Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

ISAAC⁵ MAXFIELD (Benjamin⁴, Joseph^3-2, John¹) was born at New York, on 18 November 1918^[1] a son of Benjamin Maxfield and his wife Polly Sargent. He died at Monterey, Allegan County, Michigan, on 7 April 1880.^[2] He married probably before the birth of their first child in 1844 MELINDA ANGELINE ORTON. She was born at New York about 1826-7,^[3] and died at Michigan on 21 August 1882.^[4]

The eighth of possibly nine children, Isaac was born after his family had moved to Onondaga County, New York. Sometime in his youth his family moved west to Wayne County, New York. This was not far enough for Isaac. He and his wife Melinda moved to Hartford, Washington County, Wisconsin, where they farmed and where their children were born. The 1850 census reported Isaac Maxfield, 30, farmer, at Hartford, with Melinda, 23, Phebe M., 4, and Harriet A., 3.^[5]

By 1855 Isaac was joined at Hartford by the family of his brother, Joseph. The 1860 census reported both families there. The report of Isaac's family follows:^[6]

Ernest died in 1864 at the age of fourteen.

Next, the family of Isaac and Melinda moved east, across Lake Michigan, to Allegan County, Michigan. The 1870 census reported them there; they probably moved before the marriage of their daughter Marie Phebe at Allegan County in 1867. The 1870 census placed Isaac's family at Monterey Township, Allegan County. It listed Isaac, 51, farmer, Malinda, 43, keeping house, Hattie, 23, and Eugene, 14, attending school. A farm laborer, Sylvester Eggleston, 40, was also in the household. That census record also stated that Malinda's father was foreign born.^[7]

Death cast a dark shadow over this family around 1880. Marie Phebe, married in 1867, died on 23 February 1872. Harriet, who had married in 1872, died on 17 May 1879. Isaac died on 7 April 1880. Franklin Maxfield, the first child of Eugene Maxfield and his wife, died on 29 August 1880. Melinda, a widow with only one surviving child, died on 21 August 1882.

The 1880 census reported Malinda Maxfield, 53, housekeeping, at Monterey, heading a household that included her son Eugene, 24, farmer, Eugene's wife Emma, 17, and Malinda's granddaughter Jessie Kenyon, 2, daughter of her late daughter Harriet.^[8]

Isaac and Malinda Maxfield had the following children:

1. MARIE PHEBE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Hartford on 16 May 1844; d. at Monterey on 23 February 1872;^[9] m. at Wayland, Allegan County, on 3 November 1867 JOHN HAMILTON SWEEZEY,^[10] b. at Monterey on 28 February 1844, d. there on 25 July 1916.^[11] John m(2) at Allegan County on 7 December 1876 PHILANDA R. EWER b. at Waukesha County, Wisconsin on 14 November 1852, d. at Monterey on 5 July 1900.^[12]
2. HARRIET A.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Washington County about December 1847; d. at Monterey on 17 May 1879;^[13] m. at Allegan, Allegan County, on 5 December 1972 JAMES EDWARD KENYON,^[14] b. at Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on 1845, d. at Osceola County, Michigan, on 18 January 1914;^[15] James m. (2) at Allegan County on 8 September 1880 ELIDA WALL,^[16] b. on 18 August 1859, d. on 28 October 1944.^[17]
3. ERNEST⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Wisconsin about 1850-1, d.on 20 December 1864.^[18]
4. EUGENE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Wisconsin on March 1856.

¹Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, Allegan County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 June 2011), Isaac Maxfield; Created and photo by: Richard Howell.
²Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Allegan County, Isaac Maxfield, 1880; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 June 2023).
³1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census records. Her maiden name is from findagrave.
⁴Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, Melinda A. Maxfield; Created by: Richard Howell, photo Added by Scout.
⁵Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Hartford, Washington County, Wisconsin, p. 176A, household 570, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Hartford, Washington County, Wisconsin, p. 244, household 104, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁷Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Monterey, Allegan County, Michigan, p. 264A, household 79, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Monterey, Allegan County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 10, p. 185D, household 43/44, Malinda Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁹Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Allegan County, p. 3, e. 1088, Marie P. Sweezey, 1872.
¹⁰Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Allegan County, p. 3, e. 27, Sweezey-Maxfield, 1867; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 June 2023).
¹¹Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, John Hamilton Sweezy; Created by: Scout.
¹²Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, Philandsa R. Sweezy; Originally Created by: Sandi, Maintained by: Sandy VanderTol, Photo added by Scout. Date of marriage provided by informant.
¹³Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Allegan County, p. 11, e. 153, Harriette A. Kenyon, 1879. Born December 1847 to January 1848 according to Death Record; December 1846 according to grave marker; 1 846-7 according to 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses.
¹⁴Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Allegan County, p. 18, e. 1330, Kenyon-Maxfield, 1872.
¹⁵Highland Township Cemetery #1, Dighton, Osceola County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 3 September 2018), James E. Kenyon; Created and photo by: Rob Wiggins.
¹⁶"Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925," Kenyon-Wall, 1880.
¹⁷Highland Township Cemetery #1, Dighton, Elida Kenyon; Created by: Rob Wiggins. Day and month provided by informant.
¹⁸Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, Ernest A. Maxfield; Created and photo by: Scout.

Highland Township Cemetery #1, Dighton, Osceola County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 3 September 2018), James E. Kenyon; Created and photo by: Rob Wiggins.

Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan. Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2023.

________. Marriage Records, 1867–1952. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2023.

Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey Center, Allegan County, Michigan. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2011.

United States Department of the Census. 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.