JOHN6 MAXFIELD (Ezra5, John4, Michael3, John2-1) was born at Starksboro, Addison County, Vermont, on 7 August 1824[1] a son of Ezra French Maxfield and his wife Abigail Philbrick. He died at Barnstead, Belknap County, New Hampshire, on 26 April 1901.[2] He first married at Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, on 15 February 1842 ABIGAIL ROGERS.[3] She was born at New Hampshire about December 1808 , a daughter of Macajah and Loruhama Rogers. She died at West Fairlee, Orange County, on 2 May 1898.[4] He second married at Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on 23 January 1856 JULIA ANN (GREEN) TRUE.[5] She was born at Loudon on 10 April 1827, a daughter of David Green and Ruthena Sherburne. She died probably at Pittsfield, Merrimack County, on 29 April 1911.[6] She had previously married at Pittsfield on 29 April 1849 CYRUS D. TRUE.[7] He was born at New Hampshire about 1824-5,[8] and died probably at Pittsfield before the Merrimack County probat court session of Jamuary 1854.[9]
John spent his early years on the family farm in Starksboro, Vermont, the sixth of eight children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. When John was about seven years old the family moved to Chichester, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, his father's place of origin. When John was nine, his father died. John's oldest brother, Daniel, took over the farm and John and his siblings continued to live there. The 1840 census suggests that he was still on the farm at Chichester at tht time.[10]
Soon after 1840, John Maxfield moved to Vershire, Vermont, where his brother Ezra had settled. The 1858 map of Vershire places E. Maxfield in the southeast corner of the town of Vershire, on the main road between Vershire Center and West Fairlee Village, closer to West Fairlee. The farm immediately north of E. Maxfield belonged to D. Johnson, and the one north of that belonged to M. Rogers[11] - three families that would become related.
John Maxfield married Abigail Rogers in 1842. He was 17, she was 33. Seven months later Abigail gave birth to a daughter. The marriage did not last long, and probably ended in divorce, as the 1850 census reported Abigail Rogers under her maiden name, living in Vermont with her parents and her daughter, and John Maxfield living with his mother in New Hampshire. The daughter, Lorenzah Maxfield, grew up with her mother and maternal grandparents in Vermont, where her uncle Ezra Maxfield was nearby. John Maxfield lived the rest of his life in New Hampshire, where he established a new family.
Lorenzah Maxfield, under various spellings, can be traced through the census records as follows:
Line | Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | R.E. | Birthplace | Other |
5. | Micajah Rogers | 77 | M | farmer | $2000 | MA | |
6. | Loruhama Rogers | 75 | F | NH | |||
7. | Abigail Rogers | 40 | F | NH | |||
8. | Wm. Washngton | 16 | M | farmer | VT | school | |
9. | Lorenzo Maxfield | 7 | M | VT | school |
Comparison with other records indicatees that the census taker made a mistake on the gender of "Lorenzo." The Rogers household was followed immediately by the household of Ezra Maxfield.
Line | Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | R.E. | P.E. | Birthplace |
38. | Wm. Gilman | 37 | M | farmer | VT | ||
39. | Abigail Rogers | 51 | F | $200 | NH | ||
40. | Laurenzah Maxfield | 17 | F | VT | |||
1. | Alferett C. Richardson | 9 | F | VT | |||
2. | Lorohanna Rogers | 85 | F | $800 | $800 | NH |
This record followed immediately the household of Ezra Maxfield. Micajah Rogers had died at Vershire on 29 December 1857.[14] Lorenza Maxfield married Daniel Johnson in 1861. Loruhama Rogers died at Vershire on 23 June, 1867.[15] By 1870 Daniel Johnson, with his wife, children, and mother-in-law, had moved to Tunbridge, the town to the southwest of Vershire.
