Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

CHARLES PATRICK⁶ MAXFIELD (Patrick⁵, Zadock⁴, Timothy^3-2, John¹) was born at New York City, New York County, New York, on 14 March 1803, post-humous son of Patrick Maxfield and his wife Elsa Loring.^[1] He died at Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 26 August, 1886.^[2] He married at New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 6 November 1826 ELIZA DAVENPORT.^[3] She was born at New Bedford on 21 December 1805, a child of Dudley Davenport, who was born in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, and his wife Phebe, who was born in New Bedford.^[4] Eliza died at New Bedford on 4 May 1869.^[5]

Charles' parents were married only three years before his untimely death. His father, Patrick Maxfield, master of the brig Eliza, out of New York City, was lost overboard when returning from Malaga. We don't know when Charles' mother was informed of her husband's death, but four months after he fell overboard, Charles Patrick Maxfield was born. Thirteen years after the death of her first husband, Charles' mother remarried. What happened to widow Elsa and baby Charles over those thirteen years? Where did they live? How did Elsa support herself and her child? I have no answer to these questions. All I know is that the 1810 Census reported Elsa living at New Bedford with her child.^[6]

When Elsa (Loring) Maxfield remarried in 1816, thirteen year old Charles entered a blended family. His step-father brought to the family children ages 18, 16, 13, 12, and 9. They were soon joned by two more children.

Charles Patrick Maxfield married Eliza Davenport when he was 23 and she 20. They lived at New Bedford where he worked as a carpenter, and they had six children.

The 1830 Census reported them in New Bedford with a boy and a girl under the age of ten.^[7] The 1840 Census reported Charles engaged in "manufacture and trade." They had five children. The age and sex categories match what we otherwise know of the family.^[8]

Son Charles died in 1849, age 21, while on the bark Peri.^[9] The 1850 Census reported the Charles Maxfield family of New Bedford as follows:^[10]

Daughter Alice died in 1850 at the age of 23. Daughter Sarah married Henry Luce in 1852. The 1855 state census reported a household consisting of Charles Maxfield, 52, house carpenter, Eliza Maxfield, 47, and their three youngest children at home, John, 21, seaman, Nathan, 20, house carpenter, and Eliza, 13.^[11]

According to the 1860 Census daughter Sarah and her husband had returned to live with her parents:^[12]

Sarah (Maxfield) Lucas died later in the year 1860. Children Eliza and John both married in 1863. Eliza's husband, Theodore Barton, and Nathan Maxfield, both served in the Army during the Civil War. The 1865 state census reported a household of Charles P. Maxfield, 62, carpenter, Eliza, 57, Nathan, 29, Army, Theodore Barton, 24, Army, and Eliza Barton, 23.^[13] John D. Maxfield, 30, described as a grocer, was living at New Bedford in the household of Paul and Louisa Eurn with his wife, Mercy, 20, and their child, Susan, 1.^[14]

Eliza died in 1869 from consumption,^[15] Son Nathan married in 1865, had a child in 1867, and his wife died on 1868. He remarried on June 1, 1870, the day of the census. That census reported Charles P. Maxfield, 69, house carpenter, in New Bedford, in the household of Benjamin Tripp, 63, house carpenter, with Charles' son, Nathan Maxfield, 33, house carpenter, Nathan's wife, Mira, 34, Mira's son by a previous marriege, Wilfred, 14, and Nathan's son by his first marriage, Charles, 2.^[16] John D. Maxfield, seaman, 35, and his wife Mercy, 26, were living in New Bedford with Mercy's mother, Sarah Taber, 60.^[17]

Son John D. Maxfield died in 1873, his wife had died in 1871. Charles P. Maxfield was reported in the 1880 Census at 281 Broadway, Providence, Rhode Island, in the household of his son-in-law Theodore Barton:^[18]

Chas. Maxfield, age 12, was a grandson of Charles P. Maxfield, son of Nathan Maxfield. Nathan was reported at 97 South Second Street, New Bedford, 44, house carpenter, with his wife Almira, 44, and her son Wilfred Stovell, 24, polisher.

Charles Patrick Maxfield died at Providence on 26 August 1886, age 83 years, from old age.^[19]

Charles P. Maxfield and his wife Eliza had the following children:

1. ALICE L.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 19 June 1827,^[20] d. there on 16 November 1850.^[21]
2. CHARLES DURFEE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 5 January 1829,^[23] d. at sea on 15 May 1849.^[1]
3. SARAH R.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford about June-July 1831, d. there on 2 December 1860;^[24] m. there on 16 June 1852 HENRY K. W. LUCAS^[25] b. at New Bedford on 14 October 1827;^[26] Henry m (2). after 1860 ELIZABETH R. ________ b. at New Bedford in 1836.^[27]
4. JOHN D.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Massachusetts abt 1833-4
5. NATHAN D.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 25 March 1836
6. ELIZA DAVENPORT⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 20 August 1843, d. at Providence on 6 January 1920; m. at New Bedford on 29 October 1863 THEODORE ARYAULT BARTON b. at Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island on July 1842, d. at Providence on 24 January 1905.^[28] Child of Eliza and Theodore:
   1. Mary A. Barton b. at Rhode Island about 1870-1.^[29]

¹Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1932. 1932, 1941), v. 1, p. 323.
²Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island, Deaths 1886: 747.
³Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 2, p. 365.
⁴Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 324.
⁵Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 12 September 2017), vol. 220, p. 126, e. 167, New Bedford Deaths, 1869, Elizabeth Maxfield.
⁶Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 17, p. 299, Wd. E. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 March 2012); NARA microfilm publication M25, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁷Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 59, p. 327, Charles P. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁸Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 178, p. 375, Charles P. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁹French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952.
¹⁰Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 239A, household 468, Charles P. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹¹Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1855 Massachusetts State Census, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 258, household 454, Chas. P. Maxfield family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 August 2022); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹²Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 490, p. 738-9, household 1441, Charles P. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹³Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1865 Massachusetts State Census, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 213, household 415, Charles P. Maxfield family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 August 2013); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁴1865 Massachusetts State Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 286, John T. Maxfield.
¹⁵"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 220, p. 126, e. 167, New Bedford Deaths, 1869, Elizabeth Maxfield.
¹⁶Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 605, p. 202A, household 429, Benjamin Tripp family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁷1870 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 605, p. 117A, household 382, Sarah Taber family.
¹⁸Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, enumeration district (ED) 39, p. 111B, household 245, Theodore A. Barton family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁹Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, Rhode Island, Deaths 1886: 747
²⁰Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 323.
²¹"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 48, p. 70, e. 213, New Bedford Deaths, 1850, Alice L. Maxfield.
²²Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 323.
²³Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 3, p. 114; Rural Cemetery, New Bedford.
²⁴Elisha Leonard, "Leonard Papers," Rural Cemetery, New Bedford; , New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
²⁵"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 60, p. 85, e. 98; New Bedford Marriages 1851; Lucas-Maxfield.
²⁶Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 305.
²⁷Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, v. 1, p. 304.
²⁸Daughters of the American Revolution, "DAR Genealogical Research System: Descendant Database Search," database, Daughters of the American Revolution (dar.org, accessed 15 January 2023), Ancestor #: A007091.
²⁹1880 Census, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, ED 39, p. 111B, household 245, Theodore A. Barton family.

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