Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Third Generation

JOSEPH³ MAXFIELD (Joseph², John¹)was born at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts on 4 April 1737^[1] a son of Joseph Maxfield and his wife Joanna Richardson. He died sometime after 1810. He married about 1763 LOVE ________. She was born before 1755,^[2] and died at Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 11 July 1800.^[3]

Joseph Maxfield fought in the Seven Years War, known in America as the French and Indian War. Eighteen year old Joseph fought in Ebenezer Newell's company of Massachusetts soldiers from 3 May 1755 to 17 Decembr 1755.^[4] In March, 1756, he fought at Crown Point with a company from Salisbury under Captain William True.^[5]

Joseph Maxfield participated in the following land transactions in Salisbury and Newbury, Essex County and South Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire:

• 17 April 1760, Benjamin Morrell of Salisbury, Gentleman, sold to Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, for £ 65, a parcel of land at Salisbury, 6 ¾ acres.^[6]
• 2 September 1760, Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, sold to John Wood of Newbury, baker, for £ 10 13s 4d, two lots of land in Newbury, one lot fell to seller in the division of Hannah Richardson's estate, about 12 rods, the other lot, adjoining, fell to seller's brother Joshua Maxfield in the division of Hannah Richardson's estate, about 10 rods.^[7]
• January 1770 (date of signing not given; acknowledged 3 January), Joseph Maxfield and Joanna Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman and spinster, sold to Samuel Webster of Salisbury, for for £ 1 16s, all our right to the long wharf in Salisbury at Webster's Point, 1/24 part.^[8]
• 18 March 1779, Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, sold to Benjamin Evans of Salisbury, Gentleman, for £ 1725, a lot in Salisbury 28 ¾ acres.^[9]
• 25 March 1779, Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, sold to Ezekiel Evans of Salisbury, yeoman, for £ 105, a parcel of salt marsh in Salisbury in Hacclale pacelle, 3 ½ acres.^[10]
• 6 October 1779, Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, sold to Ezekiel Evans for £ 630, a lot in South Hampton, 12 acres, also a parcel of thatch banks in South Hampton, 3 acres at a place called Cow Commons.^[11]
• 13 November 1779, Joshua Maxfield of Wear, New Hampshire, yeoman, sold to Joseph Maxfield of Salisbury, yeoman, for £ 500, all my rights to land and saltmarsh left to me by my father Joseph Maxfield, deceased, lying in Salisbury and South Hampton.^[12]

Joseph Maxfield was a member of Second Church (Congregational), Salisbury, in 1778.^[13]

Some time between the last land transaction noted above, in 1779, and the birth of his last child in 1784, the Joseph Maxfield family moved to Weare. Census records from 1790 and 1800 report the family living there.

The 1790 census,^[14] which misspelled his name "Joseph Mansfield," reported a household of three males over 16, 2 males under 16, and 3 females. The three males over sixteen would probably be Joseph (father), Joseph (son) and Richard. There should have been three males under 16: Benjamin, Amos and Thomas. Perhaps one was absent at the time of the census. The three females would be Love (mother), Love (daughter), and Prudence.

The 1800 census,^[15] with the possible persons referred to, is as follows:

• male 45+ 1 (Joseph 63)
• female 45+ 1 {Love)
• male 16-26 1 (Amos)
• female 16-26 1 (Love 29)
• male 10-16 1 (Thomas 15)
• female 10-16 1 (unidentified)

The 1810 census^[16] reported Joseph Maxfield at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, his household consisting of one male over 45, one female over 45, and one female 26-44. The male is, no doubt Joseph; the younger female is probably daughter Love. The older female could be a housekeeper or an otherwise unknown second wife. I have no further record of Joseph Maxfield beyond the 1810 census.

