Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

SAMUEL⁵ MAXFIELD (Samuel⁴, Michael³, John^2-1) was born at Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 3 October 1793 a son of Samuel Maxfield and his wife Abigail Gilman. He died at Gilmanton on 29 October 1860.^[1] He married at Upper Gilmanton Parish (later Belmont), Gilmanton on 4 January 1816 BETSEY HUNTOON.^[2] She was born at Gilmanton on 8 August 1792, a daughter of Joshua Huntoon and Mary C. Winslow. She died on 5 December 1844.^[3]

Samuel and Betsey Maxfield lived and farmed in Gilmanton all their lives, in the Upper Gilmanton Parish, which was later incorporated as Belmont. The 1830 and 1840 censuses reported the family there, with the numbers in various age and sex categories, which could be explained as follows:^[4]

Betsey (Huntoon) Maxfield died on 5 December 1844 and is buried at South Road Cemetery, Belmont. Daniel had married about 1839-40, Susan married in 1841, Arthur married in 1845, Elizabeth married in 1848. The 1850 census found widower Samuel Maxfield living with son Daniel and his family at Gilmanton,^[5] while daughter Mary Ann was reported with her brother Arthur and family at Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts.^[6] Susan and her husband, Andrew Moody, lived at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[7] Elizabeth and her husband Franklin Skinner may have already moved to Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, where they were reported in the 1860 census. With the exception of Daniel, who was farming at Gilmanton, all of the other sons and sons-in-law had moved to mill towns and were working in textile mills.

The 1860 census (1 June) again reported Samuel Maxfield with his son at Gilmanton.^[8] Samuel died there on 20 October 1860 and is buried at South Road Cemetery, Belmont.

South Road Cemetery, Belmont, NH
from findagrave.com
photo by: rick pickwick
Isaiah was a grandson, son of Daniel

Samuel Maxfield and his wife Betsey Huntoon had the following children:

1. DANIEL HUNTOON⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 28 April 1816.
2. ARTHUR LIVERMORE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 31 August 1818.
3. SAMUEL WINKLEY⁶ MAXFIELD^[9] b. probably between 1820 and 1825. Living implied by 1830 and 1840 censuses. No further record.
4. SUSAN H.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 12 January 1821;^[10] d. at Lowell on 13 November 1855;^[11] m. at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 15 October 1841 ANDREW MOODY,^[12] b. at Massachusetts about 1815-6.^[13]
5. ELIZABETH⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire about 1826-7;^[12] m. at Chicopee on 19 February 1848 FRANKLIN SKINNER,^[13] b. at Connecticut abt. 1826-7. The 1860 census reported this family at Milledgeville where Franklin was superintendent of a mill.^[14]. Children of Elizabeth and Franklin, as reported in the 1860 Census:
   1. Harriet Skinner b. at Georgia about 1849-50.
   2. Arthur K. Skinner b. at Georgia about 1852-3.
   3. Joseph Skinner b. at Georgia about 1855-6.
6. MARY ANN⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton about 1831-2;^[15] d. on 1872;^[16] m. at Concord, Merrimack County, New Hmpshire, on 19 January 1871 WILLIAM H. PAGE.^[17] b. at Concord about 1836-7.

¹South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 September 2014), Maxfield monument (Daniel H.); Created and photo by: rick pickwick; George Hiram Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family (Boston: Frank Wood, Printer, 1903), 614; digital images, Library of Congress, Internet Archive (archive.org : accessed 25 May 2014).
²New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9948, Marriage, Maxfield-Huntoon, 1816; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 24 January 2017).
³South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Maxfield monument (Daniel H.); Created and photo by: rick pickwick.
⁴Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, roll 78, p. 267, Samuel 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, Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, roll 246, p. 399, Samuel Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁵Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 425, p. 104B, household 38, Daniel Mackfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 February 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶1850 Census, Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, roll 319, p. 147B, household 2371, Arthur Maxfield family.
⁷1850 Census, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, roll 326, p. 107B, household 151, Andrew Moody family.
⁸Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County., New Hampshire, roll 666, p. 122, household 93, Daniel H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁹Listed as a child of this family in French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952; and Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
¹⁰French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.; and Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614.
¹¹Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 3 May 2023), Lowell Deaths 1855; v. 94, p. 72, e. 696; Susan Moody.
¹²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card # 24838, Marriage: Moody-Maxfield, 1841.
¹³1850 Census, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, roll 326, p. 107B, household 151, Andrew Moody family.
¹⁴1860 Census, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, p. 132, household 218, Franklin Skinner family.
¹³"Marriages and Deaths in the Springfield Republican, 1848-1849," database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed ); citing p. 2657.
¹⁴1860 Census, Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., GA, 111:132, 218.
¹⁵1850 Census, Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, roll 319, p. 147B, household 2371, Arthur Maxfield family.
¹⁶Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, 614; and French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
¹⁷New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Marriage: Page-Maxfield, 1871.

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

Greeley, George Hiram. Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family. Boston: Frank Wood, Printer, 1903. Digital images. Library of Congress. Internet Archive. archive.org : 2014.

Massachusetts Archives. "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910." Digital images. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2023.

New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire. New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages. Digital images. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2017.

South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2014.

United States Department of the Census. Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. 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.