Other people in Madawaska and Aroostook Co.

This page contains links to information about individuals who were early settlers of the region. Some of the information has been gathered by me, others has been sent in by visitors to the web site.

Please also be sure to check out the links on the front page to my own family lines.

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• John Baker Among the first "Yankee" lumbermen to settle in Madawaska, leader of the Americans in the valley and agitator against British authority in the region
• The Burleigh Family of Linneus. Includes Edwin C. Burleigh, b. in Linneus, Gov.of Maine 1889-1892, his parents and other relatives
• Norman Campbell and Matilda Wiles, of what is now Fort Kent.
• Cantin Dionne, an early settler in Madawaska originally from Canada (Quebec)
• Thomas Hobart and his family
• James Holmes, moved in 1833 from Nova Scotia to Maine, then sometime between 1844 and 1850 to Salmon Brook, Aroostook Co.
• François Mazzerole
• Captain Stover Rines of Orono, Head of the Maine Militia stationed at the Block House at the mouth of the Fish River in 1839-1840
• Jesse Wheelock Another of the first "Yankees" to settle in Madawaska

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Last revised 25 May 2006