Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation

He was in the lumber business when a young man, and carried on an extensive business throughout the State. He settled in Bangor later in life, having acquired a handsome fortune for those times.--French

ABBIE C. BURR, daughter of Warren Burr and Eliza Emerson of Brewer, Maine, married Wentworth Maxfield on 9 October 1861 (NMGR 7:70). She was born at Brewer, Penobscot County, Maine, on May 1846 (1900 census; F).

The 1870 Census (554:1:221A) reported this Maxfield family at Milford, Penobscot County, Maine. Wentworth, age 32, had real estate of $800, a personal estate of $545, and was working on lumber. Abbie C. Maxfield was 25, and they had one child, Anna B. Maxfield, age 8, in school.

The 1880 Census (486:483A) also found this family in Milford:

The 1900 Census (597:11B) reported Wentworth Maxfield, born June 1838, lumberman, and his wife, Abbie C. Maxfield, born May 1846, who had two children, one still living, resident at 240 Main Street, Bangor, Maine.

Wentworth Maxfield died at Bangor on 11 January 1906 (NMGR 7:70).

Wentworth and Abbie Maxfield had the following children:

1. ANNA BURR⁸ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:70)
   • b. at Maine abt 1861/2 (1870, 1880 censuses)
   • m. ROBERT ELMS (NMGR 7:70)
2. LENA MAY⁸ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:70)
   • b. abt 1875 (1874/5 from age at death; 1875/6 on 1880 Census)
   • d. in 1890 (age 15 years) (NMGR 7:70)

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 7:70-71. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH.
• Census Records.