Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

The 1840 Census (149:266) reported the Asa Maxfield family in Exeter including one male and one female in their 20s, one male and one female between 5 and 10, and one male under 5. This record does not agree entireley with our information from other sources on the composition of the family.

The Asa Maxfield family was reported in Exeter in the 1850 Census (265:125) as follows:

In 1860 census (446:738) reported this family consisted of Asa, 48, farmer, Delitia, 43, Mary H., 17, George W., 14, Ellen D, 11, and Hattie A., 6. All of the children were in school. This family was still in Exeter at the time of the 1870 Census (553:1:521B) but had shrunk considerably:

Still in Exeter in 1880, the Census (485:511B) reported Asa, age 68, farmer, and Delisha, age 63.

Asa Maxfield died on 4 August 1881, age 69 years and 2 months (NE Cems). Delisha died at Exeter on 23 May 1899 (VR ME). They were both buried at Vickery Cemetery, Exeter (NE Cems).

Asa and Delisha Maxfield had the following children:

1. SAMUEL ASA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Exeter on 12 November 1834
2. EMILY J.⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69)
   • b. at Maine abt 1836/7 (1850 Census)
   • m. at Exeter on 12 November 1858 AARON B. ROBINSON (ME M)
3. MARY⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69)
   • b. at Exeter on 13 July 1843 (ME B)
   • m (1). at Nashua, New Hampshire, on 1 July 1862 MELVIN WOODBURY (NH M)
     • b. about 1839/40
   • m (2). WILLIAM DEERING (NMGR 7:69)
4. GEORGE W.⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69)
   • b. at Exeter on 9 December 1845 (ME B)
   • Census. 1870 at Bangor, ME (552:1:168A) apparent boarding house
     • Maxfield, George, 25, male, white, clerk in store, b. ME
   • Census. 1880 at Bangor, ME (486:253A:46-47)
     • 46. Maxfield, George W., white, male, 36, married, butcher, b. ME, parents b. ME ME
     • 47. Maxfield, Annie M., white. female, 31, wife, married, keeping house, b. ME, parents b. ME ME
   • Census. 1910 at 60 Woodbury Street, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine (544:1:180A)
     • Maxfield, George W. head M W 64 married, b. ME, parents b. NH MA, broker, timber land
     • Maxfield, Annie M. wife F W 62 married 38 years, b. ME, parents b. ME ME, occ.: none
   • m. at Bangor on 16 January 1871 ANNIE M. BRIDGES (MR M) ("Anne Phillips" in NMGR 7:69)
     • b. at Bucksport, Maine on 24 October 1847, child of Edmund Bridges and Laura Harden (ME D)
     • d. at Bangor on 24 Nopvember 1917 (ME D)
5. ELLEN DELISHA⁷ MAXFIELD
   • b. at Exeter (NMGR 7:69) abt 1848/9 (1850 Census)
   • m. at Garland, ME, on 15 April 1868 AZRO HILLIARD JONES (ME M; Bangor Whig 2 Mar 1868)
6. HATTIE ADA⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69) "Hattie A." in 1870 Census
   • b. at Maine abt 1853/4 (1860 Census)
   • m. at Penobscot County, ME, on 1887 AZRO A. BODGE (ME M)

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 7:68-69. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. (F)
• Census records

Bangor Whig

Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Bangor, ME. Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers. Accessed through New England Historic Genealogical Society, (www.newenglandancestors.org).

DAR Lin

Daughters of the American Revolution. Lineage Book. Washington, D.C.: DAR.

ME B

Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900. Family Search (familysearch.org).

ME M

Maine Marriages, 1771-1907. Family Search (familysearch.org)

NE Cems

Cemetery Transcriptions. NEHGS. NewEnglandAncestry.org.

NH M

New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920. Family Search (familysearch.org).

VR ME

Vital Records of Maine, 1892-1907 (Maine State Archives, Augusta, Me.).

VR NH D

Bureau of Vital Statistics, State of New Hampshire, Concord, NH. Index of Deaths to 1900. microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Ut.