Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

THOMAS⁶ MAXFIELD (Levi⁵, David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Vermont about 1815, a child of Levi Maxfield and his wife Laura Richmond. He died at Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, on 15 September 1886.^[1] He married at Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on 22 September 1840 BELINDA JACKSON^[2] born at Ohio on 16 September 1822, died at Burnside, Lapeer County, Michigan, on 6 September 1904.^[3] Many records call her Melinda.

Thomas was born about a year before his father died. I do not know who helped his mother to raise him, or when he moved to Ohio. He married there in 1840. Based on the birthplaces of his children, he had moved to Michigan by 1843, and lived in Livingston County. All records that indicate an occupation call him a farmer.

The 1850 census for Hartland listed Thomas Maxfield, 33, farmer, Malinda, 28, Levi, 8, Laura, 7, David, 4, and Philo, 3. Thomas was born at Vermont, Malinda and Levi at Ohio, the last three at Michigan.^[4]

The 1860 census reported the family as follows:^[5]

By the 1870 census all of the earlier children had left home, but a new child had arrived. The record listed Thomas Maxfield, 54, farmer, Melinda, 50, keeping house, and William, 8, in school. According to this record, Thomas and Melinda could not write.^[6] Of the other children:

• Levi lived and farmed at Hartland with his wife.^[7]
• Laura Jane had married in 1869.
• David Orso would marry about 1870-1.
• Philo worked as a farm laborer in the home of Ezekiel and Almira Cook of Hartland.^[8]
• Clarissa, 17, did housework in the home of Ed and Rachel Clark of Hartland.^[9]

In 1878 their youngest child, William died at age 16 from inflamation of the brain.^[10]

The 1880 census reported the couple with no children at home. According to this census, Thomas, 65, farmer, was born in Canada, his parents in New York, his wife, Malinda, keeping house, was born in Ohio, as were her parents.^[11] Levi lived in Highland, Oakland County, Michigan, with his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law.^[12] David Orso lived at Hartland with his wife and four children.^[13] Philo lived at Rose, Oakland County, with his wife and his wife's young sister.^[14]

Thomas Maxfield died in 1886 from disentery.^[15]

In 1900 Melinda was living at Thetford, Genesee County, Michigan, in the home of her son Philo, with his wife, their daughter, and their niece.^[16] Belinda/Malinda died in 1904 from organic heart disease.^[17]

Thomas Maxfield and his wife Belinda Jackson had the following children:

1. LEVI H.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Ohio on 6 October 1840.
2. LAURA JANE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Michigan about 1843, d. at Fenton, Genesee County, on 6 February 1899;^[18] m(1). at Genesee County on 29 August 1869 JOSIAH PRATT b. at Vermont about 1823-4;^[19] Laura m(2). at Fenton on 10 January 1895 GEORGE W. MYERS b. at New York about 1853-4.^[20]
3. DAVID ORSO⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Hartland on 26 August 1845.
4. PHILO⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Rose on 4 October 1847
5. CLARISSA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Michigan on 18 November 1851, d. at Burnside on 28 June 1913;^[21] m. GEORGE A. CHAPMAN.^[22]
6. WILLIAM D.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Hartland on 17 April 1862, d. there on 17 December 1878.^[23]

¹Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Livingston County, p. 149, e. 46, Thomas Maxfield, 1886; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 June 2023).
²Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Cuyahoga County Marriage license applications, 1829-41, Maxfield-Jackson, 1840; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 13 May 2023).
³Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 190, Belinda Maxfield, 1904.
⁴Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 439A, household 1653, Thos. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁵Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 161, household 1179, Thos. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁶Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 131A, household 173, Thos. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁷1870 Census, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 130B, household 168, L. H. Maxfield family.
⁸1870 Census, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 135A, household 246, Ezekiel Cook family.
⁹1870 Census, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, p. 131B, household 187, Ed V. Clark family.
¹⁰Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Livingston County, p. 129, e. 4, William D. Maxfield, 1878.
¹¹Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 189, p. 130C, household 187, Thomas Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹²1880 Census, Highland, Oakland County, Michigan, ED 254, p. 135A, household 248, Levi Maxfield family.
¹³1880 Census, Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan, ED 189, p. 131A, household 211, Orso Maxfield family.
¹⁴1880 Census, Rose, Oakland County, Michigan, ED 268, p. 343A, household 2, Philo Maxfield family.
¹⁵Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Oakland County, certificate 563-49, Philo Maxfield, 1921.
¹⁶Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Thetford, Genesee County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 27, p. 9A, household 203, Philo Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁷Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 190, Belinda Maxfield, 1904.
¹⁸Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 484, Laura Myers, 1899.
¹⁹Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics., Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Genesee County, p. 234, e. 557, Pratt-Maxfield, 1869; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 June 2023).
²⁰Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Genesee County, p. 1, e. 2646, Myers-Pratt, 1895.
²¹Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 7, Clarsy Chapman, 1913.
²²"RootsWeb's World Connect Project", database, Roots Web (wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com : accessed 27 August 2013), Stephens, Needham, Kinney and Related Lines; undocumented and unnamed family tree submitted 16 January 2013 by Diane.
²³Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Livingston County, p. 129, e. 4, William D. Maxfield, 1878.

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