Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation

WILLIAM PARKMAN⁷ MAXFIELD (William⁶, Eliphalet⁵, Nathaniel⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at China, Maine, on 7 April 1831 (NMGR 7:71), a child of William McCrillis Maxfield and his wife Mary Parkman.

HANNAH COFFIN HAYWARD married William P. Maxfield at Sidney, Maine, on 2 December 1861 (VR Ma 146:113:2019). The event was recorded in the Boston, Massachusetts records as follows:

Hannah was born at Sidney, Maine (marriage record), in October 1836 (1900 Census), to Edmund and Almira Hayward. Hannah taught school for several years in Massachusetts and Maine, before marriage (Valentine).

Harold Alton Valentine reported of his grandfather;

William P. Maxfield worked as a pattern maker in Boston when he was married in 1861; in Charlestown at the birth of a child in 1863, and later in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He "worked in the Charleston Navy Yard during the Civil War where he was a draftsman, some of his drawings exist at the yard for the castings used in the double turret monitor Monadnock. (Valentine).

The 1880 Census (1175:263C) reported this family at Philadelphia:

Mary Maxfield was William's mother.

The 1900 Census (1458:1:164) found an enlarged family at 1933 Parrish Street, Philadelphia:

The record further indicated that Hannah had two children, both living. Daughter Mary Francis had been married two years, and had two children, of whom one was living.

William P. Maxfield died at his home at 1993 Parish Street, Philadelphia, on 18 January 1908 (NMGR 7:71; Valentine).

Widow Hannah Maxfield fell and broke her hip in 1915 and remained bed ridden the rest of her life (Valentine). She was reported in the 1920 census at 1933 Parish Street, Philadelphia. Living with her were her son, William Edwin, an auto salesman, and her daughter and son-in-law and their two children. Hannah Maxfield died at her home, 1933 Parish Street, Philadelphia, on 27 March 1922 (NMGR 7:71;Valentine).

Hannah Coffin Hayward Maxfield

William and Hannah Maxfield had the following children:

1. MARY FRANCES⁸ MAXFIELD sometimes "Frances Mary"
   • b. at Charlestown on 20 September 1863 (VR Cha(H) 6:261:294)
     • female, b. 21 Mystic St. to William P and Hannah C, of Charlestown. father pattern-maker b. China, Me.; mother b. Sidney, Me.
   • Graduation. 1881 from Girls High School, Philadelphia, Pa (NMGR 7:71)
   • occ. taught school thirteen years in Philadelphia (Valentine)
   • Religion. Congregational in 1929, member, Central Congregational Church, Philadelphia (NMGR 7:71)
   • d. at Philadelphia on 3 March 1944 (Valentine)
   • m. on 10 June 1897 WILLIAM ALTON VALENTINE (NMGR 7:71)
     • b. at Bethel, Me, on 8 January 1870 (NMGR 7:71)
     • child of Alfred Valentine and Lauretta Goddard
     • college degree. 1891 in Mechanical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Me (NMGR 7:71)
     • occ. in 1929, consulting engineer, Budd Mfg. Co., Philadelphia (NMGR 7:71)
     • Religion. Congregational in 1929, member, Central Congregational Church, Philadelphia (NMGR 7:71)
2. WILLIAM EDWIN⁸ MAXFIELD
   • b. at Philadelphia on 30 June 1867 (NMGR 7:71)
   • d. on 7 January 1946 (Valentine)
   • m. on 29 March 1911 ALICE MORTIMER (NMGR 7:71)
     • d. on 23 January 1915 (NMGR 7:71)

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 7:71. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH.
• Valentine, Richard Alton. Ancestry World Tree. www.ancestry.com. Information supplied by Harold Alton Valentine (b. 1 September 1899). (Valentine)
• Valentine, Richard Alton, to Charles Maxfield. E-mail. 3 November 2000.
• Census records

VR Cha(H)

Holbrook, Jay Mack, ed. Massachusetts Vital Records: Charlestown. Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute.

VR Ma

Massachusetts Vital Records. Division of Vital Statistics, State House, Boston, Ma.; microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Ut.