Everything about Cornwall County New York totally explained
Cornwall County was a county of the former
Province of New York, established on
1665-09-05 from of land that had been granted to the Duke of York in modern
Maine. As established, the grant ran all the way from the
St. Lawrence River to the
Atlantic Ocean,between the
Kennebec and
St. Croix rivers, and produced what today is most of Aroostook, Piscataquis, Washington, Hancock, Penobscot, Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, Kennebec, Somerset, and Sagadahoc Counties.
On
1673-10-07, of this grant along the border with then existing Massachusetts was partitioned to form
Devonshire, Massachusetts. The remainder of this grant was lost to the
Abnaki Indians in a war in the Autumn of 1675.
Cornwall County was recreated on
November 1,
1683, conforming to the original grant, still part of New York.
Cornwall County was transferred from New England to
Massachusetts in 1692 and called
Yorkshire. Much of this region became part of
Maine when that state was admitted in 1820.
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