Joseph and Love Maxfield had the following children:

1. JANE⁴ MAXFIELD "Jenny" b. at Salisbury on 21 April 1764;^[17] m. at Weare on 12 April 1785 EBENEZER MARSHALL.^[18] Jenny was bp. at Second Church (Congregational) Salisbury on 29 October 1766.^[19]
2. JOSEPH⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 28 January 1767.
3. RICHARD⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 12 August 1769.
4. LOVE⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 11 July 1771;^[20] d. at Bradford on 16 August 1858;^[21] the 1830 census^[22] reported her at Bradford, a household of one female 50-59; The 1850 census^[23] reported her in Warner, Merrimack Co., NH, age 78, in the household of her niece Mary Bailey, wife of Elbridge Bailey and daughter of Richard Maxfield.
5. BENJAMIN⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 18 July 1776.
6. PRUDENCE⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Salisbury on 28 November 1778;^[24] d. at Vermont on 1865;^[25] m. at Weare on 31 July 1800 JOHN E. CARR.^[26]
7. probably AMOS⁴ MAXFIELD b. prob. at Weare bet. 1774 and 1784.
8. THOMAS⁴ MAXFIELD b. at Weare on 6 October 1784.

¹Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 152.
²Second Census of the United States: 1800, population, Weare, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, 20:648, ; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
³Dean Maxfield Mullavey, "Re: John Maxfield d. 1703, Salisbury MA," Maxfield Family Genealogy Forum, discussion list, 8 April 2000 (genforum.genealogy.com/maxfield : accessed 2012), No. 153.
⁴"Massachusetts Soldiers in Colonial Wars," database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002, American Ancestors (americanancestors.com : accessed 13 September 2012); citing Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the Seventeenth-Century Conflicts.
⁵"Salisbury (Mass.) Men Enlisted for the Expedition Against Crown Point, in the Companies of Capt. Caleb Cushing and Capt. Wm. True," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 22 (1868): 336.
⁶Essex County, Massachusetts, Land Records, 119:101-02, accessed 3 July 2013; Essex County Courthouse, Salem, Massachusetts (familysearch.org).
⁷Ibid., 110:153.
⁸Ibid., 128:48-49.
⁹Ibid., 137:38.
¹⁰Ibid., 150:234.
¹¹Rockingham County Registry of Deeds. Deeds, 112:521; digital images, (nhdeeds/rockingham : accessed 2012).
¹²Essex County, Massachusetts, Land Records, 138:50-51.
¹³French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952.
¹⁴First Census of the United States: 1790, population, Weare, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, p. 334, Joseph Mansfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M637, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁵Second Census of the United States: 1800, population, Weare, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, roll 20, p. 648, Joseph Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012 ); NARA microfilm publication M32; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁶Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Bradford, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, roll 24, p. 522, Joseph Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M25, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁷Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
¹⁸New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Marshall-Maxfield, 1785; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 January 2023).
¹⁹Hoyt David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 449.
²⁰Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
²¹French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
²²Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 76, p. 238, Love Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²³Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 436, p. 183A, household 447, Elbridge Bailey family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²⁴Vital Records of Salisbury, 152.
²⁵Sand Hill Cemetery, Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 November 2017), Prudence Carr; Created by: Star.
²⁶New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Carr-Maxfield, 1800.

French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, NH, about 1952.

Massachusetts. Essex County. Land Records. Essex County Courthouse, Salem, Massachusetts (familysearch.org).

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New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire. New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages. Digital images. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2023.

Rockingham County Registry of Deeds. "Land Records." Digital images. Rockingham County Registry of Deeds. nhdeeds/rockingham : 2012.

"Salisbury (Mass.) Men Enlisted for the Expedition Against Crown Point, in the Companies of Capt. Caleb Cushing and Capt. Wm. True." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22 (1868): 336.

Sand Hill Cemetery, Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2017.

United States, Department of the Census. First Census of the United States: 1790, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

United States Department of the Census. Second Census of the United States: 1800, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012 .

United States Department of the Census. Third Census of the United States: 1810, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

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