Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

WILLIAM McCRILLIS⁶ MAXFIELD (Eliphalet⁵, Nathaniel⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 25 December 1793 to Eliphalet Maxfield and his wife Jane McCrillis.^[1] He died at China, Kennebec County, Maine, on 4 January 1867.^[2] He married at Camden, Hancock County, Maine, on 17 January 1819 MARY PARKMAN,^[3] who was born at Duckstrap, Camden, on 9 November 1798,^[4] and died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17 July 1889.^[5]

The first of eleven children, William moved several times with his family of origin. They lived in Durham until William was about 14, then lived in Union, Lincoln County, Maine for a few years, and when William was 16 they began to reside at Appleton, Lincoln County. During the War of 1812 William served in the Massachusetts militia in Capt. Asher Palmer's Company, and in Captain Noyes Payson's Company.^[6]

Married in 1819, the 1820 Census reported the William Maxfield family at Searsmont, Hancock County, consisting of a male 26-44 (William 26) a female 16-25 (Mary 21) and a male 10-15 (unidentified). William was a farmer.^[7]

The 1830 Census and every census thereafter reported the William Maxfield family at China. That 1830 Census reported the couple in their 30s (William 36, Mary 31), and 4 daughters, two 5-10 (Sarah 9, Mary 7), and two under 5 (Ann 4, Lydia 1).^[8]

Two of their children died in November of 1833: Ann, seven years old, and Sarah, thirteen. In 1840 William was reported in "manufacture and trade" at China. The family consisted of a couple in their 40s (William 46, Mary 41), a girl 15-20 (Mary 17), a girl 10-15 (Lydia 11), two boys 5-10 (William 9, Edwin 5), and a boy under 5 (Henry 1).^[9]

Daughter Mary married in 1847. Her husband, William Chase Stevens, was a Mesthodist minister, who would eventually serve churches in Bethel, Lock Mills, Bryant's Pond, Cumberland, Searboro, Peru, Durham, Hartford, Livermore, York Village, and New Portland, Maine.^[10]

The William and Mary Maxfield family was counted in China, Maine, in the 1850 Census as follows:^[11]

In 1860 the family was recorded in China, Maine, as follows:^[12]

However, two sons, Edwin and Henry, appear to have also been counted elsewhere. In Benton, Kennebec County, Edwin A. Maxfield, 24, shoemaker, was recorded in the household of Daniel B. Abbott.^[13] "H. W. Macksfield," probably our Henry W., was also recorded in Benton, in the household of David (age 50) and Betsey E. (age 48) Hanson.^[14]

Edwin, Henry and Dana all fought in the Civil War. Dana enlisted on 18 September 1861 in Company I of the Massachusetts 22nd Regiment. He was wounded at Gaines' Mills on 14 April 1863 and received a disability discharge.^[15] Henry enlisted on 1 October 1862 in Company G of the Maine 24th Infantry Regiment. He was mustered out on 25 August 1863.^[16] Edwin, who married in July of 1863, enlisted on 14 July 1864 in Company G of the Maine 7th Infantry Regiment, transferred to Company G of the Maine 1st Infantry Regiment on 21 August. The military record states he was mustered out on 28 June 1865.^[17] But his death record states he died at Washington, D. C. on 18 August 1864 from congestion of the brain.

William married in 1861, Edwin in 1863, and Henry about 1869-70. However the father, William McCrillis Maxfield, died in 1867.

Son William had moved to Phniladelphia by 1867, where he worked in the textile industry as a pattern maker. In the 1870 Census he was reported there with his wife, two children and his mother, Mary Maxfield, 70.^[18] Daughter Lydia was reported at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachuestts, 35, seamstress, in the Massachusetts Hospital.^[19] She died on Christmas Day of that year, at Boston, with synovitis, which she had for four years, and ryaemia, which she had for 3 weeks.^[20] Henry, 32, house carpenter, lived at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, with his new wife.^[21] Dana, 29, was a hardware merchant at Toulon, Stark County, Illinois.^[22] That might seem far away, but it was where his Uncle Oren had made a home.

