Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

NATHAN HURD⁵ MAXFIELD (Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹) was born at Fishersfield, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 5 August 1812^[1] a son of Currier Maxfield and his wife Mary Carr. He died at Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 22 December 1889.^[2] He married at Goshen, Sullivan County, on 1 March 1838 LEMIRA C. CUTTS.^[3] She was born at Goshen on 8 May 1816, a daughter of Charles and Abigail (Hurd) Cutts.^[4] She died at Newport, on 16 March 1884.^[5]

Nathan spent his early childhood at Fishersfield, the fifth of nine children. By the time he was eleven his family had moved to Goshen, where his parents and he farmed for the rest of their lives. Nathan was one of three brothers (David, Page and himself) who married three sisters (Thankful, Abigail and Lemira Cutts).

In July 1842 Nathan was appointed Captain in the 31st regiment, 5th company infantry of the New Hampshire militia.^[6]

The Nathan Maxfield family was reported in the 1840 census at Goshen, consisting of a man and a woman in their 20s (Nathan, 27, Lemira, 24), a girl between 10 and 14 (unidentified) and a girl under 5 (Lestina, 0).^[7] Lestina died the following year.

Census records for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 all record Nathan at Goshen, a farmer, with the ages of family members as follows:^[8]

Nathan and Lemira moved to the larger nearby community of Newport some time after 1880. Of their children, Charles married in 1877 and died in 1882, without children; Henry married first in 1869 and died in 1883, leaving three children by his first wife. Lemira died on 16 March 1884 at Newport. The following week, on 25 March 1884, Nathan wrote his will, remembering his only surviving child, and the children of his deceased son.. His will follows:^[9]

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Son Charles Albert Maxfield had married Elizabeth "Lizzie" George. He worked as a blacksmith in Newport, where they were reported in the 1880 census.^[10] He died from typhoid fever at the age of 33.^[11] Not leaving a will, his widow was appointed administratrix; the estate was insolvent.^[12] Two years later Lizzie remarried.

Nathan and Lemira are buried at North Goshen Cemetery;^[13] Ella and her husband John Johnson are buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport.^[14]

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Nathan Hurd Maxfield and his wife Lemira Cutts had the following children:

1. LESTINA MAROA⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 26 August 1839; d. on 14 July 1841.^[15]
2. HENRY EDGAR⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 16 June 1842.
3. CHARLES ALBERT⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 12 April 1848;^[16] d. at Newport on 7 January 1882;^[17] m. at Claremont, Sullivan County, on 3 January 1887 ELIZABETH M. GEORGE,^[18] b. at Sunapee, Sullivan County, on 5 October 1849, d. at Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on 14 April 1906,^[19] child of Clifton C. George and Mary A. Rider. Elizabeth m. (2) at Warner, Merrimack County, on 9 April 1884 ALEXANDER LAFAYETTE KEZER, b. at Hopkinton abt 1853-4, child of Moses Kezer.^[20]
4. ELLA MELROSE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 9 January 1854;^[21] d. at Newport on 11 February 1841;^[22] m. at Concord, Merrimack County, on 5 May 1874 JOHN W. JOHNSON,^[23] b. on 1849, d. on 1926.^[24]

¹New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, Nathan H. Maxfield, 1812; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 December 2016).
²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6176, Death, Nathan Maxfield, 1889.
³Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, ed., Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892), 95.
⁴Ibid.
⁵New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6166, Death, Lemira C. Maxfield, 1884.
⁶"Appointments and Promotions in the N.H. Militia," Independent Statesman, 26 August 1842; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through americanancestors.org.
⁷Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 244, p. 23, Nathan Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁸Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 441, p. 69A, household 44, Nathan H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 681, p. 875, household 649, Nathan Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 850, p. 509A, household 68, Nathan H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 269, roll 768, p. 317A, household 11, Nathan H.. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁹Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 68:195/6; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 14 January 2014).
¹⁰1880 Census, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, ED 274, roll 768, p. 365A, household 61, Chas. A. Maxfield family.
¹¹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6141, Death, Charles A. Maxfield, 1882.
¹²Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate, 54:370.
¹³North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, Nathan H Maxfield; Created and photo by: Cheshire; Lemira C. Maxfield; Created and photo by: Cheshire.
¹⁴Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 July 2014), John-Ella Johnson; Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.
¹⁵North Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Lestina Maxfield; Created and photo by: Cheshire.
¹⁶Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 7:62.
¹⁷New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6141, Death, Charles A. Maxfield, 1882.
¹⁸New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9833, Marriage, Maxfield-George, 1877.
¹⁹Maple Street Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 25 February 2023), Charles-Lizzie Maxfield; Created and photo by: BennHertz.
²⁰New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 17166, Marriage: Kezer-Maxfield, 1884.
^{21 22Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, John-Ella Johnson; Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.
23New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 10415, Marriage, Sargent-Maxfield, 1874.
24Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, John-Ella Johnson; Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.}

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

Independent Statesman, Concord, New Hampshire. 26 August 1842; 19 January 1882.

Maple Street Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 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 : 2016.

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

Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2014.

Sullivan County, New Hampshjire. Probate Records. "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973." Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org: 2014.

United States Department of the Census. 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.