Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

JAMES QUIMBY6 MAXFIELD (Eliphalet5-4-3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at New Hampshire on 14 May 1803,[1] and died at Saint Albans, Kennebec County, Maine, on 28 July 1872.[2] His parents were Eliphalet Maxfield and his wife Judith Alley. James married first at Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, on 18 June 1848 BETSY WINSLOW BUTLER,[3] a child of John and Deborah (Carr) Butler, who was born at Mount Vernon on 10 June 1806 and died there on 7 February 1833.[4] James married second at Mount Vernon on 1 January 1834 MARY HOWLAND BUTLER,[5] also a child of John and Deborah (Carr) Butler, who was born about 1808-9 and died on 8 March 1836.[6] James married third ELVIRA FOSTER,[7] a child of Richard and Clarissa Harlow (Barton) Foster. Elvira was born on 17 November 1806[8] and died on 8 March 1848.[9] James married fourth SARAH JANE BROWN,[10] who was born at Maine on 5 April 1825, and died on 23 September 1908.[11] Sarah married second at Saint Albans on 14 April 1873 BENJAMIN IRELAND.[12]

James Quimby Maxfield grew up at Sandwich, Strafford County, New Hampshire, the fourth of ten children. Some time in his teen-age years has family moved to Mount Vernon. He was described in census records as a miller (1850, 1870) and farmer (1860). His residence, based on census records and birth records of his children, was at Mount Vernon 1826-38, Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, in 1840, back in Mount Vernon 1849-50, Corinna, Penobscot County, in 1860, and Saint Albans 1870-72.

James' first marriage lasted only six years before his first wife, Betsy, died at the age of twenty-six. He was left with children ages 6, 4, and 3. Eleven months later James married his first wife's sister, Mary. She was twenty-six years old when they married, and died two years later at the age of twenty-eight. They had one child. The death of his second wife left James with children ages 9, 8, 6, and 1. Four months later James married his third wife, Elvira. He was 33, she 29.

James was reported in the 1840 Census engaged in manufacture or trade at Skowhegan. The family consisted of one male and two females in their thirties (James 37, Elvira 37, the other female not identified), 2 males and one female ages 10-14 (Moses 13, Mary 12, John 11), and one male under 5 (James 2).[13]

James and Elvira had one child. Elvira died in 1848, after twelve years of marriage, age 41. Son Moses, was at sea on a whaling cruise, daughter Mary had married in 1847. At the time of death of his third wife, James' other living children were 18 and 10. Three months later James married his fourth wife, Sarah Jane. He was 45, she 23.

The James Maxfield family of Mount Vernon was reported in the 1850 Census as follows:[14]

Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Birthplace Other
James Maxfield 46 M miller $2200 NH
S. J. Maxfield 24 F Me
J. D. Maxfield 13 M Me
H. B. Maxfield 1 M Me
John B. Maxfield 21 M miller Me

Son Moses, back from his whaling cruise, resided in 1850 at Skowhegan, where he worked as a miller.[15]

The 1860 Census reported this family at Corinna, consisting of James Maxfield, 56, farmer, Sarah J. Maxfield, 35, Benjamin H. Maxfield, 6, James D. Maxfield, 22, miller, and Sylvia S. Maxfield, 19. Sylvia was the wife of James D. Maxfield.[16] James and Sarah's first child, Horace, drowned in 1853. Son Moses, with family, was working at Pittsfield, Somerset County, as a miller.[17] Son John, with family, was working at Dexter, Penobscot County, as a miller.[18]

The family of James and Sarah Maxfield was reported in Saint Albans, Somerset County, Maine, in the 1870 Census as follows:[19]

Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth Other
Maxfield, James 66 m w miller $1400 $500 ME
Maxfield, Sarah J. 45 F W keeping house NH
Maxfield, Horace B. 16 M W works in grist mill ME
Maxfield, Laurett M. 9 F W at home ME
Maxfield, Flora A. 5 F W at home ME blind, deaf and dumb

Horace B. Maxfield in 1870 is the same person as Benjamin H. Maxfield in 1860. Son Moses was still at Pittsfield working as a miller.[20] Son John was farming at Ripley, Somerset County.[21] Son James, with family, worked at Guilford, Piscataquis County, Maine, as a miller.[22]

James Quimby Maxfield died in 1872, leaving his widow Sarah with children ages 18, 11, and 7. Eight months later Sarah married Benjamin Ireland. Sarah died in 1908.

James Quimby Maxfield and his first wife Betsy had the following children:

  1. MOSES7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on 30 October 1826
  2. MARY ELIZABETH7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon in 2 March 1828,[23] d. on 4 February 1908;[24] m. at Thompson, Windham County. Connecticut, on 21 February 1847 NEWELL CARPENTER b. at Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on 24 January 1823, child of John Carpenter and Abigail Healy[25], d. on 13 February 1904.[26] Newell had previously m (1). on 15 January 1845 Charlotte Arnold, a child of Nathan Arnold, d. on 12 November 1845.[27]
  3. JOHN BUTLER7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on Apr 23, 1829.

