York Historical Records

The York Historical Records page represents a collaboration between Lynn Osgood, York’s current Town Clerk, and James Kences, Town Historian. Both of us believe that access to the town records should be available to everyone seeking the knowledge. Today’s technology allows us to share access to the earliest of the existing records housed at town hall.  

York Town Records 1724-1842

York Town Records 1724-1842

Searchable Spreadsheets for York Record Books.  

Volume 1, completely digitized in 2022, became available to researchers and anyone interested in the town’s history.  While Volume 1 was a compendium without underlying organization, nineteenth century York historian Nathaniel Grant Marshall, who was Town Clerk at the time, transcribed the pages in chronological order, making it possible to create an abstract of the contents.  Volume 1 is predominantly land grants embracing the period from the mid seventeenth century to the first decades of the eighteenth century.  Volume 1 is followed by additional abstracts for a total of eight volumes, to 1925. 

Similar projects will be developed to provide profiles of the town from the seventeenth to the first decade of the twentieth century. 

The abstracts of the different volumes are a deeper dimension to what appears in the pages of the town books, to establish the identities of inhabitants living in York throughout the long town history.  

The maps below are intended to provide orientation to and complement the included volumes.

Alcocks Neck

Alcocks Neck

York Corner & Vicinity

York Corner and Vicinity

Lower Town

Lower Town

York Village & Vicinity

York Village and Vicinity

1794 Daniel Sewall Map

1794 Daniel Sewall Map

1857 Cadastral Map

1857 Cadastral Map

South Side and Raynes Neck

South Side and Raynes Neck

Family Cemetery Plots

cemetery