Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

ONESIPHORUS PAGE⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Fishersfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 18 May 1808^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 4 September 1874.^[2] He married at Sunapee, Sullivan County, on 13 November 1828 ABIGAIL HURD CUTTS.^[3] She was born at Goshen on 27 July 1809, a daughter of Charles Cutts and his wife Abigail Hurd.^[4] She died at Newport, Sullivan County, on 21 January 1896.^[5] Onesiphorus Page Maxfield never used his first name and always went by Page. Perhaps he was not impressed by the story of the fugitive slave the Apostle Paul sent home. More likely he found "Page" easier to pronounce and for people to remember. Abigail's sisters, Thankful and Lemira, married Page's brothers, David and Nathan. Page began his married life at Fishersfield (name later changed to Newbury), but he purchased land at Goshen in 1835, and farmed there for the rest of his life.

The 1830 census reported the family of Page Maxfield at Fishersfield, consisting of a man and a woman in their 20s^[6] (Page and Abigail). The 1840 census reported the family at Goshen, consisting of a man and a woman in their 30s (Page and Abigail), a girl between 5 and 9 (Marilla), and two boys under 5 (Russell and Harvey).^[7]

Page Maxfield participated in several land transfers in Sullivan County:

• 16 March 1835, Deborah Beck of Goshen sold to Page Maxfield of Fishersfield for $210 a parcel in Goshen of 32 acres.^[8]
• 19 Dec 1836, Page Maxfield of Goshen sold to Currier Maxfield for $250 the 32 acres he had purchased from Deborah Beck. Abigail Maxfield wife of Page relinquished right of dower.^[9]
• 15 January 1839, Page Maxfield of Goshen mortgaged to Vinal Gunnison of Goshen for $600 the homestead farm formerly owned by Nathan Cutts, also a parcel in Wendell, also a parcel in Goshen, partly in Newbury.^[10]
• 25 Apr 1840, Page, Jonathan and Nathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to Hiram Sholes of Goshen for $320, a parcel in Newbury and Goshen, west end of lot #2, 50 acres.^[11]
• 1 Dec 1840, Page Maxfield of Goshen mortgaged to John Clapp of Wendell, for a promisory note of $485.75, a parcel in Goshen, homestead farm formerly of Charles Cutts late of Goshen deceased, except ¾ acre previously sold.^[12]
• 14 Sep 1846, Page Maxfield of Goshen mortgaged to Moses and Ezra Cilley of Newbury for $400 a parcel in Goshen, the farm he was living on.^[13]

Page Maxfield was affiliated with the Christian denomination, a movement opposed to denominational labels, creed, and heirarchy, which later united with Congregationalists. Page purchased a pew at the Christian chapel of Goshen on 22 October 1853.^[14]

Census records reported the Page Maxfiled household at Goshen, usually in close proximity to other family members, giving ages as follows:^[15]

In 1850 Abigail's mother, Nabby Cutts, age 74, was living with them. In 1880 widow Abigail Maxfield, 70 was living with her son Harvey, 40, his second wife Laura, 32, and his son by his first wife, Herman, 12.^[16]

The first child of Page and Abigail, Sanders, died young. Otherwise all of the children married and lived in the area, except that Harvey moved to Wisconsin some time between 1881 and 1887. Daughter Marilla died in 1856, after only eight months of marriage. Her widower, Ira Hurd, Jr., married Marilla's sister Francina in 1861.

Page Maxfield wrote his will on 27 April 1874, he died on 4 September of that year, and his will was proved on 23 September. In his will he remembered modestly his wife and surviving children:^[17]

Sullivan County Probate Records
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Page Maxfield and his wife Abigail Cutts had the following children:

1. SANDERS CARR⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 26 December 1830; d. at Newport on 21 January 1896.^[18]
2. MARILLA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 February 1833; d. at Sullivan Co. on 26 March 1856;^[19] m. at Goshen on 15 July 1855 IRA HURD Jr..^[20]
3. RUSSELL TUBBS⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 15 November 1836.
4. HARVEY PAGE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 29 May 1840.
5. FRANCINA SOPHIA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 13 June 1842; d. at Newport on 30 March 1908;^[21] m. at Goshen on 6 January 1861 IRA HURD, Jr.,^[22] b. at Sunapee on 10 March 1835, d. at Goshen on 20 October 1910.^[23]
6. MARY JANE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 11 October 1843; d. at Newport on 20 June 1923;^[24] m. at Goshen on 2 July 1862 BENJAMIN F. LEAR,^[25] b. at Goshen on 19 April 1842, d. at Goshen on 16 February 1907,^[26] child of Tobias and Margaret Lear.
7. EDITH V.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 22 June 1854;^[27] d. at Newport on 13 March 1914;^[28] m. on 24 July 1874 JOHN QUINCY A. EMERY,^[29] b. at Newbury on 31 January 1846, d. at Antrim, Hillsborough Co., on 21 February 1891.^[30]

¹State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Births to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²New Hampshire, Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, NH, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2012).
³State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index to Marriages Up to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁴Walter R. Nelson, History of Goshen, New Hampshire (Concord, NH: Evans, 1957), 399.
⁵New Hampshire, Index of Deaths to 1900.
⁶Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Fishersfield, Merrimack Co., NH, 76:245; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
⁷Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 244:23; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
⁸Deeds, 13:443; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 2012).
⁹Ibid., 31:27.
¹⁰Ibid., 24:449.
¹¹Ibid., 31:474.
¹²Ibid., 28:206.
¹³Ibid., 41:313.
¹⁴Nelson, History of Goshen, 220.
¹⁵Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 441:69A, 43; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 681:874, 643; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 850:509A, 64; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
¹⁶Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, , population (roll 768), Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, enumeration district (ED) 269, 317A, 12; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
¹⁷Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 39:442; 37:87; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 2014).
¹⁸Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, ed., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892), 192; Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:61.
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²⁰State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Vital Records: Bride's Index, 1640-1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²¹New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947; Mill Village Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2012), .
²²Nelson, History of Goshen, 411.
²³Mill Village Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave.
²⁴New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947.
²⁵New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947; Index and images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).
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²⁹Nelson, History of Goshen, 411.
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