Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

ELLIOT5 MAXFIELD (Robert4, Michael3, John2-1) was born at North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, District of Maine, on 1 November 1798[1] a son of Robert Carr Maxfield and his wife Tabitha Clough. He died on 12 August 1846.[2] He married at Cumberland, Cumberland County, on 25 December 1821 ESTHER LEIGHTON.[3] She was born about 1801 and died on 31 August 1882.[4] She married second at North Yarmouth on 2 September 1849 BENJAMIN SAWYER, who was born about 1794-5.[5]

Elliot Maxfield grew up in North Yarmouth and lived his adult life in the adjoining town of Cumberland.

The census records for 1830 and 1840 list the numbers in a household by age and sex; the Elliot Maxfield household reports could be explained as follows:[6]

1830
male 30-39 Elliot, 31
female 20-29 Esther, 29
female 5-9 Elizabeth, 7
female 5-9 Sarah, 5
male 0-4 Robert, 3
male 0-4 Allyn, 1
1840
male 40-49 Elliot, 41
female 30-39 Esther, 39
female 10-15 Sarah, 15
male 10-15 Robert, 13
male 10-15 Allyn, 11
female 5-9 Francis, 9
female 0-4 Phebe, 2

The name Francis/Frances could be male or female, and is often spelled insensitive to the gender. According to the birth record, Francis was male, but in the 1840 census was female. It is possible that the census taker, being given the name, assumed the gender. On the other hand, if Frances is female, she could be the Frances E. Maxfield reported in the 1850 census age 19 in Cumberland,[7] and the Frances E. Maxfield who married Edward Bisbee on 5 July 1854 at Yarmouth.[8] The evidence is insufficient to say.

Elliot Maxfield died at the age of 47, on 12 August 1846, and was buried at the Congregational Church Cemetery in Cumberland.[9]

Esther (Leighton) Maxfield married again, at the age of 48, at North Yarmouth on 2 September 1849 to Benjamin Sawyer.[10] He was born about 1854-5 at Maine, and had married Lydia Field at Deering, Cumberland County, on 27 January 1825.[11] She died on at Durham, Cumberland County, on 17 September 1848,[12] at the age of 47.

The 1850 census reported the Benjamin Sawyer family at New Gloucester, Cumberland County, consisting of Benjamin, 55, farmer, Esther, 48, and Melissa, a child from his first marriage, 6.[13]

Benjamin and Esther Sawyer were reported as an empty-nest couple at New Gloucester in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses.[14] Esther (Leighton) (Maxfield) Sawyer died on 31 August 1882 and was buried at the Congregational Church Cemetery in Cumberland under the name of Esther Maxfield.[15]

Elliot Maxfield and his wife Esther Leighton had the following children:

  1. ELIZABETH ALLEN6 MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 28 October 1822.[16]
  2. SARAH6 CLOUGH MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 11 June 1824, d. at Yarmouth on 14 May 1917;[17] m. at North Yarmouth on 19 March 1849 DAVID SPEAR 2d,[18] b. on 17 October 1818, d. on 22 May 1904.[19]
  3. ROBERT C.6 MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 14 June 1826.
  4. ALLYN CLOUGH6 MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 13 January 1829;[20] d. at Biddeford, York County, on 26 January 1899;[21] m. before 1860 (married in census) HANNAH KEAY, b. at Biddeford about 1835-6, child of Lewis Keay.[22] Hannah m. (2) at Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 14 November 1881 VALENTINE FREE, who was born at Switzerland about 1822-3.[23] The 1860 census reported a household at Biddeford consisting of Allen C. Maxfield, 30, operative, real estate of $300, personal estate of $200; Hannah E. Maxfield, 23, operative, and 5 other young women, all operatives.[24] The 1870 census reported at Biddeford Allen C. Maxfield, 40, and Hanneh E. 33, both retail fancy goods dealers, and also Nellie L. Jellison, 21, who did housework.[25] The 1880 census reported at Biddeford Hannah E. Maxfield, 43, widow, tailoress, boarding in the home of Solomon H. and Harriet E. Pillsbury.[26]
  5. FRANCIS KNIGHT6 MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 16 April 1831.[27]
  6. PHEBE JANE6 MAXFIELD b. at Cumberland on 6 February 1838.[28]

NOTES

1Genealogical Society of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 22 October 2012), Elet Car Maxfield, 1798
2Congregational Cemetery, Cumberland Center, Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 March 2023), Elet-Esther Maxfield; Created by: Maine 101, Photo added by Debi C.
3Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 14 September 2012), Maxfield-Leighton, 1821.
4Congregational Cemetery, Cumberland Center, Elet-Esther Maxfield; Created by: Maine 101, Photo added by Debi C.
5"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Sawyer-Maxfield, 1849.
6Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, p. 142, Elit Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, p. 491, Elliot Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
7Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, p. 144A, household 196, boarding house; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
8"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Bisbee-Maxfield, 1854.
9Congregational Cemetery, Cumberland Center, Elet-Esther Maxfield; Created by: Maine 101, Photo added by Debi C.
10"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Sawyer-Maxfield, 1849.
11"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Sawyer-Field, 1825.
12Maine, Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta, Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Lydia Sawyer, 1848; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 3 March 2017).
131850 Census, New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, p. 70A, household 103, Benjamin Sawyer family.
14Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, New Gloucester, Cumberland County, MaIne, p. 37, household 309, Benjamin Sawyer family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2014); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, p. 402B, household 293, Benjamin Sawyer family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2014); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, enumeration district (ED) 40, p. 399A, household 152, Benjamin Sawyer family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2014); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C..
15Congregational Cemetery, Cumberland Center, Elet-Esther Maxfield; Created by: Maine 101, Photo added by Debi C.
16"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Elizabeth Allen Maxfield, 1822.
17Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Sarh C. Spear, 1917.
18"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Spear-Maxfield, 1849.
19Greenwood Cemetery, Biddeford, York County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 15 August 2017), David Spear; created by Sally - Midcoast Maine.
20"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Allyn Clough Maxfield, 1829.
21Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Allen Maxfield, 1876.
221836-7 in 1860, 1870, 1880 census records. Birth place from record of second marriage.
23New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Free-Maxfield, 1881; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestos (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 January 2023).
241860 Census, Biddeford, York County, Maine, roll 450, p. 171, household 166, Allen Maxfield household.
251870 Census, Biddeford, York County, Maine, roll 564, p. 97A, household 615, Allen Maxfield family.
261880 Census, Biddeford, York County, Maine, ED 185, roll 491, p. 134D, household 114, Solomon Pillsbury family.
27"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Francis Knight Maxfield, 1831.
28"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Phebe Jane Maxfield, 1838.

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