ISAAC6 MAXFIELD (Warren5, Timothy4-3-2, John1) was born at New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 4 September 1803, a child of Warren Maxfield and his wife Rebecca Peckham. He died at Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, on 16 August 1890.[1] Isaac Maxfield married as his first wife at New Bedford on 1 October 1822 CLEMENA JENNEY.[2] She was born at Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York, between 1800 and 1810[3] and died probably some time after the birth of their child in 1832 and before her husband remarried in 1849. Isaac married as his second wife ASENATH P. (MAYHEW) CLIFFORD,[4] who was born at Chilmark, Dukes County, on 3 June 1815, child of David and Martha Mayhew, and died at Tisbury on 6 January 1864.[5] Asenath had married as her first husband THOMAS CLIFFORD[6] who drowned at sea on passage to New York in 1840.[7] Isaac married as his third wife at Tisbury on 11 December 1865 SARAH D. (LUCE) FERGUSON,[8] who was born at Tisbury on 18 November 1803, a child of Stephen and Rebecca Luce, and died at Tisbury on 22 July 1878.[9] Sarah had previously married at Tisbury on 16 May 1824 JOHN FERGUSON,[10] who died at Chilmark on 30 January 1861.[11]
Isaac and Clemena were both of New Bedford when they married in 1822; Isaac was reported at Dartmouth, Bristol County, in the 1830 Census. However their daughter was born where her mother had been born, at Union Springs in 1832. Isaac Maxfield married at Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1849, and remained there for the remainder of his life. Every record refers to Isaac as a mason, or brick and stone mason.
Isaac was reported in the 1830 Census at Dartmouth, Bristol County: one male and one female ages 20-29.[12]
Isaac married widow Asenath Clifford in 1849. He was 45; she 33. They were reported in the 1850 Census at Tisbury as follows:[13]
| Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | R.E. | Birthplace | Other |
| Isaac Maxfield | 47 | M | mason | $ 500 | New Bedford | |
| Asenath P. Maxfield | 34 | F | Chilmark | |||
| Ann Thomas Clifford | 10 | F | Tisbury | school |
The 1855 Massachusetts census reported Isaac Maxfield, 52, mason, Asenath P. Maxfield, 40, and Ann T. Clifford, 15, together at Tisbury.[14]
The 1860 Census also reported them at Tisbury:[15]
| Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | R.E. | P.E. | Birthplace | |
| Isaac Maxfield | 57 | M | mason | $ 800 | Mass. | ||
| Asenath Maxfield | 45 | F | Mass |
Asenath Maxfield died at Tisbury in 1864, age 48. Almost two years later Isaac married widow Sarah Ferguson. They were both 62 years old. She had been widowed four years.
In 1865, Isaac Maxfield, 62, mason was living at Tisbury. His household included his son-in-law, John G. Chase, 42, carpenter, his daughter, Ann M. Chase, housewife, and his granddaughter, Alice G. Chase, 8.[16]
Isaac and Sarah Maxfield appeared in the 1870 Census in Tisbury, Holmes Hole Post Office (now Vineyard Haven), as follows:[17]
| Name | Age | Sex | Race | Occupation | R.E. | P.E. | Birth | Other |
| Maxfield, Isaac | 67 | M | W | brick mason | $1000 | MA | ||
| Maxfield, Sarah D. | 67 | F | W | keeping house | MA |
Sarah Maxfield died at Tisbury twelve years after their marriage, from heart failure.[18] Isaac Maxfield appeared in the 1880 Census with his daughter and son-in-law in Cottage City (now Oak Bluffs), Dukes County, also on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts:[19]
| Name | Related | MS | Sex | Race | Age | B | Occupation | FB | MB |
| John G. Chase | self | M | M | W | 50 | MA | carpenter | MA | MA |
| Anna M. Chase | wife | M | F | W | 45 | NY | keeping house | MA | MA |
| Isic Maxfield | father-in-law | W | M | W | 76 | MA | brick and stone mason | MA | MA |
Twelve years after Sarah's death, Isaac died at Tisbury from old age.[20]
Isaac Maxfield and his first wife Clemena had the following child:
1Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 11 September 2017), vol. 409, p. 225, e. 22, Cottage City Deaths, 1890, Isaac Maxfield.
2Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1932. 1932, 1941), v. 2, p. 365.
3Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 59, p. 366, Isaac Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Place of birth from her daughter's death record/
4"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 37, p. 124, e. 12; Tisbury Marriages 1849; Maxfield- Clifford.
5North Tisbury Burial Ground, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 21 September 2015), Asenath P. Maxfield; Created and photo by: Sunset. Death also recorded in: Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1910), p. 71.
6Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts: to the year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Slociety, 1904), p. 45.
7Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, p. 204; Congregational Church record.
8"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 180, p. 151, e. 12; Tisbury Marriages, 1865; Maxfield-Furgerson.
9"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 301, p. 153, e. 10, Tisbury Deaths 1878, Sarah D. Maxfield.
10Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, p. 159.
11"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 147, p. 152; Chilmark Deaths, John Ferguson.
121830 Census, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 59, p. 366, , Isaac Maxfield.
13Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 436B, household 301, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
14Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1855 Massachusetts State Census, population, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, v. 7b, p. 366, household 346, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 14 August 2022); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
15Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 493, p. 722, household 285, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
16Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1865 Massachusetts State Census, population, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, v. 7, p. 335, household 58, Isaac Maxfield household; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 August 2013); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
17Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 606, p. 722B, household 317, Isaac Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
18"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 301, p. 153, e. 10, Tisbury Deaths 1878, Sarah D. Maxfield.
19Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Cottage City, Dukes County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 129, roll 526, p. 539D, household 128, John G. Chase family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 7 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
20"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," , vol. 409, p. 225, e. 22, Cottage City Deaths, 1890, Isaac Maxfield.
21"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 516, p. 390, e. 208; Cottage City Deaths 1901: Annice Chase.
22Jay and Delene Holbrook eds., "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2012), Tisbury: Marriage, Chase-Maxfield; Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts.
23"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 481, p. 371, e. 126; Cottage City Deaths 1898: John Chase.
241865 Massachusetts State Census, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, v. 7, p. 335, household 58, Isaac Maxfield household.
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