Line | Name | Age | Sex | Race | Occupation | R.E. | P.E. | Birth |
6. | Johnson, Dan'l | 31 | M | W | farmer | $1000 | $1000 | VT |
7. | Johnson, Eliza M. | 27 | F | W | keeps house | VT | ||
8. | Johnson, Ruby | 7 | F | W | VT | |||
9. | Johnson, Gladys | 5 | F | W | VT | |||
10. | Johnson, Major E. | 1 | M | W | VT | |||
11. | Rogers, Abigail | 61 | F | W | NH |
Ruby and Gladys were both in school. "Eliza" is Lorenzah, based on comparison with other censuses. By 1880 this family had moved to Ely, a village in the town of Fairlee, which was on the Connecticut River, separated from Vershire only by the town of West Fairlee.
Line | Name | Race | Sex | Age | Related | MS | Occupation | B | FB | MB |
6. | Johnson, Danel | W | M | 42 | ----- | M | farmer | VT | VT | VT |
7. | Johnson, |
W | F | 38 | wife | M | keeping house | VT | VT | VT |
8. | Johnson, |
W | F | 17 | daughter | S | at home | VT | VT | VT |
9. | Johnson, Gladys H. | W | F | 15 | daughter | S | at home | VT | VT | VT |
10. | Johnson, Lafe P. | W | M | 11 | son | S | at home | VT | VT | VT |
11. | Johnson, Carpenter | W | M | 8 | son | VT | VT | VT | ||
12. | Johnson, Frank B. | W | M | 4 | son | VT | VT | VT | ||
13. | Johnson, Grace A. | W | F | 9/12 | daughter | VT | VT | VT | ||
14. | Rogers, Abigail | W | F | 71 | mother-in-law | VT | MA | NH | ||
15. | Clagston, Winn | W | M | 17 | servant | S | farm laborer | VT | VT | VT |
16. | Rice, Francis | W | M | 23 | servant | S | farm laborer | VT( | (VT) | (VT) |
The record also indicated that Rubie, Gladys, Lafe, Carpenter and Frank were all attending school, Rubie was deaf, and Grace was born in September. The census taker crossed out two names, and wrote the corrected name after. Perhaps he had difficulty understanding them. The son called Major in 1870 and Lafe in 1880 was named Major Fredericks on his birth record; the son called Carpenter was Henry Carpenter on his marriage record; the daughter here called Grace was later called Abigail Grace on her grave marker.
Abigail Rogers died at West Fairlee on 2 May 1898, from the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.[18] Daniel and Lorenzah and their youngest daughter, Abigail, were reported in West Fairlee in the 1900 census.[19] West Fairlee is the town west of Fairlee and east of Vershire.
John H. Maxfield had returned to New Hampshire by 1850, when he appeared in the census with his mother and siblings. That census reported in Meredith, Belknap County, a household consisting of Abigail Maxfield, 65, Adelia, 32, John, 25, Abby, 24, and Henry, 20. At the same address the census recorded the household of Abigail's daughter and John's sister, Rhoda Davis, 30, her husband, John Davis, 41, manufacturer, and John Davis' children by a previous marriage, Sarah, 13, and Nathaniel, 7.[20]
John Maxfield. 31, married Julia Ann (Green) True, 28, at Loudon, on 23 January 1856. Julia had married Cyrus True at Pittsfield on 29 April, 1949. Within four months their child, David, arrived. Cyrus' death was reported to probate court at the January 1854 session. Cyrus would have been about 30 years old. Julia was a 26 year old widow with a four year old son. Two years later she married John Maxfield.
John and Julia Maxfield lived in Pittsfield, where they had five children in the next ten year. All reached adulthood and married. The 1860 census reported a family consisting of John Maxfield, 34, Julia, 33, David True, 10, and Abby and Frances Maxfield, ages three and one. John had a personal estate of $500, while Julia had real estate worth $800 and a personal estate of $150.[21] So she owned the farm.
