Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

DAVID CARR⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 14 November 1804^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, on 13 May 1890.^[2] He married at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on 29 November 1827 THANKFUL HURD CUTTS.^[3] She was born at Goshen on 4 October 1804, a daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts. She died at Goshen on 8 October 1853.^[4]

Thankful's sisters, Abigail and Lemira, would later marry David's brothers, Page and Nathan.

David Carr Maxfield, the oldest of ten children of Currier Maxfield, lived with his family at Bradford to 1810. From 1812 through 1820 they lived at the neighboring town of Fishersfield (later named Newbury), Hillsborough County. Beginning in 1821 they lived at Goshen. David Maxfield was a farmer all of his life.

David Carr Maxfield participated in several property transactions in the Town of Goshen:

• 24 March 1827, Currier Maxfield sold to David C. Maxfield [amount paid left blank], land in Goshen, part of lot #8 and part of lot #12 in 7th range, 15 acres plus 102 acres.^[5]
• 22 Mar 1836, Stephen Collins of Fishersfield, Deacon, mortgaged to David C, Maxfield of Fishersfield for $300 an undivided half part of two pieces, part in Fishersfield, part in Wendell, part in Goshen, part of lot #8, 1st division of Fishersfield, part of lot #12, 7th division of 75 acre lots in Goshen, 98 acres, and on the same date Ira Collins of Deering, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, yeoman, mortgaged to David C. Maxfield of Fishersfield, gentleman, for $300, the same parcel.^[6]
• 30 Aug 1841, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to [his father and brother] Currier Maxfield and David C. Maxfield of Goshen for $600, a parcel in Goshen 75 acres, lot #7 of 1st division, 1st range, except 25 acres already sold.^[7]
• 20 July 1844, David C. Maxfield and Currier Maxfield, both of Goshen, sold to Imry Purrington of Goshen for $500, a parcel in Goshen, 75 acre lot #7, 1st division, 1st range, except 25 acres already sold. Thankful, wife of David, and Hepsibeth wife of Currier relinquished their right of dower.^[8]

Thankful died on 8 October 1853, leaving David with children at home ages 19, 12 and 10. The two oldest children had already married.

North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, NH
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The family soon moved west to the new territory of Minnesota. Organized as a territory in 1849, much of southern Minnesota was opened to settlement by a treaty of 1851, and Minnesota became a state in 1858. Daughter Orisa and her husband John Brown moved to Minnesota in 1855.^[9] By 1860 daughter Alzina and her husband Bela Babb, and widower David Maxfield and the remaining children, had settled at Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota. By 1870 David, Alzina, and the remaining children had settled at Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Alzina died in 1872, and her widower Bela Babb soon married his sister-in-law Ruth Maxfield. The family continued to be close throughtout David's life.

Census records for this family, in 1830 at Fishersfield and in 1840 at Goshen, give numbers in various categories of sex and age, which can be explained as follows:^[10]

The 1850 census reported the family at Goshen, separated by only one household from David's father Currier. The family consisted of David, 50, farmer, Thankful, 48, Elzina, 17, Loren, 9, George, 7, John H. Brown (son-in-law) 24, farmer, and Orisa Brown, 22.^[11] Ruth, age 20, was at Manchester, Hillsborough County, in a household of many woman,^[12] probably working in a mill.

The 1860 census reported this family at Eagle Creek Township, Scott County, Minnesota (Shakopee Post Office), consisting of David, 57, farmer, Ruth, 30, Lauren, 20, George 17, attending school, and Emiline, Ruth's daughter out of wedlock, 5.^[13] The next household on the census belonged to Bela and Alzina Babb. In 1865 David Maxfield was still in the same township, listed next to the Babbs, the household consisting of David, George, Ruth and Emma[line].^[14]

The 1870 census reported this family at Milo Township, Mille Lakes County (Princeton Post Office), again listed next to the Babb family. Ruth was listed as the head of household, with David and Emiline.^[15]

In 1875 widower David Maxfield, 72, was living with his recently widowed son-in-law Bela Babb, and six children, at Greenbush, Mille Lacs County.^[16] Ruth, 43, was still in Milo Township, residing in the household of her son-in-law Elijah Biddle.^[17]

