Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

JONATHAN CARR⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 17 February 1809^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, on 2 September 1890.^[2] He first married at Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire on 2 July 1829 JUDITH CHENEY.^[3] She was born at Goshen, Sullivan County, on 5 June 1805 and died near Evansville, Rock County, Wisconsin, on 6 April 1846.^[4] He second married at Evansville on 10 July 1847 ANNA (ALLEN) BAKER.^[5] She was born at Pennsylvania on 6 July 1801 and died at Plover on 13 April 1873.^[6] He third married at Lind, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, on 30 April 1874 SARAH (MccLENNAN) JAMES.^[7] She was born at New York on 30 March 1817, a daughter of Robert D. and Hannah (Taggart) McClennan. She died at Plover on 19 September 1885.^[8] He fourth married at Portage County on 13 December 1888 SARAH L. (PROUTY) CLENDERMING.^[9] She was born at New York on 1823 and died at Stevens Point, Portage County, on 30 July 1899.^[10]

Although Jonathan's birth was recorded at Fishersfield, later called Newbury, Hillsborough County, his parents were still living at Bradford at that time. His family of origin moved in time from Bradford to Fishersfield to Goshen. Jonathan was the fourth of nine children.

Jonathan Maxfield participated in a number of property transfers and mortgages in Sullivan County:

• 23 December 1834, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to Isaac Mercer of Wendell, Sullivan County, for $590, 2 parcels, one in Wendell and one in Goshen, of 30 acres and 20 acres. Mercer gave to Maxfield promissory notes, which were paid off on 19 December 1838.^[11]
• 6 February 1835, Edmund H. Chandler of Fishersfield sold to Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen for $500, a parcel in Goshen, 75 acres, lot #7, 1st division, 1st range. Maxfield then mortaged the property to Chandler, Maxfield to pay Chandler over seven years.^[12]
• 3 October 1836, Benjamin and Charlotte Mercer, and Jonathan and Judith Maxfield, of Goshen, granted by quitclaim deed to Reuben and Mehitable E. Cutts, Reuben and Abigail C. Havens, of Newport, Sullivan County, for $500, 42 acres of land and buildings in Wendell formerly belonging to Richard Cheney late of Newport, deceased, reserving the widow's dower to Elizabeth Cheney, and access to buildings and some land to themselves.^[13]
• 1 January 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen mortgaged to Nathaniel Chandler of Newbury for $400, the property he had previously purchased from and mortgaged to Edmund Chandler. Discharged 30 August 1841.^[14]
• 18 Apr 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to Benjamin Mercer of Goshen for $190, his interest in land in Wendell and Newport, part of the Richard Cheney estate, which they held jointly.^[15]
• 20 April 1837, Jonathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to William Gross of Goshen for $550, a parcel of 75 acres deeded to him by Edmund Chandler, except for burial ground. William Gross sold this land back to Jonathan Maxfield for $550 on 6 October 1837.^[16]
• 22 March 1839, Jonathan C. Maxfield and Judith Maxfield of Goshen sold to Eleazer Wells of Newport for $75, the undivided fourth part of all the rights of dower of Elizabeth Cheney of the farm lately owned and occupied by her late husband Richard Cheney, late of Newport, deceased, now Elizabeth Wells, except that portion sold to Benjamin Mercer of Goshen.^[17]
• 25 Apr 1840, Page, Jonathan and Nathan Maxfield of Goshen sold to Hiram Sholes of Goshen for $320, a parcel in Newbury and Goshen, west end of lot #2, 50 acres.^[18]
• April 1841, Jonathan C. Maxfield of Goshen sold to Ezra Purrington of Goshen for $200, a parcel in Goshen, 25 acres, part of lot #7 1st division 1st range.^[19]

Jonathan C. Maxfield was a farmer all his life. He and Judith had five children, three of whom survived childhood. The 1840 census reported the Jonathan Maxfield family at Goshen, consisting of a man and a woman in their 30s (Jonathan 31, Judith 34), a boy between 10 and 14 (Almon 10), and a boy and a girl under 5 (Electa 2, Leander 1).^[20]

The Jonathan Maxfield family moved West, to Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1844, according to Wright.^[21] However, they had sold their land in Goshen in August 1841. On 23 June 1842 the New Hampshire state legislature removed Jonathan Maxfield from the office of Lieutenant in the light infantry of the 31st regiment of the state militia, stating he had moved away and neglected to resign.^[22] So their westward move may have been between April 1841 and June 1842.

