Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

LEVI⁵ MAXFIELD (David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Vermont about 1785 a son of David Maxfield and his wife Judith Clough. He died sometime between 1815 and 1870. He married LAURA RICHMOND. She was born at Canada about 1789/90 and died after 1870.

Levi Maxfield was listed as a child of David and Judith in Frederick Gilmore Maxfield's Family Tree,^[1] but was omitted from the list in Julia (Maxfield) Lamb's letter.^[2] Levi's place of residence, and property transactions with other members of the family, support the claim that he belonged in this family.

The 1810 census placed Levi's age between 16 and 25, which would give him a birth year of 1785-1794. In the 1800 census in his father's household, he also appeared to be in the 16-25 age group. I therefore place him at the upper end of that age group in 1810, or born about 1785. As their first known child was born about 1807/8, we can estimate their marriage to have been about 1806. Laura's place of birth, and approximate year, are derived from the 1870 census.

The basic outline of this family comes from a biographical article on son-in-law John Glines found in Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Mich^[3]

[John W. Glines] was married in New York to Judah Maxfield, a daughter of Levi Maxfield. Her father was in the War of 1812, in which he served as a Corporal. Her mother, Laura (Richmond) Maxfield, was a native of Canada. The children of this family were Levi, Thomas, Leonard, Judah and Fannie. Mr Maxwell was a farmer, and both he and his wife died in New York.

Levi Maxfield participated in the following property transfers at Georgia, Franklin County, Vermont:

• 18 October 1806, Obadiah Maxfield of Milton, Chittenden County, sold to Levi Maxfield of Georgia for $100, land in Georgia.^[4]
• 19 July 1811, Levi Maxfield of Georgia sold to Seth Castle for $100, land in Georgia. ^[5]
• 14 January 1812, Seth Castle sold to Levi Maxfield for $200, land in Georgia.^[6]
• 29 May 1812, Levi Maxfield of Georgia sold to Bohan Shepard of Georgia for $16.78, land in Georgia.^[7]
• 7 January 1814, Levi Maxfield of Georgia sold to Joel Fairchild and Philo Fairchild of Georgia for $200, land in Georgia.^[8]

The 1810 census reported Levi Maxfield at Georgia, head of a household consisting of a man and a woman between 16 and 25, and two boys under ten.^[9] This can be easily explained as Levi and Laura Maxfield and their first two sons, Leonard and Levi.

Levi Maxfield fought in the War of 1812. A Private, he enlisted on 26 March 1813, and was in Captain Phineas Williams' Company for a payroll dated 31 May 1813.^[10]

Levi Maxfield was "warned out" of Milton on 3 April 1815.^[11] That is, he was told to leave because he did not have any visible means of support.

That "warning" is the last record I have found of Levi Maxfield. Wife Laura reappeared in the 1870 census living with her son Leonard at Hartland Township, Livingston County, Michigan. She was reported to be 80 years old, born at Vermont, keeping house. That is the last record I have found of her.^[12]

The children of this family were moving on. Judith married about 1826 and moved with her husband to Hartland Township, where she died in 1844. Leonard and Levi married early in the 1830s, Thomas married in 1840 in Ohio. Levi had moved to Hartland Township by 1840, Thomas had joined him there by 1850. Leonard was reported at Saint Lawrence County, New York in the 1840 Census, at Plymouth, Wayne County, Michigan in 1850. James, first married in 1848 at Wayne County, was also at Plymouth by 1850. Leonard was also at Hartland by 1870.

Levi Maxfield and his wife Laura Richmond had the following children:

1. LEONARD⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont abt. 1807/8.
2. LEVI⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont on 1808.
3. JUDITH⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont on 1811; d. at Hartland on 7 September 1844;^[13] m. abt. 1826 JOHN GLINES, b. at Meredith, Strafford Co., NH, on 7 May 1801, d. at Hartland on 24 September 1868.^[14] He m. (2) on 5 February 1846 CYNTHIA ORMSBY.^[15] John and Judith had a son, George William Glines, who married his first cousin, Aura Jane Maxfield, daughter of Levi Maxfield and Caroline Campbell.
4. THOMAS S.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont abt. 1815.
5. FANNIE⁶ MAXFIELD bur. West Highland Cemetery, Highland, MI.^[16]
6. possibly JAMES EMERY⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont on December 1825.

¹Frederick Gilmore Maxfield, The Family Tree; mimeographed prepared after 1905, supplied by Clysta Maxfield Jones, Brookfield, MO 64628, to Charles A. Maxfield, 28 June 2004.
²Julia Maxfield Lamb, to William Cullen Maxfield, 7 May 1903; held in by Jack Bilow, Plattsburg, NY 12901. copy included with correspondence to Charles A. Maxfield, 31 October 2012.
³Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Mich: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States and governors of the state. (Chicago, IL: Chapman Bros., 1891), 369; digital images, Ancestry, (ancestry.com : accessed 2013; George W. Glines.
⁴Town of Georgia, VT, Deeds, 3:280; Georgia Town Clerk, Georgia, Franklin Co., VT.
⁵Ibid., 4:159.
⁶Ibid., 4:229.
⁷Ibid., 4:191.
⁸Ibid., 4:229.
⁹Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Georgia, Franklin Co., VT, 64:293; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
¹⁰Byron N. Clark, A List of Pensioners of the War of 1812 [Vermont Claimants]. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969), 123; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013.
¹¹Aldin M. Rollins, Vermont Warnings Out: Vol. 1: Northern Vermont (Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1995), 140.
¹²Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Hartland, Livingston Co., MI, 687:131A, 174; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
¹³West Highland Cemetery, Highland, Oakland Co., MI, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2012).
¹⁴Ibid.
¹⁵Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Mich, 369.
¹⁶West Highland Cemetery, Find a Grave.

Clark, Byron N. A List of Pensioners of the War of 1812 [Vermont Claimants]. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Georgia, Vermont, Town of. Deeds. Georgia Town Clerk, Georgia, Franklin Co., VT.

Lamb, Julia Maxfield. to William Cullen Maxfield, Letter, 7 May 1903, Privately held by Jack Bilow, Plattsburg, NY 12901.

Maxfield, Frederick Gilmore. The Family Tree. Privately held by Clysta Maxfield Jones, Brookfield, MO 64628. Copy sent to Charles A. Maxfield, 28 June 2004.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Mich: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States and governors of the state. Chicago, IL: Chapman Bros., 1891. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Rollins, Aldin M. Vermont Warnings Out: Vol. 1: Northern Vermont. Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1995.

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

________. Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

West Highland Cemetery, Highland, Oakland Co., MI. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2012.