The 1880 census reported David Maxfield, 76, no occupation, living at Wilmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, with son-in-law John H. Brown, 56, district judge, David's daughter Orissa Brown, 51, and three grandchildren, Dorrie Brown, 21, teacher, Jennie, 19, at school, and Mattie, 17, teacher.^[18] In 1885 David Maxfield was still at Wilmar with J. H. and Mrs. Brown and their daughter Jenine, age 24.^[19]

David Carr Maxfield and his wife Thankful Hurd Cutts had the following children:

1. ORISA MARGARET⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 March 1829; d. on 15 August 1915;^[20] m. at Manchester on 5 February 1850 JOHN HARRISON BROWN,^[21] b. at Manchester on 1 May 1824, d. on 20 January 1890.^[22] Children of Orisa and John:^[23]
   1. Doris Brown b. at Minnesota about 1858-9.
   2. Jennie L. Brown b. at Minnesota about 1860-1.
   3. Mattie Brown b. at Minnesota about 1862-3.
2. ALZINA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 30 October 1832; d. on 13 December 1872; m. at Goshen on 4 September 1851 BELA BABB,^[24] b. at Goshen on 17 March 1832, d. at Greenbush, Roseau County, Minnesota on 27 May 1913.^[25]
3. RUTH H.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 September 1834.
4. MARY JANE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 4 August 1837; d. on 3 August 1838.^[26]
5. LAUREN MANLEY⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 6 November 1840.
6. GEORGE SIDNEY⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 3 August 1843.

¹New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, David C. Maxfield, 1804; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 December 2016).
²Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 8:17.
³New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9845, Marriage, Maxfield-Cutts, 1827.
⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17; North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 1 December 2017), Thankful Maxfield; Created and photo by: Cheshire; New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6194, Death, Thankful Maxfield, 1853.
⁵Deeds, 2:544; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 29 August 2012).
⁶Ibid., 33:41-42.
⁷Ibid., 30:327.
⁸Ibid., 38:470.
⁹"Progressive Men of Minnesota," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 November 2013); extracted from Marion Daniel Shutter, Progressive Men of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Journal, 1897), 247.
¹⁰Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Fishersfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 76, p. 245, David 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, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 244, p. 23, David Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹¹Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 441, p. 68A, household 24, David Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹²1850 Census, Manchester, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, roll 432, p. 37B, household 1597, John A. Fulton boarding house.
¹³Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, , population, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Michigan, p. 693, household 783, David Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 7 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁴Minnesota 1865 State Census, population, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota, household 39, David C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 September 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
¹⁵Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 3, household 18, R. H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁶Minnesota 1875 State Census, population, Greenbush, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 1049, household 3, Bela Babb family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 September 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
¹⁷Minnesota 1875 State Census, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 1090, household 32, Edward Biddle family.
¹⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, enumeration district (ED) 47, p. 86A, household 5, John H. Brown family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁹Minnesota 1885 State Census, population, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, p. 15, household 107, J. H. Brown family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 20 September 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
²⁰Fairview Cemetery, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 June 2023), Orissa M. Brown; Created and photo by: Remembering Them; Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, ed., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892), 191; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
²¹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Marriage: Brown-Maxfield, 1850.
²²Fairview Cemetery, Willmar, John H. Brown; Originally Created by: Glenn Kiecker, Maintained by: Cory Becker, Photo Added by Kevin Thompson; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
²³1880 Census, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, ED 47, p. 86A, household 5, John H. Brown family.
²⁴Oak Knoll Cemetery, Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 June 2023), Alvona C. Babb; Created and photo by: Judy Howard; Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America, 191.
²⁵Benson Cemetery, Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 23 October 2018), Bela Babb; Originally Created by: Gravely and Morticia Diggens, Maintained by: Lindalee, Photo added by Ron Keith.
²⁶Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.

Benson Cemetery, Benson, Swift County, Minnesota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2018.

Fairview Cemetery, Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2023.

Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, ed. Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America. Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892.

Minnesota Census Bureau. Minnesota 1865 State Census, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Minnesota 1875 State Census, population. Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

________. Minnesota 1885 State Census, population. Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

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 : 2016.

North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2017.

Oak Knoll Cemetery, Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2023.

"Progressive Men of Minnesota." Database. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013. Extracted from Marion Daniel Shutter, Progressive Men of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Journal, 1897.

Sullivan County Registry of Deeds. "Land Records." Digital images. Sullivan County Registry of Deeds. nhdeeds.com/sullivan : 2012.

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.

________. 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.

Wright, Elizabeth. "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 6:52-56; 7:20-24, 42-47, 61-71, 87-96; 8:15-22.