The 1870 census reported the full family at Pittsfield as follows:[22]
Line | Name | Age | Sex | Race | Occupation | R.E. | P.E. | Birth |
17. | Maxfield, John H. | 53 | M | W | farmer | $2800 | $100 | NH |
18. | Maxfield, Julia A. | 43 | F | W | keeping house | $900 | NH | |
19. | Maxfield, Abbie E. | 13 | F | W | attending school | NH | ||
20. | Maxfield, Francis H. | 11 | F | W | attending school | NH | ||
21. | Maxfield, Truman G. | 8 | M | W | NH | |||
22. | Maxfield, Austin C. | 5 | M | W | NH | |||
23. | Maxfield, Georgiana | 3 | F | W | NH |
The census taker did not record an entry in the "occupation" column for children under ten, but in another column indicated that Truman and Austin, as well as Abbie and Frances, were atending school. I have not found David True in this census, but a Daniel True, age 20, was working as a farm laborer in the household of Jacob Osgood of Loudon.[23]
Abbie Maxfield married in 1875. Frances married in 1876, and died in 1877 from typhoid fever.[24] David True married in 1877. The 1880 census reported a smaller family consisting of John, 55, Julia, 53, Truman, 18, Austin, 16, and Georgia [called George in the census], 13. John was a farmer, Julia keeping house, Truman worked in a shoe factory, and Austin and "George" attended school.[25]
Truman Maxfield married in 1881, and Austin in 1885. Meanwhile, Julia Maxfield had gotten a divorce from John in October 1883, charging extreme cruelty.[26] Georgia married in 1898, at the age of 31.
The 1900 census reported John Maxfield, 75, living with his son Austin, Austin's wife and five children, in Barnstead.[27] Julia Ann Maxfield, called "Ann" in the census, aged 73, divorced, lived in Pittsfield. the census taker found in her home two grandchildren, Amy, age 8, a daughter of Austin, and Fanny, age eleven months, a daughter of Truman.[28]
John Maxfield died at Barnstead in 1901 from chronic prostatitis.[29] Julia Maxfield was reported in the 1910 census at Pittsfield with her granddaughter Amy, and Amy's husband, Fred. W. Sleeper.[30]
Julia Maxfield died in 1911. She wrote her will on 27 February 1904 and it was proved in Merrimack County Probste Court on 23 May 1911 In it she left the following legacies:[31]
John H. Maxfield and his first wife Abigail Rogers had the following child:
John H. Maxfield and his second wife Julia Ann Green had the following children:
Julia Ann Green and her first husband Cyrus True had the following child:
1Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4396, Birth, John Maxfield, 1824; digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 29 June 2013).
2New Hampshire, State of. Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 15159, Death, John H. Maxfield, 1901; digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 25 January 2017).
3Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4292, Marriage, Maxfield-Rogers, 1842.
4Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 6739, Death, Abigail Rogers, 1898.
5New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 9901, Marriage, Maxfield-True, 1856.
6Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 January 2014), submitted by Jane Wescomb; Truman J. Maxfield monument.
7New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 15274, Marriage, True-Green, 1849.
8Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 435, p. 182A, dwelling 1293, household 1414, Cyrus True family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2017); NARA microfilm record group M432.
9Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, Docket 4027 Cyrus D. True; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 30 January 2017).
10Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 240, p. 45, Daniel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704.
11H. F. Walling, Map of Orange County, Vermont (New York, New York: Baker & Tilden, 1858); digital image, Old Maps (old-maps.com : accessed 1 February 2017).
121850 census, Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, roll 926, p. 57B-58A, household 189, Macajah Rogers family.
13Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, roll 1323, p. 578, household 613, family of William Gilman; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653.
14Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 8168, Death, Micajah Rogers, 1857.
15Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 8098, Death, Loruhamah Rogers, 1867.
16Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont, roll 1622, p. 473A, dwelling 152, household 153, Daniel Johnson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2017); NARA microfilm record group M593.
17Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Ely, Orange County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 137, roll 1345, p. 95D, dwelling 189, household 189, Daniel Johnson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2017); NARA microfilm publication T9.
18Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 6739, Death, Abigail Rogers, 1898.
19Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, West Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 143, roll 1692, p. 5A, dwelling 113, household 115, Daniel Johnson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2017); NARA microfilm group T623.
