Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

SAMUEL5 MAXFIELD (Samuel4, Michael3, John2-1) was born at Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 3 October 1793[1] a son of Samuel Maxfield and his wife Abigail Gilman. He died at Gilmanton on 29 October 1860.[2] He married at Upper Gilmanton Parish (later Belmont), Gilmanton on 4 January 1816 BETSEY HUNTOON.[3] She was born at Gilmanton on 8 August 1792, a daughter of Joshua Huntoon and Mary C. Winslow. She died on 5 December 1844.[4]

Samuel and Betsey Maxfield lived and farmed in Gilmanton all their lives, in the Upper Gilmanton Parish, which was later incorporated as Belmont. The 1830 and 1840 censuses reported the family there, with the numbers in various age and sex categories, which could be explained as follows:[5]

1830
male 30-39 Samuel, 36
female 30-39 Betsey, 37
male 10-14 Daniel, 14
male 10-14 Arthur, 11
male 5-9 Samuel
female 5-9 Susan, 9
female 0-4 Elizabeth, 3
1840
male 40-49 Samuel, 46
female 40-49 Betsey, 47
male 20-29 Daniel, 24
male 20-29 Arthur, 21
male 15-19 Samuel
female 15-19 Susan, 19
female 10-14 Elizabeth, 13
female 5-9 Mary Ann, 8

Betsey (Huntoon) Maxfield died on 5 December 1844 and is buried at South Road Cemetery, Belmont.[6] Daniel had married about 1839/40, Susan married in 1841, Arthur married in 1845, Elizabeth married in 1848. The 1850 census found widower Samuel Maxfield living with son Daniel and his family at Gilmanton, and daughter Mary Ann with her brother Arthur and family at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Susan and her husband, Andrew Moody, lived at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth and her husband Franklin Skinner may have already moved to Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, where they were reported in the 1860 census. With the exception of Daniel, who was farming at Gilmanton, all of the other sons and sons-in-law had moved to mill towns and were working in textile mills.

The 1860 census (1 June) again reported Samuel Maxfield with his son at Gilmanton. Samuel died there on 20 October 1860 and is buried at South Road Cemetery, Belmont.[7]


South Road Cemetery, Belmont, NH
from findagrave.com
Isaiah was a grandson, son of Daniel

Samuel Maxfield and his wife Betsey Huntoon had the following children:

  1. DANIEL HUNTOON6 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 28 April 1816.
  2. ARTHUR LIVERMORE6 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 31 August 1818.
  3. SAMUEL WINKLEY6 MAXFIELD[8] b. probably bet. 1820 and 1825. Living implied by 1830 and 1840 censuses. No further record.
  4. SUSAN H.6 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 12 January 1821;[9] d. at Lowell on 13 November 1855;[10] m. at Manchester, Hillsborough Co., NH, on 15 October 1841 ANDREW MOODY,[11] b. at Massachusetts abt. 1815/6.
  5. ELIZABETH6 MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire about 1826/7;[12] m. at Chicopee on 19 February 1848 FRANKLIN SKINNER,[13] b. at Connecticut abt. 1826/7. The 1860 census reported this family at Milledgeville where Franklin was superintendent of a mill.[14]
  6. MARY ANN6 MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire abt. 1831/2;[15] d. on 1872;[16] m. at Concord, Merrimack Co., NH, on 19 January 1871 WILLIAM H. PAGE.[17]

NOTES

1South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap Co., NH, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2012); George Hiram Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family (Boston: Frank Wood, Printer, 1903), 614; digital images, Library of Congress, Internet Archive (archive.org : accessed 2014.
2Ibid.
3State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index to Marriages Up to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
4South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap Co., NH, Find a Grave; Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
5Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Gilmanton, Strafford Co., NH, 78:267; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Gilmanton, Strafford Co., NH, 246:399; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
6South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap Co., NH, Find a Grave.
7Ibid.
8Listed as a child of this family in Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
9Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
10Jay and Delene Holbrook, "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012), Lowell; Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts.
11State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Vital Records: Bride's Index, 1640-1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
12Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., GA, 111:132, 218; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2014).
13"Marriages and Deaths in the Springfield Republican, 1848-1849," database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed ); citing p. 2657.
141860 Census, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., GA, 111:132, 218.
15Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Chicopee, Hampden Co., MA, 319:147B, 2371; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
16Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
17New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947; Index and images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, NH, about 1952.

Greeley, George Hiram. Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family. Boston: Frank Wood, Printer, 1903. Digital images. Library of Congress. Internet Archive. archive.org : 2014.

Holbrook, Jay and Delene. "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records." Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

"Marriages and Deaths in the Springfield Republican, 1848-1849." Database. New England Historic Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org.

New Hampshire, State of. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH. Vital Records: Bride's Index, 1640-1900. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

________. Index to Marriages Up to 1900. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

________. New Hampshire. Marriage Records, 1637-1947. Index and images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap Co., NH. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2012.

United States Department of the Census. Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

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