Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

NATHAN HURD⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Fishersfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 5 August 1812^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 22 December 1889.^[2] He married at Goshen, Sullivan County, on 1 March 1838 LEMIRA C. CUTTS.^[3] She was born at Goshen on 8 May 1816, a daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts.^[4] She died at Newport, on 16 March 1884.^[5]

Nathan spent his early childhood at Fishersfield, the fifth of nine children. By the time he was eleven his family had moved to Goshen, where his parents and he farmed for the rest of their lives. Nathan was one of three brothers (David, Page and himself) who married three sisters (Thankful, Abigail and Lemira Cutts).

In July 1842 Nathan was appointed Captain in the 31st regiment, 5th company infantry of the New Hampshire militia.^[6]

The Nathan Maxfield family was reported in the 1840 census at Goshen, consisting of a man and a woman in their 20s (Nathan, 27, Lemira, 24), a girl between 10 and 14 (unidentified) and a girl under 5 (Lestina, 0).^[7] Lestina died the following year.

Census records for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 all record Nathan at Goshen, a farmer, with the ages of family members as follows:^[8]

Nathan and Lemira moved to the larger nearby community of Newport some time after 1880. Of their children, Charles married in 1877 and died in 1882, without children; Henry married first in 1869 and died in 1883, leaving three children by his first wife. Lemira died on 16 March 1884 at Newport. The following week, on 25 March 1884, Nathan wrote his will, remembering his only surviving child, and the children of his deceased son.. His will follows:^[9]

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Son Charles Albert Maxfield had married Elizabeth "Lizzie" George. He worked as a blacksmith in Newport, where they were reported in the 1880 census.^[10] He died from typhoid fever at the age of 33.^[11] Not leaving a will, his widow was appointed administratrix; the estate was insolvent.^[12] Two years later Lizzie remarried.

Nathan and Lemira are buried at North Goshen Cemetery;^[13] Ella and her husband John Johnson are buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport.^[14]

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Nathan Hurd Maxfield and his wife Lemira Cutts had the following children:

1. LESTINA MAROA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 26 August 1839; d. on 14 July 1841.^[15]
2. HENRY EDGAR⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 16 June 1842.
3. CHARLES ALBERT⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 12 April 1848;^[16] d. at Newport on 7 January 1882;^[17] m. at Claremont, Sullivan Co., on 3 January 1887 ELIZABETH M. GEORGE,^[18] b. at Sunapee, Sullivan Co., on 5 October 1849, d. at Hopkinton, Merrimack Co., NH, on 14 April 1906,^[19] child of Clifton C. George and Mary A. Rider. She m. (2) at Warner, Merrimack Co., on 9 April 1884 ALEXANDER LAFAYETTE KEZER, b. at Hopkinton abt 1853/4, child of Moses Kezer.^[20]
4. ELLA MELROSE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 9 January 1854;^[21] d. at Newport on 11 February 1841;^[22] m. at Concord, Merrimack Co., on 5 May 1874 JOHN W. JOHNSON,^[23] b. on 1849, d. on 1926.^[24]

¹State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Births to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
²State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index of Deaths to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT; North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2012), .
³Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, ed., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892), 95; Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:62.
⁴Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family, 95.
⁵New Hampshire, Index of Deaths to 1900.
⁶"Appointments and Promotions in the N.H. Militia," Independent Statesman, 26 August 1842; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 2012).
⁷Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 244:23; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
⁸Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 441:69A, 44; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 681:875, 649; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012); Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, 850:509A, 68; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013); Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population (roll 768), Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, enumeration district (ED) 269, 317A, 11; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
⁹Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 68:195/6; 37:372; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 2014).
¹⁰1880 Census (roll 768) Newport, Sullivan Co., NH, enumeration district (ED) 274, 365A, 61.
¹¹New Hampshire, Index of Deaths to 1900; "Deaths," Independent Statesman, 19 January 1882, p. 128; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 2012).
¹²Sullivan County Probate, 54:370; 55:180.
¹³North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave.
¹⁴Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2014), .
¹⁵Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family, 192; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652," 7:62.
¹⁶Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family, 193; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652," 7:62.
¹⁷New Hampshire, Index of Deaths to 1900;
¹⁸State of New Hampshire. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Concord, NH, Index to Marriages Up to 1900;Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT.
¹⁹New Hampshire, Bureau of Vital Records, Concord, NH, New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2014).
²⁰Ibid.
²¹New Hampshire, Index of Births to 1900.
²²"New Hampshire, Deaths and Burials, 1784-1949," Family Search;
²³New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947; Index and images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).
²⁴Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan Co., NH, Find a Grave.

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.

Independent Statesman, Concord, NH. 26 August 1842; 19 January 1882.

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

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

________. New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947. Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2014.

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

________. New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947. Index and images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan Co., NH. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2012.

Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan Co., NH. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2014.

Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Probate Records. "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973." Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org: 2014.

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.

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.