Bingham Penobscot Purchase

Bingham's Penobscot Purchase 1791-1797   

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Note that the townships listed here are limited to the ones that are or were part of Hancock County.  More townships of Bingham's Penobscot Purchase are part of Penobscot and Washington counties.  You may also be interested and another large track of land that was Bingham's Kennebec Purchase in Franklin and Somerset counties.

T2 ND Northern half of T2 ND became Grand Falls Plantation in 1840 and was later Grand Falls Township. Grand Falls was ceded to Penobscot County in 1858
T3 ND Unorganized as of 2009
T4 ND Unorganized as of 2009
T7 SD Unorganized as of 2009
Contains
Goodwin Siding - populated place
Parts were annexed by the towns of
Gouldsboro and Sullivan
T8 SD Unorganized as of 2009
Also known as Fletchers Landing or Central Hancock
Part were used to form the towns of Franklin and Hancock
T9 SD Parts were annexed by the town of Franklin
T10 SD Parts were annexed by the town of Franklin
T14 MD Incorporated in January 29, 1833 as Waltham
T15 MD Incorporated in 1837 as Eastbrook
T16 MD Unorganized as of 2009
T20 MD Organized 1822 as Mariaville Plantation Incorporated 1823 as Mariaville
T21 MD
 
Organized 1895 as Plantation No. 21; name changed to Osborn Plantation in 1923 and was Incorporated in 1975 as Osborn
T22 MD Unorganized as of 2009
Contains Steep Landing -  a populated place
T26 MD Organized 1822 as Mariaville Plantation and in 1831 as Amherst
T27 MD Organized 1822 as Plantation No. 27 Incorporated 1831 as Hampton; name changed to Aurora in 1833
T28 MD Incorporated as Amherst February 5, 1831
T32 MD Unorganized as of 2009
Contains
Grand Falls and Myra village
T33 MD organized October 26, 1840 as Great Pond Plantation
T34 MD Unorganized as of 2009
T35 MD Unorganized as of 2009
T39 MD Unorganized as of 2009
T40 MD Unorganized as of 2009
T41 MD Unorganized as of 2009

Bingham's Penobscot Purchase