Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

DAVID CARR⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 14 November 1803^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, on 13 May 1890.^[2] He married at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on 29 November 1827 THANKFUL HURD CUTTS.^[3] She was born at Goshen on 4 October 1804, a daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts. She died at Goshen on 8 October 1853.^[4]

Thankful's sisters, Abigail and Lemira, would later marry David's brothers, Page and Nathan.

David Carr Maxfield, the oldest of ten children of Currier Maxfield, lived with his family at Bradford to 1810. From 1812 through 1820 they lived at the neighboring town of Fishersfield (later named Newbury), Hillsborough County. Beginning in 1821 they lived at Goshen. David Maxfield was a farmer all of his life.

David Carr Maxfield participated in several property transactions in the Town of Goshen:

• 24 March 1827, Currier Maxfield sold to David C. Maxfield [amount paid left blank], land in Goshen, part of lot #8 and part of lot #12 in 7th range, 15 acres plus 102 acres.^[5]
• 22 Mar 1836, Stephen Collins of Fishersfield, Deacon, mortgaged to David C, Maxfield of Fishersfield for $300 an undivided half part of two pieces, part in Fishersfield, part in Wendell, part in Goshen, part of lot #8, 1st division of Fishersfield, part of lot #12, 7th division of 75 acre lots in Goshen, 98 acres, and on the same date Ira Collins of Deering, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, yeoman, mortgaged to David C. Maxfield of Fishersfield, gentleman, for $300, the same parcel.^[6]
• 30 Aug 1841, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to [his father and brother] Currier Maxfield and David C. Maxfield of Goshen for $600, a parcel in Goshen 75 acres, lot #7 of 1st division, 1st range, except 25 acres already sold.^[7]
• 20 July 1844, David C. Maxfield and Currier Maxfield, both of Goshen, sold to Imry Purrington of Goshen for $500, a parcel in Goshen, 75 acre lot #7, 1st division, 1st range, except 25 acres already sold. Thankful, wife of David, and Hepsibeth wife of Currier relinquished their right of dower.^[8]

Thankful died on 8 October 1853, leaving David with children at home ages 19, 12 and 10. The two oldest children had already married.

North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, NH
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The family soon moved west to the new territory of Minnesota. Organized as a territory in 1849, much of southern Minnesota was opened to settlement by a treaty of 1851, and Minnesota became a state in 1858. Daughter Orisa and her husband John Brown moved to Minnesota in 1855.^[9] By 1860 daughter Alzina and her husband Bela Babb, and widower David Maxfield and the remaining children, had settled at Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota. By 1870 David, Alzina, and the remaining children had settled at Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Alzina died in 1872, and her widower Bela Babb soon married his sister-in-law Ruth Maxfield. The family continued to be close throughtout David's life.

Census records for this family, in 1830 at Fishersfield and in 1840 at Goshen, give numbers in various categories of sex and age, which can be explained as follows:^[10]

The 1850 census reported the family at Goshen, separated by only one household from David's father Currier. The family consisted of David, 50, farmer, Thankful, 48, Elzina, 17, Loren, 9, George, 7, John H. Brown (son-in-law) 24, farmer, and Orisa Brown, 22.^[11] Ruth, age 20, was at Manchester, Hillsborough County, in a household of many woman,^[12] probably working in a mill.

The 1860 census reported this family at Eagle Creek Township, Scott County, Minnesota (Shakopee Post Office), consisting of David, 57, farmer, Ruth, 30, Lauren, 20, George 17, attending school, and Emiline, Ruth's daughter out of wedlock, 5.^[13] The next household on the census belonged to Bela and Alzina Babb. In 1865 David Maxfield was still in the same township, listed next to the Babbs, the household consisting of David, George, Ruth and Emma[line].^[14]

The 1870 census reported this family at Milo Township, Mille Lakes County (Princeton Post Office), again listed next to the Babb family. Ruth was listed as the head of household, with David and Emiline.^[15]

In 1875 widower David Maxfield, 72, was living with his recently widowed son-in-law Bela Babb, and six children, at Greenbush, Mille Lacs County.^[16] Ruth, 43, was still in Milo Township, residing in the household of her son-in-law Elijah Biddle.^[17]

