Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation


PASCAL7 MAXFIELD (William6-5, David4, probably Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Fairfax, Vermont, on 3 July 1812 (VR Vt, VR Fairfax) a child of William Maxfield and his first wife Sophia.

Pascal Maxfield married PHIDELIA PERSONS probably some time before 1835. Fidelia was born at Georgia, Vermont, on 11 November 1816 (VT VR). Her mother's name was Martha.

Pascal Maxfield was reported at Panton, Addison County, Vermont, in the 1840 census (538:161). In each succeeding census to 1880 he was reported at Vergennes, Vermont. He was a physician. The 1850 census (Addison Co., 229) reported the family as follows:

Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Birthplace Other
Pascal Maxfield 39 M Doctor VT
Phidelia Maxfield 34 F VT
Gilbert D Maxfield 14 M VT school
Anne H Maxfield 5/12 F VT
Rachel Gregory 25 F VT

Pascal's name is often spelled Paschal. His wife's name is spelled Phidelia, Fedilia, and Phidia. Their daughter is Anne, Annette, or Annesett. The Pascal Maxfield family often had servants: Rachel Gregory in 1850, Susan Ryan in 1860, and two African American servants in 1880. Son Gilbert had left home by the 1860 census. The 1870 and 1880 censuses reported daughter Annette and her husband Samuel Ives in the household. Samuel in 1870 worked in a boot shop; in 1880 he was a steamboat proprietor.

Phidelia Maxfield died at Vergennes on 5 October 1833, from consumption (VT VR). Pascal Maxfield, then age 71, married 36 year old ANN E. KIMBALL at Vergennes on 14 Novwember 1884 (VT VR). Paschal Maxfield died at Vergennes on 28 Febroary 1889 from "softening of the brain" (VT VR). His widow Ann then married at Waterbury, Vermont, on 23 May 1889 LEWIS J. WHITE, who was born at Waterbury about 1840/1 (VT VR).

Pascal Maxfield and his first wife Phidelia Persons had the following children:

  1. GILBERT BELDEN8 MAXFIELD b. at Vergennes on 13 March 1836
  2. ANNETTE8 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Vergennes about May 1850 (VR VT; Census records)
    • d. at Vergennes on 3 April 1912 (VT D)
    • m. at Vergennes on 2 October 1869 SAMUEL B. IVES (VR VT)
      • Annett Maxfield of Vergennes, age 20, b. Vergennes to Paschal Maxfield and Fidelia, and Samuel B. Iris, Oct. 2, 1869 by W. L. Smith, minister, Vergennes
      • b. at Vermont about 1839 (1838/9 in 1880 census; 1839/40 in 1880 census)


REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
VR Fairfax
Vital Records of Fairfax, Vermont. www.newenglandancestors.org
VR Vt
State of Vermont. General Index to Vital Records. microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Ut.
VT D
Vermont Deaths and Burials, 1871-1965. Family Search (familysearch.org).
VT VR
Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954. Family Search (familysearch.org). Accessed 14 June 2011.

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