Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

JONATHAN CARR⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 17 February 1809^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, on 2 September 1890.^[2] He first married at Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on 2 July 1829 JUDITH CHENEY.^[3] She was born at Goshen, Sullivan County, on 5 June 1805 and died near Evansville, Rock County, Wisconsin, on 6 April 1846.^[4] He second married at Evansville on 10 July 1847 ANNA (________) BAKER.^[5] She was born at Pennsylvania on 6 July 1801 and died at Plover on 13 April 1873.^[6] He third married at Lind, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, on 30 April 1874 SARAH (TAGGART) JAMES.^[7] She was born at New York on 30 March 1817, a daughter of Robert D. and Hannah Taggart. She died at Plover on 19 September 1885.^[8] He fourth married at Portage County on 13 December 1888 SARAH L. (________) CLENDERMING.^[9] She was born at New York about 1824/5 and died at Stevens Point, Portage County, on 30 July 1899.^[10]

Although Jonathan's birth was recorded at Fishersfield, later called Newbury, Hillsborough County, he may have been born at Bradford. His family of origin moved in time from Bradford to Fishersfield to Goshen. Jonathan was the fourth of nine children.

Jonathan Maxfield participated in a number of property transfers and mortgages in Sullivan County:

• 23 December 1834, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to Isaac Mercer of Wendell, Sullivan County, for $590, 2 parcels, one in Wendell and one in Goshen, of 30 acres and 20 acres. Mercer gave to Maxfield promissory notes, which were paid off on 19 December 1838.^[11]
• 6 February 1835, Edmund H. Chandler of Fishersfield sold to Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen for $500, a parcel in Goshen, 75 acres, lot #7, 1st division, 1st range. Maxfield then mortaged the property to Chandler, Maxfield to pay Chandler over seven years.^[12]
• 3 October 1836, Benjamin and Charlotte Mercer, and Jonathan and Judith Maxfield, of Goshen, granted by quitclaim deed to Reuben and Mehitable E. Cutts, Reuben and Abigail C. Havens, of Newport, Sullivan County, for $500, 42 acres of land and buildings in Wendell formerly belonging to Richard Cheney late of Newport, deceased, reserving the widow's dower to Elizabeth Cheney, and access to buildings and some land to themselves.^[13]
• 1 January 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen mortgaged to Nathaniel Chandler of Newbury for $400, the property he had previously purchased from and mortgaged to Edmund Chandler. Discharged 30 August 1841.^[14]
• 18 Apr 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to Benjamin Mercer of Goshen for $190, his interest in land in Wendell and Newport, part of the Richard Cheney estate, which they held jointly.^[15]
• 20 April 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to William Gross of Goshen for $550, a parcel of 75 acres deeded to him by Edmund Chandler, except for burial ground. William Gross sold this land back to Jonathan Maxfield for $550 on 6 October 1837.^[16]
• 22 March 1839, Jonathan C. Maxfield and Judith Maxfield of Goshen sold to Eleazer Wells of Newport for $75, the undivided fourth part of all the rights of dower of Elizabeth Cheney of the farm lately owned and occupied by her late husband Richard Cheney, late of Newport, deceased, now Elizabeth Wells, except that portion sold to Benjamin Mercer of Goshen.^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• April 1841, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to Ezra Purrington of Goshen for $200, a parcel in Goshen, 25 acres, part of lot #7 1st division 1st range.^[19]

Jonathan C. Maxfield was a farmer all his life. He and Judith had five children, three of whom survived childhood. The 1840 census reported the Jonathan Maxfield family at Goshen, consisting of a man and a woman in their 30s (Jonathan 31, Judith 34), a boy between 10 and 14 (Almon 10), and a boy and a girl under 5 (Electa 2, Leander 1).^[20]

The Jonathan Maxfield family moved West, to Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1844, according to Wright and French.^[21] However, they had sold their land in Goshen in August 1841. On 23 June 1842 the New Hampshire state legislature removed Jonathan Maxfield from the office of Lieutenant in the light infantry of the 31st regiment of the state militia, stating he had moved away and neglected to resign.^[22] So their westward move may have been between April 1841 and June 1842.

Wisconsin opened up to settlement following the Black Hawk War of 1832. It became a Territory in 1836 and a state in 1848. Jonathan and Judith and family first settled in Rock County, in southern Wisconsin. Judith died their in 1846. Fifteen months later Jonathan remarried. Jonathan and his new wife, Mrs. Ann Baker, each brought three children into their combined household. They moved to Portage County, and enjoyed twenty-two years of marriage before Ann died. A year after her death, Jonathan married Sarah (Taggart) James. After eleven years of marriage she died. Three years later, at age 79, Jonathan married his fourth wife, Mrs. Sarah Clenderming, age 63. Jonathan died two years later; Sarah lived another nine years after his death.

The 1850 census reported the blended family of Jonathan and Ann at the Town of Union, Rock County, as follows:^[23]

The 1860 census reported Jonathan and Ann at Stockton, Portage County. All of the children had left home except William, who was mistakenly recorded as William Maxfield.^[24] Electa married in 1855 and lived in Plover. Almon was living with his sister,^[25] and would marry the following year. Leander had found his way to Eagle Valley Township, Carson County, Utah, where he worked as a miner.^[26] Jonathan and Ann were reported at Stockton in the 1870 census,^[27] and Jonathan and Sarah were there in 1880.^[28]

Leander Maxfield disappeared from the records until he registered to vote at Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, on 6 October 1890. He described himself as a carpenter, 52 years old.^[29] On 11 July 1896 he married at Bisbee, Mrs. Mary Ann Walker, child of Francis Hury. He was 57, she 42.^[30] The 1900 census reported them at Bisbee:^[31]

The census indicated they had been married four years.