Dana moved on further west, and died at Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas. According to the death record he was "shot by a desperado."^[23] Mary (Parkman) Maxfield died at Philadelphia in 1889, aged 90 years.

William McCrillis Maxfield and his wife Mary Parkman had the following children:

1. SARAH JANE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Searsmont on 27 December 1820, d. at China on 12 November 1833.^[24]
2. MARY PARKMAN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 27 May 1823, d. on 17 February 1878;^[25] m. at China on 27 November 1847 The Reverend WILLIAM CHASE STEVENS^[26] b. at Windham, Cumberland County, Maine, on 8 April 1819, child of Chase Stevens and Joanna Godfrey, d. at Hartford, Oxford County, Maine, in April 1896.^[27]
3. ANN SOPHIA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 27 July 1826, d. there on 5 November 1833.^[28]
4. LYDIA WOOD⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 29 November 1828,^[29] d. at Boston on 25 December 1870.^[30]
5. WILLIAM PARKMAN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 7 April 1831
6. EDWIN AUGUSTUS⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 18 July 1835, d. at Washington, D. C., on 18 August 1864;^[31] m. at China on 23 July 1863 JULIETTE ETTA MITCHELL^[32] b. at China about Nov 1835, child of Jeremiah Mitchell, d. at China on 25 February 1865.^[33]
7. HENRY WHEELER⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 19 October 1838
8. DANA HANSON⁷ MAXFIELD b. at China on 17 February 1842, d. at Wellington on 27 April 1872.^[34]

¹Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): v/ 7, p. 64.
²Maine, Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta, Maine, Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, William Maxfield, 1867; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 February 2017).
³Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 14 September 2012), Maxfield-Parkman, 1819.
⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64.
⁵Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915, Mary Maxfield, 1889; index and images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 12 July 2012).
⁶"War of 1812 Pension Applications," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 August 2013), William M. Maxfield; Washington D.C.: National Archives. Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group Number 15.
⁷Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population, Searsmont, Hancock County, Maine, p. 569, William Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M33, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁸Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, China, Kennebec County, Maine, p. 13, William Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁹Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, China, Kennebec County, Maine, p. 107, Wm M. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64.
¹¹Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, China, Kennebec County, Maine, roll 258, p. 205B, household 114, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹²Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, China, Kennebec County, Maine, roll 440, p. 549, household 215, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹³1860 Census, Benton, Kennebec County, Maine, roll 440, p. 976, household 500, Daniel Abbott family.
¹⁴1860 Census, Benton, Kennebec County, Maine, p. 68, household 596, David Hanscom family.
¹⁵Historical Data Systems, comp., "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2013), Dana H. Maxfield.
¹⁶"U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," Henry W. Maxfield.
¹⁷"U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," Edwin A. Maxfield.
¹⁸Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, p. 339B, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁹1870 Census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, roll 642, p. 186A, household 3137, Massachusetts Hospital.
²⁰Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 11 September 2017), vol. 231, p. 215, e. 6000, Boston Deaths, 1870, Lydia W. Maxfield.
²¹1870 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, roll 610, p. 710A, household 1217, Henry W. Maxfield family.
²²1870 Census, Toulon, Stark County, Illinois, p. 453A, household 162, hotel.
²³China Village Cemetery, China, Kennebec County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 12 August 2017), Dana H. Maxfield; created and photo by West207.
²⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64; Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Sarah J. Maxfield, 1833.
²⁵Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64
²⁶"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Stevens-Maxfield, 1847.
²⁷Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64
²⁸Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 64; Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Ann S. Maxfield, 1833.
²⁹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 65.
³⁰"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 231, p. 215, e. 6000, Boston Deaths, 1870, Lydia W. Maxfield.
³¹Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 65; Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Edwin A. Maxfield, 1864.
³²"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Maxfield-Mitchell, 1863.
³³Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Julia E. Maxfield, 1865.
³⁴Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 65; Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Dana B. Maxfield, 1872.

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