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Pre-History
Bachelder, Jody. Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine (Camden: Down East Books, 2022)
Speck, Frank G. Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine. (Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-26, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pp. 165-198)
“To 1500: People of the Dawn” (Maine Historical Society, 2000-2010)
Colonial Pemaquid
Bradley, Robert L. & Helen Camp. The Forts of Maine, 1607-1945: An Archaeological and Historical Survey (Augusta: Maine Historic Preservation Commission: Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation, 1981)
Camp, Helen. Pemaquid: Lost and Found (Ancient Pemaquid Restoration, 1967)
Cartland, John Henry. History of Pemaquid Maine -Twenty Years at Pemaquid (Pemaquid Beach: L.A. Moore, 1914)
De Paoli, Neill. Life on the edge: Community and trade on the Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610—1689 [dissertation] (Durham: University of New Hampshire, 2001)
Hough, Franklin B. Papers relating to Pemaquid and parts adjacent in the present state of Maine, known as Cornwall County, when under the colony of New York, comp. from official records in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, N.Y. (Albany: Weed, Parson, 1856)
Riess, Warren C. Angel Gabriel: The Elusive Galleon (1797 House; First Edition 2001)
Town of Bristol
Averill, Phil. Woodstoves and Backhouses: Schoolhouses of Bristol, Maine, 1800-2000 (Bristol: self-published, 2001)
Dodge, Christine Huston. Vital records of old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine : including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the plantation of Monhegan; vol. 1 – births and deaths (Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1951)
Dodge, Christine Huston. Vital records of old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine : including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the plantation of Monhegan, Vol. 2 – marriages (Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1947)
Gamage, Nelson W. A Short History of South Bristol, Maine (South Bristol: Rev. Harold W. Woodbury, n.d.)
Hannah, Josh. Pemaquid Peninsula: A Midcoast Maine History (Charleston: The History Press, 2015)
Hope, Pete. “The Birth of Bristol“, Old Bristol Historical Society Newsletter, Spring 2015
Hope, Pete. Far Out to Sea: A History of the Pemaquids (Newcastle: Lincoln County News, 2015)
Hope, Pete. Two Harbors and a hill: The history of New Harbor (Bristol: self-published, n.d.)
Johnston, John. A history of the towns of Bristol and Bremen in the state of Maine, including the Pemaquid settlement (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1873)
Lewis, Ed. “Bristol’s Religious Heritage“. Talk series sponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. New Harbor Methodist Church and Round Pond Methodist Church, May 16 and June 6, 1976. Lecture.
Libby, Hilda. The Story of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse (Bristol: self-published, n.d.)
V.F. Thomas Co., “Bristol Postal History,” , updated 2021.