Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

HENRY5 MAXFIELD (David4, Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Vermont about 1780 a son of David Maxfield and his wife Judith Clough. He died at Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, on 16 January 1854.[1] He married MINERVA RICHARDS. She was born about 1787 and died at Westford on 10 May 1851.[2]

Henry and Minerva probably married about 1800, as their first child was born about 1800/1 according to her age at death.

The Henry Maxfield family was reported at Georgia, Franklin County, Vermont, in the censuses of 1810 and 1820, in Milton, Chittenden County, in the censuses of 1830, 1840 and 1850. Henry and Minerva both died at Westford in the decade following 1850.

Of the persons listed here as children of Henry and Minerva, most are identified as such on their death records. Philo, Minor and Sanford are not so identified, but their early places of residence point to the possibility of being from this family, and they fit into the age and sex groupings of the early censuses. The census records for Henry Maxfield indicate persons in the following age and sex categories, which could possibly be explained as follows:[3]

1810, Georgia
male 26-44 Henry, 30
female 10-15 Minerva, 23
male 0-9 Philo, 9
male 0-9 Minor, 7
male 0-9 William, 6
female 0-9 unidentified
1820 Georgia
male 26-44 Henry, 40
female 26-44 Minerva, 33
male 10-15 Philo, 19
male 10-15 Minor, 17
male 10-15 William, 16
male 0-9 Sanford, 7
male 0-9 Rimmon, 5
male 0-9 John, 4
male 0-9 unidentified
female 0-9 Mary Ann, 0
1830, Milton
male 50-59 Henry, 50
female 40-49 Minerva, 43
male 20-29 Philo, 29
male 20-29 William, 26
male 15-19 Sanford, 17
male 15-19 Rimmon, 15
male 10-14 John, 14
female 10-14 Mary Ann, 10
female 5-9 Minerva Jane, 8
female 0-4 Eliza, 3
male 0-4 Alfred, 1
1840, Milton
male 60-69 Henry, 60
female 50-59 Minerva, 53
female 20-29 Mary Ann, 20
female 15-19 Minerva Jane, 18
female 10-14 Eliza, 13
male 10-14 Alfred, 11

Other than placing Minerva in the wrong age category in 1810, and the three teen-age boys in the wrong catgory in 1820, this information fits what we know of the family.

By 1850 Philo had moved to Ohio, Minor had moved to Virginia, and Rimmon was living at Crown Point, Essex County, New York. Sanford and John were married and living at Westford; Mary Ann, Minerva Jane and Eliza were married and living at Milton. William resided at an institution for the insane at Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont. Henry, Minerva and son Alfred were living at Milton with daughter Minerva Jane and son-in-law Alfred Coffee. The census record described Henry and Minerva, ages 70 and 60, as paupers, and Alfred, age 21, as a farmer.[4]

Henry and Minerva are buried at Brookside Cemetery, Westford.[5]

Henry Maxfield and his wife Minerva Richards had the following children:

  1. probably PHILO6 MAXFIELD b. at Vermont abt. 1800/1.
  2. probably MINOR6 MAXFIELD b. at Vermont abt. 1802/3.
  3. WILLIAM R.6 MAXFIELD b. at Vermont abt. 1803/4; d. at Westford on 9 October 1860, insane.[6]
  4. probably SANFORD P.6 MAXFIELD b. at Georgia abt. 1812/3.
  5. RIMMON6 MAXFIELD b. at Georgia on 18 February 1815.
  6. JOHN H.6 MAXFIELD b. at Georgia on 19 March 1816.
  7. MARY ANN6 MAXFIELD b. at Georgia on 23 March 1820; d. at Milton on 25 March 1899;[7] m. JOHN W. HOLMES.[8]
  8. MINERVA JANE6 MAXFIELD b. at Milton on March 1822; d. at Clinton Co., NY, on 28 January 1902;[9] m. before 1847 ALFRED W. COFFEE,[10] b. at Fairfax, Franklin Co., on November 1819, d. at Clinton Co. on 4 March 1901,[11] child of John Coffee and his wife Polly Maxfield. Minerva Jane and Alfred were second cousins. Alfred's mother was a daughter of David Maxfield, Jr.
  9. ELIZA6 MAXFIELD b. at Milton on 30 March 1827; d. at Milton on 10 January 1872;[12] m. HENRY PRENTISS.
  10. ALFRED6 MAXFIELD b. at Milton on 1 June 1829.

NOTES

1Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954, digital images of index cards, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).
2Ibid.
3Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Georgia, Franklin Co., VT, 64:290A; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population, Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, 127:76; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Milton, Chittenden Co., VT, 186:241; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Milton, Chittenden Co., VT, 541:80; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
4Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Milton, Chittenden Co., VT, 923:187A, 973; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
5Brookside Cemetery, Westford, Chittenden Co., VT, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2013).
6Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954.
7Ibid.
8Sandie Suku, to Charles A. Maxfield, Electronic mail, 26 June 2011, "Some Maxfield news," privately held.
9Wills Cemetery, Chateaugay, Franklin Co., NY, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2011), .
10Jack Billow, to Charles A. Maxfield, Letter, 31 October 2012.
11Wills Cemetery, Find a Grave.
12Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954

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Billow, Jack, to Charles A. Maxfield, Letter, 31 October 2012, Privately held .

Brookside Cemetery, Westford, Chittenden Co., VT. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2013.

Lamb, Julia Maxfield, to William Cullen Maxfield, 7 May 1903. Privately held by Jack Bilow, Plattsburg, NY 12901. Copy included with correspondence to Charles A. Maxfield, 31 October 2012.

Maxfield, Frederick Gilmore. The Family Tree. Mimeographed. prepared after 1905. Privately held by Clysta Maxfield Jones, Brookfield, MO 64628. Copy mailed to Charles A. Maxfield, 28 June 2004.

Suku, Sandie. "Some Maxfield news." Electronic mail to Charles A. Maxfield. 26 June 2011. Privately held.

United States Department of the Census. Third Census of the United States: 1810, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

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