201850 census, Meredith, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 425, p. 27A, dwelling 291 households 342-343, Abigail Maxfield household.
211860 census, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 677, p. 561, household 289, John H. Maxfield family.
221870 census, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 846, p. 456B, household 13, John H. Maxfield family.
231870 census, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 846, p. 277A, dwelling 45, household 36, Jacob Osgood household.
24New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 7851, Death, Frances Kelley, 1877.
251880 census, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, ED 190, roll 766, p. 433B, household 18, John H. Maxfield family.
26New Hampshire, Divorce Records to 1938 (microfilm), John Maxfield-Julia Maxfield, 1883;New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
271900 census, Barnstead, Belknap County, Neww Hampshire, ED 2, roll 944, p. 9A, household 245, Austin C. Maxfield family.
281900 census, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, ED 174, roll 949, p. 14A, household 359, family of Ann Maxfield.
29New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 15159, Death, John H. Maxfield, 1901.
30Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 225, eoll 865, p. 4A, household 75, family of Julia Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 August 2013); NARA group T624.
31Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 126:166; (accessed 13 January 2014).
32Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4412, Birth, Lorenza Maxfield, 1842.
33Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 1458, Death, Lorenza Johnson, 1909.
34Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4296, Marriage, Johnson-Maxfield, 1861.
35South Vershire Cemetery, Vershire, Orange County, Vermont, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 June 2016), submitted by nortinnh; Daniel Johnson.
361870 census, Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont, roll 1622, p. 473A, dwelling 152, household 153, Daniel Johnson family.
37Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 3566, Marriage, Harding-Johnson, 1882.
381900 census, West Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont, ED 143, roll 1692, p. 5A, dwelling 113, household 114, Kimball Darling family.
39Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 3247, Birth, Major Frederick Johnson, 1868.
401880 census, Ely, Orange County, Vermont, ED 137, roll 1345, p. 95D, dwelling 189, household 189, Daniel Johnson family.
41Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 3129, Marriage, Johnson-Barrett, 1892.
42South Vershire Cemetery, submitted by Tyler; Frakf B. Johnson.
43Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 3129, Marriage, Johnson-Powers, 1898.
44South Vershire Cemetery, submitted by Tyler; Edith Johnson.
45South Vershire Cemetery, submitted by Richard Boutwell; image by nortinnh; Abbie G. Johnson.
46Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Stockbridge, Windsor County, Vermont, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 30 January 2017), submitted by Richard Boutwell; image by Sue; Wilbur C. Boutwell.
47New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card, Birth, Abbie E. Maxfield, 1856.
48New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 21736, Death, Abbie E. French, 1931.
49New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937., index card 20036, Marriage, French-Maxfield, 1875.
50New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 19677, Birth, John H. French, 1844.
51New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 22548, Death, John H. French, 1929.
52New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, Francis H. Maxfield, 1858.
53New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 7851, Death, Frances Kelley, 1877.
54"Marriages," Independent Statesman, 18 May 1876, p. 272; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through american ancestors.org.
55New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 17346, Death, George F. Kelley, 1915.
56New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 13142, Marriage, Kelley-Jones, 1882.
57Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 December 2012), submitted by Scott B.; George F. Kelley marker.
58New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 12316, Birth, Mabel F. Kelley, 1877.
59New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 13603, Marriage, Locke-Kelley, 1897.
60New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, Georgia A. Maxfield, 1866.
61New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 13450, Marriage, Shaw-Maxfield, 1898.
62Pine Ground Cemetery, (North Chichester), Chichester, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 8 December 2012), submitted by K. Stockman; John Shaw marker.
63New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 13450, Marriage, Shaw-Maxfield, 1898.
64New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 13446, Marriage, Shaw-Oxford, 1883.
65Pine Ground Cemetery, submitted by K. Stockman; John Shaw marker.
66New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 18274, Death, David True, 1920.
67New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15288, Marriage, True-Stockman, 1877.
68New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 18322, Death, Hannah True, 1937.
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