James Quimby Maxfield and his second wife, Mary Howland Butler, had the following child:

  1. OLIVIA7 MAXFIELD b. about November-December 1834, d. on 8 November 1835.[28]

James Quimby Maxfield and his third wife, Elvira, had the following child:

  1. JAMES DWIGHT7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on 17 February 1838

James Quimby Maxfield and his fourth wife, Sarah, had the following children:

  1. HORACE VALENTINE7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on 20 May 1849,[29] d. there on 27 May 1853.[30]
  2. HORACE BENJAMIN7 MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on 4 June 1854.
  3. LAURA MAY7 MAXFIELD b. at Maine on 6 October 1860, d. on 24 October 1936;[31] m (1). at Saint Albans on 13 October 1875 FREEMAN G. MOODY;[32] m (2). on 3 December 1903 LEONARD RIGGS[33] b. on 17 July 1858, d. on 19 July 1919.[34]
  4. FLORA A.7 MAXFIELD b. at Maine abt 1864-5, d. at Saint Albans on 5 August 1874.[35]

    NOTES

    1Genealogical Society of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 22 October 2012), James Maxfield, 1803
    2Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine, Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910," Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 August 2013), James Maxfield, 1872.
    3Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 14 September 2012), Maxfield-Butler, 1826.
    4Butler Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 11 March 2023), Betsey Winslow Butler Maxfield; Created by: David C. Miller.
    5"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Maxfield-Butler, 1833.
    6Butler Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Mary H. Maxfield; Created by: Dale & Patti, Photo added by Mr White.
    7"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Maxfield-Horten/Foster, 1836-7.
    8Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): v. 8, p. 20.
    9Stevens Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, Find a Grave, database (findagrave.com : accessed 11 March 2023), Elvira Maxfield; created by sueb, Photo added by melissaevameyer.
    10"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Maxfield-Brown, 1848.
    11Bean Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 12 August 2017), Sarah J. Maxfield; created and photo by B. Leighton.
    12"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Ireland-Maxfield, 1873.
    13Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, p. 160, James Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
    14Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, roll 257, p. 374B, household 14, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
    151850 Census, Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine, roll 268, p. 50A, household 144, household of Sarah Dyer.
    16Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Corinna, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 447, p. 71, household 543, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
    171860 Census, Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine, roll 452, p. 943, household 486, Moses Maxfield family.
    181860 Census, Dexter, Penobscot County, Maine, roll 447, pp. 27-28, household 213, John Maxfield family.
    19Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Saint Albans, Somerset County, Maine, roll 559, pp. 447A-447B, household 270, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 August 2017); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
    201870 Census, Pittsfield, Somerset County, Maine, roll 559, p. 333B, household 198, Moses Maxfield family.
    211870 Census, Ripley, Somerset County, Maine, roll 559, p. 348A, household 16, John Maxfield family.
    221870 Census, Guilford, Piscataquis County, Maine, roll 556, p. 99B, household 90, J. D. Maxfield family.
    23"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Mary Elizabeth Maxfield, 1828.
    24White Creek Cemetery, White Creek, Adams County, Wisconsin, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 16 April 2023), Newell-Mary Elizabeth Carpenter; Created and photo by: David C. Miller.
    25"Adams County Genealogical Sketches," database, Wisconsin Genealogy and History Resources (WIRoots.org : accessed 26 February 2014), Transcribed by Christy Janke; extracted from Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin (Chicago: G. A. Ogle & Co., 1901), pp. 299-300.
    26White Creek Cemetery, White Creek, Newell-Mary Elizabeth Carpenter; Created and photo by: David C. Miller.
    27"Adams County Genealogical Sketches," Transcribed by Christy Janke.
    28Butler Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Olivia C. Maxfield; Created by: Dale & Patti, Photo added by MWade.
    29"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," Horace Valentine Maxfield, 1849.
    30"[Multiple News Items]," Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, 4 June 1853; 19th Century U. S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark : accessed 26 February 2014). p. 2.
    31Glenside Cemetery, Winthrop, Kennebec County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 12 August 2017), Leonard-Laura Riggs; created by oldsteps.
    32"Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," Moody-Maxfield, 1875.
    33Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," v. 8, p. 20.
    34Glenside Cemetery, Winthrop, Leonard-Laura Riggs; created by oldsteps.
    35"Maine, Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910," Flora Maxfield, 1874; Saint Albans Village Cemetery, Saint Albans, Somerset County, Maine, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 15 August 2017), Flora A. Maxfield; created by Dale & Patti, photo by PMSmith.

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