The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder is a wonderful resource for Maine researchers.  Volumes I-VIII are online at Google Books.

 Click on each Volume link to see a full table of contents.  Notes below are for my own research and are by no means complete.  If you want to include references to other subjects for your research, write a comment to this posting. 

Volume I

Volume II

Berwick Soldiers 1740 – Cemetery Inscriptions Berwick – Col Alex Rigby – Sanford Marriages – Small Pox – Garrisons 1711 – Maine prior to 1620

Volume III

Scarborough Records and Historical Sketches - Underhill’s description of Maine 1637 – Indian deed Saco River to Kennebunk River 1664 – Records Portland and North Yarmouth – Embargo Sandford 1808 – Vaughn Memorial -  Indian truce 1693 – Seperation movement 1792 – Cape Elizabeth Records – Historical sketches of kittery – Merrill Family -  John Bray of Kittery – Petition of York and Wells 1705 -

Volume IV

Falmouth a sketch – John Bray of Kittery – Scarborough Records – Kittery a Sketch – Alfred Records – York County Gleanings – Eastern Claims -  Lafayette in Maine – Maxwells of Wells – Cutts Family a sketch

Volume V

Biddeford Records – Tories in 1775 – Eastern Claims – Scarborough Records – Standish Records

Volume VI

Eastern Claims, Biddeford Records, Scarborough Record – Indians at Cuncheco 1676 – Standish Records

Volume VII

Biddeford Records – Eastern Claims – Scarborough Records – Indians at Wells 1702 – Kittery Records – Weare Family – Barrows Family

Volume VIII

Alfred Records – Eastern Claims – Indian Relics in Maine – Indian Troubles – Kittery records – Pepperell Farms – Patriotic Women – Waterborough Soldiers

Early York County Deed Books are online

Researching a deed in York County is pretty easy from 1960-the present.  For Kennebunkport, Wells, Ogunquit, Start with the appraisal database Vision Appraisal Database  to learn the street address of the house or the owners name, when they bought it and to see a picture of the house.   Then go to the York County Registry of Deeds and sign up for a free account.  Read the deeds associated with the names you found on the appraisal database until you find the correct deed.  It will refer to a previous deed.  Deeds are online only back as far as 1960 but you can go to the York County Registry of Deeds in the Alfred Courthouse Alfred, Maine to see the rest, all the way back to the earliest deeds.   Google Books has early York Deeds online.

Book I 1642-1666     Book II 1666-1676     Book III 1676-1684     Book IV 1684-1699     Book V 1680-1699     Book VI 1687-1703    Book VII 1703-1713     Book VIII 1685-1716     Book IX 1717-1720     Book X 1719-1722     Book XI 1722-1726     Book XII Part 1     Book XII Part 2     Book XIII     Book XIV     Book XV     Book XVI     Book XVII     Book XVIII 1736-1737 

1688 Oct 11 -  Bussey and Barrow - Barrow may actuallyhave  been Barrett.  (see 1689).  A letter dated Oct 16, 1688, written by John Allyn to Gov Andros, refers to an attack at Cape Porpoise that took place on Oct 11.

• 1689  Apr  -  Attack at Stage Island Fort.  John Barrett was killed.  An Indian attack on Cape Porpoise is described in a desparate letter from Wells   “they came to Cape-Porpus burnt a house begun to be Garrisoned, belonging to Nicho Moorey slew one young man: uiz: John Barrett (whose father and two Brothers, were killed by sum Indians as is supposed, ye last fall)”

1703   -  Stephen Harding and his family fled their home in time to save themselves from an Indian attack.  The Durrell family upriver were not so fortunate.  Philip Durrell’s wife and 4 children were kidnapped while he was away from home.  Mrs. Durrell pursuaded the Indians to let her return home with her one infant son.  She was kidnapped again in 1726 and she , her daughter and infant grandaughter were all killed. 

1713   -  William Larrabee’s family was killed at his home near Butler’s Rock.

1723   -  The Old Garrison House now stands in Cape Porpoise at the site of the earlier Major’s Garrison.  White-haired Mr. Joseph Baily was scalped and killed by Indians there in October of 1723.   During the same month, two men from Huff’s Garrison, Fitz Henry and Bartow, being on Vaughn’s Island for wood, were surprised and wounded by three Indians.  The Indians tortured the two men, trying to get them to reveal the number of men at the garrison.  The Indians killed them and threw their bodies into a creek on the island which still bears the name Fitz Henry’s Ditch.  Also in 1723, Thirty women and children were sheltered at Harding’s Garrison when Chief  WaWa of Great Hill, and his men unsucessfully attacked. 

1724 Mar   -   Felt, Wormwood and Lewis were killed by Indians while loading lumber onto a vessel anchored on the Kennebunk River.  All three were killed with bullets.  Sergeant Smith, of the Cape Porpoise fort, was killed by Indians on March 23, 1724.  Bradbury says he was killed at the fort on Stage Island but the new fort had already been built.  Others say Smith was killed on Vaughn’s Island.

1725  -  Mr. Huff’s daughter was milking his cow near Huff’s garrison when she was attacked by an Indian.  She knocked him down with her milk pail and made her escape to the house.  The same year, a boy was sent to Trott’s Island to retreive his father’s cow.  When he didn’t return another son was sent and then a third.  None of the boys ever returned.  The next morning their heads were discovered elevated on poles and seven Indians were tracked from Trott’s Island.  A man was also killed by Indians at Goff’s Brook in 1725.

Grist Mill Lot

Reynolds was given a 200 acres lot by the Court for running a ferry across the Kennebunk River

1675 Apr 12 Rishworth to John Reynolds Certificate to father’s estate

1684 Nov 4 Son John had inherited.

1687 Jan 2 John Rennals sold to Nich Moorey a 60A  lot on Long creek aka Mast cove oppisite Gillams point.  Moorey’s lot ran 20 poles upstream from the creek’s mouth and 60 poles downstream.

Book VI Folio 49 John Rennels to  Nicholas Moorey Jan 2, 1687
In the town book in 1688/9 Nicholas Morey has a mill on land that ajoins that of Rennals.
1701 Oct 2 Moorey sold his lot to Storer, Hill and Batson 60A at Long Creek or Mast Cove bot of John Reynolds.

October 2, 1701

Cape Porpoise was deserted more than once. Upon the settlers return the town reassigned lots in 1720 to those who could prove ownership. Book XI Folio 205

This new lot assignmet shifts the lot from both sides of Mast Cove to the land between Mast Cove and Bass Cove and adds 40 acres. Note the location of the known mills

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1725 Mar 12 Samuel Hill to John Storer my son mill privilidges at Long Creek (and land at Kennebunk River land at Bass Cove T19) lot then shared by just Batson and Storer

1725 Dec 6 Widow and heirs of Batson to Dependence Littlefield Son in-law. Dower rightes in Mill is occupation of said Dependence

Thomas Perkins eventually won the grist mill land because of a mortgage gone bad that led to a court dispute.