Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

Melvin Maxfield probably married AUGUSTA SHAW before 1880, when they appeared in the Census (942:201B) at Granville, Washington County, New York, in the household of Alonzo (45) and Samantha (38) Shaw, her parents. Melvin, age 25, was working on a farm. Augusta Maxfield was 24, born in New York, to a father born in New York and a mother born in Vermont.

Augusta died before 1900, when Melvin Maxfield was reported in the census (1172:27B) a widower. He was boarding in the household of Lorenzo and Sarah Gilman at Granville village and Town. He was a quarryman, working with slate. That same census (1172:11B) reported their son James living with his grandparents, Alonzo and Samantha Shaw, at Granville.

Melvin married MARIA about 1900. The 1910 census reported that they had been married ten years, but he was not married at the time of the 1900 census (1 June). Maria was born at New York about 1855 (1920 census). She had been married for the first time at age 15 (1930 census), or about 1870/1. The 1910 census (1087:2:164A) reported Melvin, Maria, and his son James at Granville:

This record noted that Maria had no children.

This family appeared in the 1920 Census (1273:6A), at 3 East Main Street, Granville:

Melvin Maxfield died at Granville on 4 November 1926 (VR NY).

The 1930 census (1657:11A) reported Maria Maxfield living with her step-son James at 3 Court Street, Granville. James, age 40 and still single, worked as a slate maker at a slate quarry. Maria was a widow, age 74.

Melvin Maxfield and his first wife Augusta had the following child:

1. JAMES⁷ MAXFIELD
   • b. at New York on January 1891 (1900 Census)
   • d. at Granville on 18 September 1944 (VR NY)

Information on this family can be found in:

• Census records

Other sources abbreviated above include:

VR NY

Vital Records of New York--Index. Accessed at Onondaga County Library, Syracuse, NY