Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

MELVINA A. COMSTOCK and Russell T. Maxfield published their intentions to marry at Goshen on 20 August 1862. Both were twenty-four years of age. They were married at Bradford, New Hampshire, on 28 August 1862 (VR NH M), recorded as follows:

From this record we learn that Melvina came from Stanstead, Quebec, where she was born about 1838, a child of Harry and Helen M. Comstock.

Melvina Maxfield died on 9 April 1875 (NMGR 7:69; His Gos 411).

ADELLA F. COLBY became the second wife of Russell T. Maxfield on 14 February 1877 (NMGR 7:69; Cutts 328). Adella was born at Canada in 1861 (NMGR 7:61), a child of Franklin Colby.

Russell and Adella Maxfield were reported in the 1880 Census (768:318C) at Goshen:

Russell Maxfield was reported in the 1900 Census (952:2:127A) at Goshen, born November 1837, a farmer and a widower. Although he was a widower of his first wife, he was probably divorced from Adella by this time. Adella Colby Maxfield married RUFUS L. DUDLEY at Newport, New Hampshire, on 1 May 1901 (F).

The 1910 census (866:4:192B) reported Russell T. Maxfield, age 72, divorced, living at Oak Street, Newport, New Hampshire. He was listed as a laborer, doing odd jobs.

Russell T. Maxfield died at Newport on 21 August 1914 (F).

Russell Maxfield and his first wife Melvina had the following children:

1. WILLIAM⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69)
   • b. at Goshen on 22 January 1864 (Cutts 328; F)
2. CELIA⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69; Cutts 328; F)
3. STEPHEN C.⁷ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:69; Cutts 328; F)
   • b. 1873 (OWT)
   • d. 2 November 1873 (OWT)

4. (not named)⁷ MAXFIELD
   • b/d. at Newbury, NH, on 20 April 1881 (stillborn) (VR NH B)

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 7:69. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. (F)
• Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, ed. Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892. Pp. 192,328. (Cutts)
• Nelson, Walter R. History of Goshen, New Hampshire. Concord, NH: Evans, 1957. p. 411. (His Gos)
• Census records. Other sources abbreviated above include:

  OWT

  One World Tree. Ancestry.com.

  VR NH B

  Bureau of Vital Statistics, State of New Hampshire, Concord, NH. Index of Births to 1900. microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Ut.

  VR NH M

  Bureau of Vital Statistics, State of New Hampshire, Concord, NH. Index to Marriages Up to 1900. microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Ut.