Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fourth Generation

JOSEPH4 MAXFIELD (Joseph3-2, John1) was born at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachuestts, on 28 January 1767[1] a son of Joseph and Love Maxfield. He died on 16 March 1845.[2] He married at Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 1 December 1790 DOROTHY WORTHEN.[3] She was born about 1765-6, and on 9 December 1844.[4]

Joseph grew up in Salisbury, the second of eight children. Sometime between his eleventh and seventeenth years, he moved north with his family to Weare. Joseph married a young woman from Weare, and they moved further north, to Warner, Hillsborough County, where they raised a family. They were farmers.

The Joseph Maxfield family appeared in the Census records at Warner in 1800,[5] 1810,[6] 1820[7] and 1830,[8] and at nearby Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in 1840.[9] These records only indicate the numbers of persons in various age and sex categories. Below are those records and possible identifications of family members:

1800, Warner
male 26-44 Joseph, 33
female 26-44 Dorothy, 29
male 0-9 Joseph, 7
female 0-9 Sarah
female 0-9 Love
female 0-9 perhaps Dorothy
1810, Warner
male 26-44 Joseph, 43
female 26-44 Dorothy, 39
female 16-25 Sarah
male 10-15 Joseph, 17
female 10-15 Love
female 10-15 perhaps Dorothy
male 0-9 Levi, 7
male 0-9 unidentified "A"
female 0-9 unidentified "B"
female 0-9 unidentified "C"
1820, Warner
male 45+ Joseph, 53
female 45+ Dorothy, 49
female 26-44 Sarah
male 16-25 Levi, 19
female 16-25 Love
female 16-25 perhaps Dorothy
male 10-15 unidentified "A"
female 10-15 unidentified "B"
female 10-15 unidentified "C"
male 0-9 Samuel, 4
male 0-9 unidentified "D"
female 0-9 unidentified "E"
female 0-9 unidentified "F"
1830, Warner
male 50-59 Joseph, 63
female 50-59 Dorothy, 59
male 20-29 unidentified "A"
female 20-29 unidentified "B"
male 15-19 Samuel, 14
1840, Bradford
male 70-79 Joseph, 73
female 70-79 Dorothy, 69
female 30-39 unidentified "B"

It is not surprising that a census taker would put husband and wife in the same category without checking, if they appeared close in age. In these records three unidentified persons appear in more than one census, suggesting that Joseph and Dorothy could possibly have had other children.

Joseph Maxfield participated in two property transactions in nearby Sullivan County, New Hampshire:

John Withington, Jr., was a son-in-law of Joseph Maxfield, the husband of his daughter Love.

An item which may in some way be related to this is the granting of guardianship over a Levi Maxfield, minor over 14 years of age, child of Betsey Withington late of Warner deceased, to Jonathan Peasley of Newbury, in September 1847.[11] I cannot otherwise identify this Levi Maxfield, although he shows up in Gallatin County, Montana, Census records, from 1870 to 1910.

Dorothy "Dolly" Maxfield died on 9 December 1844; Joseph Maxfield died on 16 March 1845. They are both buried at the Baptist Church Cemetery at Bradford.

Joseph Maxfield and his wife Dorothy Worthen had the following children:[12]

  1. SARAH PAGE5 MAXFIELD b. at Warner between 1790 and 1794; m. at Warner on 12 June 1831 JOHN HALL FLANDERS,[13] b. at Warner on 17 March 1808, d. at Penacook, Merrimack Co., on 26 February 1865.[14]
  2. JOSEPH5 MAXFIELD b. at Warner abt 1792/3.
  3. LOVE5 MAXFIELD b. prob. at Warner about 1796-7, d. on 12 March 1856;[15] m. at Warner on 31 August 1816 JOHN WITHINGTON Jr,[16] b. at Henniker, Hillsborough County, on 24 January 1801,[17] d. on 29 May 1888.[18]
  4. perhaps DOROTHY5 MAXFIELD b. bet. 1795 and 1800; m. at Warner on 25 June 1820 THOMAS BARNARD Jr.[19]
  5. LEVI WORTHEN5 MAXFIELD b. at Warner on 2 September 1800.
  6. perhaps unidentified "A"5 MAXFIELD (male) b. bet. 1805 and 1810.
  7. perhaps unidentified "B"5 MAXFIELD (female) b. bet. 1805 and 1810.
  8. perhaps unidentified "C"5 MAXFIELD (female) b. bet. 1805 and 1810.
  9. probably SAMUEL W.5 MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire abt. 1813-4.

NOTES

1Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 152.
2Baptist Cemetery, Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshie, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 19 November 2017), Joseph Maxfield; Originally Created by: Carey Rodd, Maintained by: William Quigley, Photo added by Sue Fetzer.
3New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9920, Marriage, Maxfield-Worthen, 1790; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 24 January 2017).
4Baptist Cemetery, Bradford, Dolly Maxfield; Originally Created by: Carey Rodd, Maintained by: William Quigley, Photo added by Skeeter. According to French she was born 16 Apr 1771, a daughter of Samuel and Deborah Worthen.
5Second Census of the United States: 1800, population, Warner, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, 20:634; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : 2012 accessed ).
6Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Bradford, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, 24:522; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
7Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population, Warner, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, 61:620; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
8Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, 76:228; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
9Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, 240:103; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
10Deeds, 22:358-59; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 2012).
11Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Probate Records; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 2014); docket # 2786.
12Many of the birth dates, especially where they are expressed in ranges, are derived from the census records cited above.
13New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Flanders-Maxfield, 1831.
14Edith Flanders Dunbar, The Flanders Family from Europe to America (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1935), 487; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2013.
15Baptist Cemetery, Bradford, Lovey Withington; Created by: Carey Rodd, Photo added by Sue Fetzer.
16New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Withington-Maxfield, 1816.
17Frederic Scherer Withington, "Henry Withington of Dorchester, Mass., and Some of His Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 75-76 (1921–22): 75:252.
18Baptist Cemetery, Bradford, John Withington; Created by: Carey Rodd, Photo added by Sue Fetzer.
19New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 10407, Marriage, Barnard-Maxfield, 1820. French identified this marriage record with Dorothy the child of Currier Maxfield and Mary Carr. But the marriage is too early for her and in the wrong town. I speculate that an otherwise unidentifed daughter of this family, indicated in census records, could have been named after the mother, and is the right age for this marriage record, and in the right town.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Dunbar, Edith Flanders. The Flanders Family from Europe to America. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1935. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

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

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

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