Wisconsin opened up to settlement following the Black Hawk War of 1832. It became a Territory in 1836 and a state in 1848. Jonathan and Judith and family first settled in Rock County, in southern Wisconsin. Judith died there in 1846. Fifteen months later Jonathan remarried. Jonathan and his new wife, Mrs. Ann Baker, each brought three children into their combined household. They moved to Portage County, and enjoyed twenty-two years of marriage before Ann died. A year after her death, Jonathan married Sarah (McClennan) James. After eleven years of marriage she died. Three years later, at age 79, Jonathan married his fourth wife, Mrs. Sarah Clenderming, age 63. Jonathan died two years later; Sarah lived another nine years after his death.

The 1850 census reported the blended family of Jonathan and Ann at the Town of Union, Rock County, as follows:^[23]

The 1860 census reported Jonathan and Ann at Stockton, Portage County. All of the children had left home except William, who was mistakenly recorded as William Maxfield.^[24] Electa married in 1855 and lived in Plover. Almon was living with his sister,^[25] and would marry the following year. Leander had found his way to Eagle Valley Township, Carson County, Utah, where he worked as a miner.^[26] Jonathan and Ann were reported at Stockton in the 1870 census,^[27] and Jonathan and Sarah were there in 1880.^[28] Although Jonathan was appointed postmaster at Stockton on December, 1874,^[29] he was still listed in the 1880 Census as a farmer.

Leander Maxfield disappeared from the records until he registered to vote at Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, on 6 October 1890. He described himself as a carpenter, 52 years old.^[30] On 11 July 1896 he married at Bisbee, Mrs. Mary Ann Walker, child of Francis Hury. He was 57, she 42.^[31] The 1900 census reported them at Bisbee:^[32]

The census indicated they had been married four years.

Leander and Mary Ann married again, at Bisbee, on 17 July 1902.^[33] Perhaps they had gotten divorced in between?

Jonathan Carr Maxfield and his first wife Judith Cheney had the following children:

1. ALMON⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 5 November 1829.
2. ELMINA⁶ MAXFIELD b. on 5 August 1832; d. on 8 September 1835.^[34]
3. ELECTA ELIZABETH⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire on 27 July 1836; d. at Plover on 7 July 1917; m. (1) at Plover on 31 July 1855 JACOB HARBAUGH,^[35] b. at Pennsylvania abt. 1830-1,^[36] d. on 2 February 1866;^[37] m. (2) at Plover on 26 November 1868 DAVID DANFORTH (his second marriage), b. at New York on 1 March 1815, d. on 5 March 1882;^[38] m. (3) abt. 1891-2 JOHN PATTERSON, b. at Maine on April 1835;^[39] John Patterson m. (1) MARTHA W. ________ b. on 10 May 1835, d, on 1 January 1886.^[40] Electa and Jacob had the following child:^[41]
   1. Emery A. Harbaugh b. at Wisconsin about 1855-6.
   Electa and David had the following children:^[42]
   2. Eva Danforth b. at Wisconsin on February 1870.
   3. William Danforth b. at Wisconsin on May 1872.
4. LEANDER⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire on 25 July 1838;^[43] d. at Cochise County on 5 July 1909;^[44] m. at Bisbee on 9 July 1896^[45] and again at Bisbee on 17 July 1902 MARY ANN (HURY) WALKER,^[46] b. at Ireland on 10 February 1853, d. at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, on 10 April 1916, child of Francis Hury.^[47]
5. JONATHAN⁶ MAXFIELD b. on 18 November 1840; d. on 5 December 1840.^[48]

