Author: Sears, Albert J.,
Title: Early Families of Standish, Maine.
Description: Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, (1991). VG lg sz PB. Standish was originally named Pearson, Maine. after Captain Moses Pearson who led the company of soldiers to victory at. the siege of Louisburg. The town was settled at the time of the French and Indian Wars in the 1750s and incorporated as a town in 1784. The first US census in 1790 lists the town with 123 families with a total population of 717 people. This major new work is arranged alphabetically by male-line genealogical study of the early families of Standish up to about 1810 and occasionally into the mid-1800s with a brief introductory sketch of each family. A proprietorship map of Standish is included at the beginning.

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