Scarborough Maine Real Estate History and Characteristics
Scarborough was incorporated in the middle 1600's. The
Scarborough Historical Society obtained a copy from the archives
in Boston of the Records of the Governor and Company of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England, Vol. IV - Part 1 1650 - 1660
that outlines where early settlers created the towns of Black
Point, Blew Point, Spurwincke, and Casco Bay (Spurwincke and
Casco Bay became the town of "Falmouth" in this order) in 1658.
The order continued to establish both the towns of Scarborough
and Falmouth (now Cape Elizabeth) and was signed and sealed by
the commissioners of the General Court on July the 14, 1658.
This is the excerpt from the order on the Incorporation of the
Town of Scarborough: That those places that were formerly called
Blacke Pojnt, Blew Point, Stratton´s Islands, thereto adjacent,
shall henceforth be called by ye name of Scarborough, the bounds
of which toune on the westerne side begineth where the toune of
Saco endeth, & so doth runne