The 1880 census reported David Maxfield, 76, no occupation, living at Wilmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, with son-in-law John H. Brown, 56, district judge, David's daughter Orissa Brown, 51, and three grandchildren, Dorrie Brown, 21, teacher, Jennie, 19, at school, and Mattie, 17, teacher.^[18] In 1885 David Maxfield was still at Wilmar with J. H. and Mrs. Brown and their daughter Jenine, age 24.^[19]

David Carr Maxfield and his wife Thankful Hurd Cutts had the following children:

1. ORISA MARGARET⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 March 1829;^[20] d. on 15 August 1915;^[21] m. at Manchester on 5 February 1850 JOHN HARRISON BROWN,^[22] b. at Manchester on 1 May 1824, d. on 20 January 1890.^[23]
2. ALZINA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 30 October 1832; d. on 13 December 1872; m. at Goshen on 4 September 1851 BELA BABB,^[24] b. at Goshen on 17 March 1832, d. at Greenbush, Roseau Co., MN on 27 May 1913.^[25]
3. RUTH H.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 September 1834.
4. MARY JANE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 4 August 1837; d. on 3 August 1838.^[26]
5. LAUREN MANLEY⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 6 November 1840.
6. GEORGE SIDNEY⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 August 1843.

¹State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Births to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 8:17.
³State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index to Marriages Up to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT; "Marriages: Town of Goshen, New Hampshire," New England Historic Genealogical Register, 124 (1970): 61.
⁴North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2012); State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Deaths to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁵Deeds, 2:544; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 2012).
⁶Ibid., 33:41-42.
⁷Ibid., 30:327.
⁸Ibid., 38:470.
⁹"Progressive Men of Minnesota." Database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013); extracted from Marion Daniel Shutter, Progressive Men of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Journal, 1897), 247.
¹⁰Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Fishersfield, Merrimack Co., NH, 76:245; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 244:23; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
¹¹Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 441:68A, 24; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
¹²Ibid., Manchester, Hillsboro Co., NH, 432:37B, 1597.
¹³Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Eagle Creek, Scott Co., MN, 574:693, 783; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
¹⁴Minnesota 1865 State Census, population, Eagle Creek, Scott Co., MN; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.
¹⁵Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Milo, Mille Lacs Co., MN, 3, 18; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
¹⁶Minnesota 1875 State Census, population, Greenbush, Mille Lacs Co., MN, 1049, 3; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.
¹⁷Ibid., Milo, Mille Lacs Co., MN, 1090, 32.
¹⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population (roll 624), Willmar, Kandiyohi Co., MN, enumeration district (ED) 47, 86A, 5; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
¹⁹Minnesota 1885 State Census, population, Willmar, Kandiyohi Co., MN, 551, 107; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.
²⁰Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, ed., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892), 191.
²¹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
²²State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Vital Records: Bride's Index, 1640-1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²³Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
²⁴Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America, 191; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
²⁵Benson City Cemetery, Benson, Swift Co., MN, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2011), .
²⁶Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America, 191; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.

Benson City Cemetery, Benson, Swift Co., MN. Database. Find a Grave. findagrave.com : 2011.

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

Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, ed. Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892.

"Marriages: Town of Goshen, New Hampshire." New England Historic Genealogical Register 124 (1970): 60-63.

Minnesota 1865 State Census, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013. Database: Minnesota, Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905. Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.

Minnesota 1875 State Census, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013. Database: Minnesota, Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905. Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.

Minnesota 1885 State Census, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013. Database: Minnesota, Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905. Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN.

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________. Vital Records: Bride's Index, 1640-1900. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

________. Index of Deaths to 1900. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

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

"Progressive Men of Minnesota." Database. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013. Extracted from Marion Daniel Shutter, Progressive Men of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Journal, 1897.

Sullivan County Registry of Deeds. "Land Records." Digital images. Sullivan County Registry of Deeds. nhdeeds.com/sullivan : 2012.

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

________. Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

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

________. Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Wright, Elizabeth. "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 6:52-56; 7:20-24, 42-47, 61-71, 87-96; 8:15-22.