Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

ASA⁶ MAXFIELD (Nathan⁵, Nathaniel⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Loudon, Rockingham County (now Merrimack County) New Hampshire, on 16 May 1812, a child of Nathan Norton Maxfield and his wife Hannah Hill.^[1] He died on 4 August 1881.^[2] He married at Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, on 2 February 1834 DELISHA ELDRIDGE^[3] who was born at Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 14 April 1817, and died at Exeter on 23 May 1899.^[4]

The first of five children, Asa grew up for his first ten years at Loudon. He then moved with his family of origin to Exeter.

The 1840 Census reported the Asa Maxfield family in Exeter, however the record does not entirely agree with what we know of this family from other sources. According to that census record the family consisted of one male and one female in their 20s (Asa 28, Delisha 23), one male and one female between 5 and 10 (Samuel 5, Emily 3), and one male under 5 (Orlando 1).^[5]

The Asa Maxfield family was reported in Exeter in the 1850 Census as follows:^[6]

Son Orlando died the month before the census, age eleven, from "mercury fits."^[7]

The 1860 census reported this family consisted of Asa, 48, farmer, Delitia, 43, Mary H., 17, George W., 14, Ellen D, 11, and Hattie A., 6. All of the children were in school.^[8] Son Samuel was reported living at Exeter with his wife and child.^[9] Emily had married in 1858.

This family was still in Exeter at the time of the 1870 Census but had shrunk considerably:^[10]

Of the children: Mary had married in 1862, Ellen in 1868. Son George, 25, was reported living in a boarding house in Bangor, where he worked as a clerk in a store.^[11]

Still in Exeter in 1880, the Census reported Asa, age 68, farmer, and Delisha, age 63.^[12] George had married in 1881. Hattie, age 25, was working as an attendant at the Temporary Asylum for the Chronic Insane at Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.^[13]

Concerning son George Maxfield: He was reported in the 1880 Census at 9 Maple Street, Bangor. Age 36. He worked as a butcher, his wife Annie was 31.^[14] The 1910 Census reported them at 60 Woodbury Street, Bangor. George, 64, worked as a broker of timber land.^[15] In 1820 George W. Maxfield, 74, widower, lived alone at 82 Pine Street, Bangor.^[16]

Asa and Delisha Maxfield had the following children:

1. SAMUEL ASA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Exeter on 12 November 1834
2. EMILY J.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Maine abt 1836-7;^[17] m. at Exeter on 12 November 1858 AARON B. ROBINSON.^[18]
3. ORLANDO⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Maine about 1839-40. d. at Exeter on March 1850.^[19]
4. MARY H.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Exeter on 13 July 1843,^[20] d. at Brewer, Penobscot County, on 15 June 1903;^[21] m (1). at Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 1 July 1862 MELVIN WOODBURY b. about 1839-40.^[22] Mary m(2). WILLIAM DEERING.^[23]
5. GEORGE W.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Exeter on 9 December 1845,^[24] d. on 6 December 1925;^[25] m. at Bangor on 16 January 1871 ANNIE M. BRIDGES^[26] b. at Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine on 24 October 1847, child of Edmund Bridges and Laura Harden, d. at Bangor on 24 Nopvember 1917.^[27]
6. ELLEN DELISHA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Exeter on 1848, d. on 1907;^[28] m. at Garland, Penobscot County, on 15 April 1868 AZRO HILLIARD JONES^[29] b. on 1845, d. on 1906.^[30]
7. HATTIE ADA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Maine on 12 June 1854, d. on 25 February 1927;^[31] m. at Penobscot County on 1887 AZRO A. BODGE^[32] b. on 22 January 1854, d. on 28 July 1929.^[33]

¹Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:68.
²Vickery Cemetery, Exeter Center, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 14 August 2017), Asa Maxfield; created by Dale & Patti, photo by mday421.
³Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 14 September 2012), Maxfield-Eldridge, 1834.
⁴Maine, Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta, Maine, Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Delucia Maxfield, 1899; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 28 February 2017).
⁵Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, p; 266, Asa Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 265, p. 125A, household 138, Asa Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁷Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, mortality schedule, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, p. 1, Orlanda Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 February 2013).
⁸Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 446, pp. 738-739, household 328, Asa Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁹1860 Census, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 446, p. 736, household 310, Samuel Maxfield family.
¹⁰Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 553, p. 521B, household 313, Asa Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 31 January 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹¹1870 Census, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 552, p. 168A, household 824, boarding house of John Sargent.
¹²Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, enumeration district (ED) 12, roll 485, p. 511B, household 209, Asa Maxfield fmily; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2017); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹³1880 Census, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, ED 887, p. 65A, household 631, Temporary Asylum fro the Chronic Insane.
¹⁴1880 Census, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, ED 31, roll 486, p. 253A, household 291, George Maxfield family.
¹⁵Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, enumeration district (ED) 144, p. 12A, household 267, George W. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 February 2014); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁶Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, enumeration district (ED) 58, p. 10A, household 176, George W. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 March 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁷1850 Census, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 265, p. 125A, household 138, Asa Maxfield family.
¹⁸"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Robinson-Maxfield, 1858.
¹⁹1850 Census, Mortality Schedule, Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine, p. 1, , Orlanda Maxfield.
²⁰Genealogical Society of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 22 October 2012), Mary Maxfield, 1843
²¹Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Mary H. Deering, 1903.
²²New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 28049, Woodbury-Maxfield, 1862; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 27 August 2013).
²³Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 7, p. 69.
²⁴"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," George Maxfield, 1845.
²⁵Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 14 August 2017), George W Maxfield; created by Bob Ottinger.
²⁶"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Maxfield-Bridges, 1871.
²⁷Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, index card, Death, Annie M. Maxfield, 1917.
²⁸Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 15 August 2011), Ellen D. Maxfield Jones; Created and photo by: Jay Boone.
²⁹"Married," Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, 2 March 1868; 19th Century U. S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark : accessed 26 February 2014).
³⁰Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Azro Jones; Created by: Jay Boone.
³¹Corinthian Cemetery, Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 13 August 2017), Ozro-Hattie Bodge; created by Stuart Strout Woodside Skolfield, photo by Dale & Patti.
³²"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Bodge-Maxfield, 1887.
³³Corinthian Cemetery, Corinth, Ozro-Hattie Bodge; created by Stuart Strout Woodside Skolfield, photo by Dale & Patti.

Bangor Daily Whig & Courier. Bangor, Maine. 2 March 1868.

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