Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Third Generation

SAMUEL³ MAXFIELD (John^2-1) was born at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 12 April 1714,^[1] a son of John Maxfield and his wife Sarah Ordaway . He died at Salisbury on 17 October 1785^[2]. He married at Salisbury on 13 January 1741/2 JEMIMA EATON^[3]. She was born at Salisbury on 2 October 1717^[4], a daughter of Samuel and Hannah Eaton.

Jemima Maxfield transferred her church membership from First Church, Salisbury, to Second Church, Salisbury (both Congregational) on 19 January, 1755^[5]. Children Henry, Hannah, Martha, Dudley, and Sarah had already been baptized at Second Church on 16 September 1753.

Samuel Maxfield served in the military for a total of five days, 18-22 September, 1746, in Captain Estes Hatch's Company^[6]. This occured during a war between France and Britain, called King George's War, or the War of Austrian Succession. Perhaps Samuel joined in preparedness to defend communities from French-inspired Indian raids.

Samuel Maxfield was described as a caulker (one who puts caulking between the boards of a ship) in two land transactions in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. On 15 January 1771 Maxfield sold to Jonathan Walton, miller, for £ 12, two acres of saltmarsh in Seabrook, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, which he had acquired through his father's will^[7]. On 4 May 1785 he sold to John Eastman of Hampton, Rockingham County, Gentleman, and Joseph Clifford Sanborn of Candia, Rockingham County. for £ 80, eighty acres in Candia^[8].

Samuel Maxfield and his wife Jemina Eaton had the following children:

1. JOHN⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 25 April 1742^[9]; d. at Salisbury on 24 January 1744/5^[10].
2. HENRY⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 17 February 1743/4.
3. HANNAH⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 17 April 1748^[11]; bp. at Second Church (Congregational), Salisbury, on 16 September 1753^[12]; m. at Haverhill, Essex County, on 15 April 1767 TOOTHAKER WEBSTER EMERSON^[13], who was b. at Haverhill on 31 October 1740^[14], d. at Salem, Rockingham County, on 19 January 1786^[15], child of James and Mary (Webster) Emerson. Hannah and her husband lived at Salem.
4. MARTHA⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 7 June 1750^[16]; bp. at Second Church (Congregational), Salisbury, on 16 September 1753^[17]; d. at Salisbury on 28 September 1824^[18]; purchased on 12 October 1812 for $ 600 from James Rowell of Amesbury mariner, "one undivided half of a piece of land, 7 rods, in Salisbury, at the Mills, together with one undivided half of the dwelling house and shop standing thereon"^[19]; her nephew Samuel (son of Dudley) owned the other half; purchased on 28 November 1815 for $550 from her nephew Samuel Maxfield, the other half of this property^[20]; loaned $359 to Moses Sanders on 16 May 1816, with a 10 acre parcel in Bradford, Essex County, as security. As Sanders could not pay, the property came into her possession on 8 August 1818^[21]. In this transaction she was called, "Martha Maxfield of Amesbury, singlewoman."
5. DUDLEY⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 4 May 1752.
6. SARAH⁴ MAXFIELD bp. at Second Church (Congregational), Salisbury on 16 September 1753^[22]; m. at Bradford on 23 November 1769 NATHANIEL HOPKINSON^[23].
7. JUDITH⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 2 September 1754^[24]; bp. at Second Church (Congregational), Salisbury on 2 March 1755^[25]; d. at Salisbury on 1 November 1827^[26]; loaned £ 30 to William Lowell (her brother-in-law) of Amesbury, Essex County, mariner, on 12 May 1788, with a lot of 10 rods in Amesbury as security, to be paid back in 15 years^[27]; purchased on 13 May 1791 from Miriam Lowell (her sister), widow of William, "piece of land in Amesbury, 84 rods, with a dwelling house"^[28]; purchased on 16 October 1797 from the heirs of Gideon Lowell "piece of land at Amesbury at or near Lyons Mouth, 7 acres and right to front room in father's dwelling house of Amesbury at the ferry, and right to part of a pew at East Meetinghouse"^[29]; reported in 1800 Census at Amesbury, 1 female over 45, one male and one female 16-25^[30]; purchased on 23 February 1803 for $1400 from Eliphslet Pattee a farm of 80 acres at Salem, New Hampshire^[31]; sold the following day her 7 acre parcel in Amesbury to Valentine Bagley of Amesbury, mariner^[32]; reported in 1810 Census at Amesbury, 1 female over 45, 1 female 16-25^[33]; reported in 1820 Census at Amesbury, 1 female over 45, 1 female 16-25^[34]; sold on 24 May 1827 for $530 to John Kimball 2d of Salem, yeoman, parcel in Salem, "by virtue of a levy of execution by me recovered against Henry W. Sargent 24 May 1827."^[35]
8. MIRIAM⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 28 November 1759^[36]; d. 1792^[37]; m (intentions published at Amesbury on 14 August 1782) WILLIAM LOWELL^[38], b. at Amesbury on 23 November 1760, d. at Amesbury on 28 September 1788^[39], child of Gideon and Molly (Morrill) Lowell.

¹Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 153.
²Ibid., 586.
³Ibid., 416.
⁴Ibid., 81.
⁵"Records of the First Church of Salisbury, Mass., 1687-1764," Essex Institute Historical Collections, 16 (1879): 62.
⁶"Massachusetts Soldiers in Colonial Wars," database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002, American Ancestors (americanancestors.com : accessed 2012).
⁷Deeds, 102:156-57; digital images, Rockingham County Registry of Deeds (nhdeeds/rockingham : accessed 2012).
⁸Ibid., 120:303.
⁹Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
¹⁰Ibid., 586.
¹¹Ibid., 152.
¹²Hoyt David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 443.
¹³Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910), v. 2, p. 217; First Parish Church.
¹⁴Ibid., 1:121.
¹⁵New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Desths: Toothaker W. Emerson, 1786; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 25 February 2023).
¹⁶Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
¹⁷The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 443.
¹⁸Vital Records of Salisbury, 586.
¹⁹Essex County, Massachusetts, Land Records, 200:51, accessed 2013; Essex County Courthouse, Salem, Massachusetts (familysearch.org).
²⁰Ibid,, 207:224-25.
²¹Ibid., 216:265.
²²The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 443.
²³Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1907), 244.
²⁴Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
²⁵The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, 444.
²⁶Vital Records of Salisbury, 586.
²⁷Essex County, Massachusetts, Land Records, 154:256.
²⁸Ibid., 154:255-56.
²⁹Ibid., 164:216.
³⁰Second Census of the United States: 1800, population, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, 14:80; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013 ).
³¹Deeds 163:138-39, digital images, Rockingham County Registry of Deeds.
³²Essex County, Massachusetts, Land Records, 171:283.
³³Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, 18:130; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
³⁴Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, 49:168; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
³⁵Deeds 262:388, digital images, Rockingham County Registry of Deeds.
³⁶Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
³⁷Union Cemetery, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, Find a Grave, database (findagrave.com : 27 July 2018), Miriam Maxfield Lowell; Created by: Beensker.
³⁸Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1913), 418.
³⁹Union Cemetery, Find a Grave, William Lowell; Created by: Marilyn, Photo added by Jack Jr.

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