Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

JAMES6 MAXFIELD (Jonathan,5 Richard,4 Michael,3 John2-1) was born at Potton, Brome County, Quebec, on 6 April 1833, a son of Jonathan Barnet Maxfield and his wife Mary Fellows. He died at Newport [Town], Orleans County, Vermont, on 5 December 1896.[1] He married at Newport, Orleans County, on 5 January 1857 CHARLANCY H. DAGGETT.[2] She was born at Newport on 17 March 1835, a daughter of Orville and Betsey (Kendall) Dagget. She died at Newport on 24 December 1913.[3]

James grew up on a farm at Potton, the sixth of six children. His parents were Congregationalists.

James Maxfield and family farmed in the Town of Newport. The 1860 Census reported James, 27, farmer, Charleny, 26, Olin, 3, and an unnamed male child, 3 months.[4] The 1870 Census reported James Maxfield, farmer, 37, Charlancy, 35, Oliver, 13, Omar, 10, and Carrie 6.[5] The 1880 Census reported the complete family:[6]

Line Name Race Sex Age Related MS Occupation B FB MB
5. Maxfield, James W M 48 M farmer Canada Canada Canada
6. Maxfield, Sharlana W F 45 wife M keeping house VT VT VT
7. Maxfield, Olen W M 23 son S VT Canada VT
8. Maxfield, Omer W M 20 son S VT Canada VT
9. Maxfield, Carrie W F 16 daughter S VT Canada VT
10. Maxfield, Earnest W M 7 son S VT Canada VT
11. Maxfield, Nellie W F 4 daughter S VT Canada VT
12. Davis, Herbert W M 16 S works on farm Canada Canada Canada

The farm hand, and all of the children except Olin, had attended school in the past year.

On 3 March, 1874, the family's house, barn and horse barn burned down. According to a news report, "The fire caught from smoking bacon under the shed."[7] A couple of years later James Maxfield had an altercation with a neighbor:[8]

James Maxfield, a highway surveyor on the lake shore, requested Clark Hunt a few days since, to take down his fence to prevent the snow from drifting the road, but Hunt refused to comply. By instruction received from the selectmen, Mr. Maxfield commenced to take down the fence when Hunt appeared on the stage of action and began to kick and cuff Mr. Maxfield, but he quickly retaliated by disfiguring Hunt's visage with a nail hammer.

Orleans County Monitor, 18 February 1878

On 6 October 1879 the Monitor reported, "James Maxfield on the Lake road is erecting a new set of buildings to replace those lately destroyed by fire."[9]

In the decade of the 1880s the children were marrying and leaving home. Omar married in 1883, Carrie in 1885, and Olin in 1886.

Son Ernest married in 1892, and following the Death of James, widow Charlancy lived with Ernest, as reported in the 1900 and 1910 censuses.[10]

James and Charlancy (Daggett) Maxfield had the following children:

  1. OLIN HARRY7 MAXFIELD b. at Newport on 12 April 1858.
  2. OMAR JAMES7 MAXFIELD b. at Newport on 6 May 1860.
  3. CARRIE ADAMS7 MAXFIELD b. at Newport on 16 March 1864; d. there on 30 October 1935;[11] m. there on 22 Cecember 1885 ALANSON ROBINSON MAGOON,[12] b. at Potton on 28 January 1860, d. at Newport on 18 May 1936,[13] child of Ira and Cordelia (Farrar) Magoon.
  4. ERNEST CHESTER7 MAXFIELD b. at Newport on 22 December 1872.
  5. NELLIE E.7 MAXFIELD b. at Newport on 6 March 1876;[14] d. there on 25 August 1952;[15] m. there on 31 December 1903 JOHN J. KILBY,[16] b. at Newport on 7 November 1863,[17] child of William T. and Percis (Brooks) Kilby.

NOTES

1Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4519, Death, James Maxfield, 1896; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 29 June 2013).
2Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4291, Marriage, Maxfield-Daggett, 1857.
3Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 2276, Death, Charlency Maxfield, 1913.
4Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, roll 1322, p. 1095, hoisehold 1843, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
5Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, roll 1623, p. 219B, household 141, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
6Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 163, roll 1346, p. 462D, household 77, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
7"State News: Orleans County," Vermont Farmer, 6 March 1874; Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 23 October 2017), Historic American Newspapers.
8"Local News: Newport Center," Orleans County Monitor, 18 February 1878; Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 23 October 2017), Historic American Newspapers.
9"Local News: Newport Center," Orleans County Monitor, 6 October 1879.
10Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Newport Town, Orleans County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 174, p. 1B, household 18, Ernest C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 September 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 169, roll 1615, p. 5B, household 42, Ernest C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
11Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 1030-1, Death, Carrie Adams Maxfield Magoon, 1935.
12Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4721, Marriage, Magoon-Maxfield, 1885.
13Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 1004-5, Death, Alanson Robinson Magoon, 1936.
14Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 6634, Birth, Nellie E. Maxfield, 1876.
15Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 7916-7, Death, Nellie Maxfield Kilby, 1952.
16Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4765, Marriage, Kilby-Maxfield, 1903.
17Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 778, Birth: John J. Kilby, 1863.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Orleans County Monitor. Barton, Orleans County, Vermont. 18 February 1878; 6 October 1879.

United States Department of the Census. 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.

________. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Vermont Farmer. Newport, Orleans County, Vermont. 6 March 1874.

Vermont State Archives and Records Administration. Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008. Digital images. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2013.

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