Leander and Mary Ann married again, at Bisbee, on 17 July 1902.^[32] Perhaps they had gotten divorced in between?

Jonathan Carr Maxfield and his first wife Judith Cheney had the following children:

1. ALMON⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 5 November 1829.
2. ELMINA⁶ MAXFIELD b. on 5 August 1832; d. on 8 September 1835.^[33]
3. ELECTA ELIZABETH⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire on 27 July 1837; d. at Plover on 7 July 1917; m. (1) at Plover on 31 July 1855 JACOB HARBAUGH,^[34] b. at Pennsylvania abt. 1830/1,^[35] d. on 2 February 1866;^[36] m. (2) at Plover on 26 November 1868 DAVID DANFORTH, b. on 1 March 1815, d. on 5 March 1882;^[37] m. (3) abt. 1891/2 JOHN PATTERSON, b. at Maine on April 1835;^[38] he m. (1) MARTHA W. ________.
4. LEANDER⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire on 25 July 1838;^[39] d. at Cochise Co. on 5 July 1909;^[40] m. at Bisbee on 9 July 1896^[41] and again at Bisbee on 17 July 1902 MARY ANN (HURY) WALKER,^[42] b. at Ireland on 10 February 1853, d. at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., CA, on 10 April 1916, child of Francis Hury.^[43]
5. JONATHAN⁶ MAXFIELD b. on 18 November 1840; d. on 5 December 1840.^[44]

¹State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Births to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²Morrill Cemetery, Arnot, Portage Co., WI, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2013).
³State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index to Marriages Up to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁴French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, NH, about 1952.
⁵Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:61.
⁶Morrill Cemetery, Arnot, Portage Co., WI, Find a Grave.
⁷"Wisconsin Marriages. 1836-1930," Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2011), .
⁸Morrill Cemetery, Arnot, Portage Co., WI, Find a Grave.
⁹Wisconsin Historical Society, "Wisconsin Genealogy Index," database, Wisconsin Historical Society (www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/ : accessed 2011), .
¹⁰Ibid.; "Badger News in Brief," Milwaukee Journal, 1 August 1899; 19th Century U. S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 2014). p. 2; "Mrs. Benjamin Goldberg Dead," Milwaukee Sentinel, 1 August 1899; 19th Century Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 2014). p. 10.
¹¹Deeds, 13:254; 14:86; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 2012).
¹²Ibid., 13:336; 14:110.
¹³Ibid., 19:359-60; 20:171.
¹⁴Ibid., 21:451.
¹⁵Ibid., 20:222-23.
¹⁶Ibid.
¹⁷Ibid., 26:288.
¹⁸Ibid., 31:474.
¹⁹Ibid., 30:329.
²⁰Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 244:23; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
²¹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:61; French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
²²"Laws of New Hampshire," Independent Statesman, 15 July 1842; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 2012).
²³Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Union, Rock Co., WI, 1005:314A, 1250; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
²⁴Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Stockton, Portage Co., WI, 1426:380, 704; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
²⁵Ibid., Plover, Portage Co., WI, 1426:311, 1122.
²⁶Ibid., Eagle Valley, Carson Co., UT, 1314:77, 1808.
²⁷Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Stockton, Portage Co., WI, 1732:190B, 139; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
²⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population (roll 1442), Stockton, Portage Co., WI, enumeration district (ED) 144, 131D, 29; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
²⁹Vynette Sage, "The 1890 Territorial Great Register," Arizona GenWeb Project, information sharing site, 2013 (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azgenweb/ : accessed: 2013).
³⁰"Arizona, Marriages, 1888-1908," index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2011), .
³¹Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population , Bisbee, Cochise Co., AZ, enumeration district (ED) 7, 45:3B, 1180, ; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
³²"Arizona, Marriages, 1888-1908," Family Search.
³³Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
³⁴Ibid.
³⁵1860 Census, Plover, Portage Co., WI, 1426:311, 1122.
³⁶Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
³⁷Ibid.
³⁸1900 Census, Plover, Portage Co., WI, enumeration district (ED) 107, 1812:9B, 188.
³⁹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
⁴⁰Pat Bennett, "Bisbee Cemetery," Arizona GenWeb Project, information sharing site, 2013 (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azgenweb/ : accessed: 2013).
⁴¹"Arizona, Marriages, 1888-1908," Family Search.
⁴²Ibid.
⁴³Old Holy Cross Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., CA, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2012).
⁴⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.

Arizona GenWeb Project. Information sharing site. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azgenweb/.

"Arizona, Marriages, 1888-1908." Index. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2011.

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

Independent Statesman, Concord, NH. 15 July 1842.

Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, WI. 1 August 1899.

Milwaukee Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI. 1 August 1899.

Morrill Cemetery, Arnot, Portage Co., WI. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2013.

New Hampshire, State of. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH. Index of Births to 1900. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

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

Old Holy Cross Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., CA. Database. Find a Grave. findagrave.com : 2012.

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

United States Department of the Census. 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.

________. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Wisconsin Historical Society. "Wisconsin Genealogy Index." Database. Wisconsin Historical Society. www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/ : 2011.

"Wisconsin Marriages. 1836-1930." Family Search. familysearch.org : 2011.

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