Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

In 1850 Ruth Maxfield, age 20, was living in Manchester, apparently in a women's boarding house (1850 Census--432:37). Five years later she gave birth to a child in Goshen. The 1860 Census reported Ruth and her daughter living with Ruth's father in Minnesota.

BELA BABB had married Alzina⁷ Maxfield, daughter of David and Thankful (Cutts) Maxfield, on 4 September 1851 (NMGR 8:17). In the 1860 Census they were living in Minnesota, recorded next to her father. The 1870 census reported Ruth Maxfield at Milo township, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, as the head of a household that included her daughter and father. The adjacent household in the census consisted of Alzina and Bela Babb and their six children. Alzina died in 1872.

Bela and Alzina's sister Ruth were married on 25 November 1875 (NMGR 8:17).

Ruth Maxfield had one child before her marriage:

1. EMELINE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 22 March 1855 (VR NH B--no name)

Information on this family can be found in:

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts: Additions and Corrections." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 8:17. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH.
• Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, ed. Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892. P. 191.
• Census records