¹New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9521, Birth, Jonathan C. Maxfield, 1810; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 December 2016).
²Morrill Cemetery, Arnott, Portage County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 18 April 2023), Jonathaan Carr Maxfield; Created and photo by: Jonelle.
³New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9906, Marriage, Maxfield-Cheney, 1829.
⁴French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952.
⁵Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:61.
⁶Morrill Cemetery, Arnott, Anna Maxfield; Created and photo by: Jonelle.
⁷Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Marriage Records, 1820-2004, no. 48, Maxfield-James, 1874; digital images, Ancestry (: accessed 6 April 2023); ancestry.com.
⁸Morrill Cemetery, Arnott, Portage County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave, Sarah M. Maxfield; Created and photo by: Jonelle.
⁹Wisconsin, Marriage Records, 1820-2004, no. 71, Maxfield-Cleindenning, 1890.
¹⁰Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Death Records, 1959-2004, no. 02438, Sarah L. Maxfield, 1899; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 April 2023); "Badger News in Brief," Milwaukee Journal, 1 August 1899; 19th Century U. S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 12 October 2014). p. 2; "Mrs. Benjamin Goldberg Dead," Milwaukee Sentinel, 1 August 1899; 19th Century Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 12 October 2014). p. 10.
¹¹Deeds, 14:86; digital images, Sullivan County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds.com/sullivan : accessed 29 August 2012).
¹²Ibid., 13:336; 14:110.
¹³Ibid., 19:359-60; 20:171.
¹⁴Ibid., 21:451.
¹⁵Ibid., 20:222-23.
¹⁶Ibid.
¹⁷Ibid., 26:288.
¹⁸Ibid., 31:474.
¹⁹Ibid., 30:329.
²⁰Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 244, p. 23, Jonathan Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²¹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:61.
²²"Laws of New Hampshire," Independent Statesman, 15 July 1842; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through americanancestors.org.
²³Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Union, Rock County, Wisconsin, p. 314A, household 1250, Jonathan Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²⁴Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Stockton, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 380, household 704, Jonathan C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
²⁵1860 Census, Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 311, household 1122, Jacob Harbaugh family.
²⁶1860 Census, Eagle Valley, Carson County, Utah, p. 77, household 1808, John Wilson household.
²⁷Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Stockton, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 190B, household 139, J. C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
²⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Stockton, Portage County, Wisconsin, enumeration district (ED) 144, p. 131D, household 29, J. C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²⁹Daily Inter-Ocean, 18 December 1874; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ : accessed 9 November 2013).
³⁰Vynette Sage, "The 1890 Territorial Great Register," Arizona GenWeb Project, information sharing site, 2013 (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azgenweb/ : accessed] 15 November 2013).
³¹Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City., "Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949," database, FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org : accessed 21 November 2023), Maxfield-Walker, 1896.
³²Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, enumeration district (ED) 7, p. 3B, household 1180, Leander Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
³³"Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949," Maxfield-Walker, 1902.
³⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
³⁵Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62; Morrill Cemetery, Arnott, Electa E. Harbaugh; Created by: Jonelle, Photo added by Keith.
³⁶1860 Census, Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 311, household 1122, Jacob Harbaugh family.
³⁷Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
³⁸Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
³⁹1900 Census, Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, ED 107, p. 9B, household 188, John Patterson family; Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
⁴⁰Union Cemetery, Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 11 October 2014), Martha Patterson.
⁴¹1860 Census, Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 311, household 1122, Jacob Harbaugh family.
⁴²1870 Census, Stockton, Portage County, Wisconsin, p. 192A, household 159, David Danforth family; 1900 Census, Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin, ED 107, p. 9B, household 188, John Patterson family. ⁴³Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
⁴⁴Arizona Department of Health Services. Department of Library and Archives, Phoenix, Arizona., Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951, Lee Maxfield, 1909; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : database 21 November 2023).
⁴⁵"Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949," Maxfield-Walker, 1896.
⁴⁶"Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949," Maxfield-Walker, 1902.
⁴⁷California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records, "California Death Index, 1905-1939," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 October 2023), Mary A. Maxfield, 1916.
⁴⁸Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.

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________. Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

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