Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

BENJAMIN⁶ MAXFIELD (possibly Warren⁵, Timothy^4-3-2 John¹) was born in Massachusetts on 29 July 1812 and died at California on 7 April 1866.^[1] He was probably child of Warren Maxfield and his wife Ruby Peckham. He married (intentions published at New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 22 September 1834)^[2] MARY LaMUNYON KING. A daughter of Stephen and Phebe L. King, she was born at Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, on 3 November 1809 and died at Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, on 12 January 1904.^[3]

I have not found a record that clearly states that Benjamin was a child of Warren and Ruby. However I believe he was probably their child for the following reasons:

1. Benjamin F. Maxfield (1835-1915), who, according to his marriage and death records was a child of Benjamin and Mary Maxfield born at New Bedford, was resident with Ephraim Maxfield, a son of Warren and Ruby, in the 1850, 1855, 1860 and 1870 censuses.
2. Mary M. Maxfield (about 1836-1858), a daughter of Benjamin and Mary according to her marriage and death records, was in the 1855 census living with Mary "Polly" Maxfield, the sister of Warren Maxfield.
3. The 1820 and 1830 census records indicate a male child in the age group of Benjamin, and none other has been identified.

The 1840 census reported this family in New Bedford.^[4] That census only reported family members in age and sex groups. A possible explanation of this census record follows::

Benjamin Maxfield was called a "mason" in records from 1843 through 1847. He was involved in property transfers in New Bedford:

• Benjamin T. Hayes and wife Emily sell to Benjamin Maxfield for $192 a lot of land with the buildings thereon in New Bedford bounded on the north by contemplated Mill Street. Land sold by Hayes to Maxfield 10 Dec 1844; land sold back same day, as mortgage, for $140. Mortgage paid according to note on margin of book.^[5]
• Benjamin Maxfield of New Bedford, mason, "sold" to James Arnold of New Bedford lot on contemplated Mill Street, for $600; land to be returned to Maxfield provided he pay back $300 in 3 years, remaining $300 in 6 years, plus interest. Signed Benjamin Maxfield and Mary Maxfield.^[6]
• New Bedford, May 15, 1854. We certify that on this day James Arnold, the within named mortgagee, made an open and peaceable entry upon the within mortgaged premises in our presence, declaring the same to be for the purpose of foreclosure for condition of said mortgage broken.^[7]

Benjamin Maxfield joined the "New Bedford and Sacramento Mutual Mining Company," and set sail from New Bedford to California on the America on 1 April 1849.^[8] He joined the gold rush, and evidently never returned, abandoning his family and not keeping up payments on their home.

The 1850 census nevertheless reported Benjamin Maxfield with his family in New Bedford, perhaps thinking that his absence was temporary:^[9]

The two oldest sons were no longer at home. George, 15, lived at New Bedford in the household of William G. Parker 35 trader and Mary Ann 31.^[10] Son Benjamin, 15, was with his Uncle Ephraim at Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts.^[11]

The 1849 New Bedford City Directory reported "Maxfield, Benjamin, mason, h[ome]. 160 Mill."^[12] The 1852^[13] and 1856 city directories also reported him at 160 Mill Street, but followed by the word "California."^[14]

The 1855 Massachusetts State census also reported Benjamin Maxfield at New Bedford. The family consisted of Benjamin Maxfield, 42, mason, Mary L. Maxfield, 44, George B Maxfield, 20, rigger, Mary M Maxfield, 18, Phebe A Maxfield, 11, Charles H Maxfield, 10, and Sarah E Maxfield, 8.^[15] Son Benjamin was with his uncle Ephraim at Chilmark.^[16] Emily lived at New Bedford with Simeon and Louisa West.^[17]

Daughter Mary had married in 1857 and died in 1858. By 1860 George had joined his father Benjamin in California, while Mary remained at New Bedford. That year the census reported:

• Benjamin Maxfield, age 40, born in Massachusetts, living at Foster Barr Township, Yuba County, California, engaged in mining.^[18]
• George Maxfield, 25, miner was also at Foster Barr township, but in a different redidence.^[19]
• George R. Maxfield also reported at New Bedford, in the same building as his mother, but a separate household: George Maxfield, 24, rigger, with George P. Gardner, 32, rigger, and Harriet Gardner, 26.^[20]
• Mary L. Maxfield, age 50, living at New Bedford, with children Phebe A., 17, Charles H., 15, and Sarah E., 13.^[21]
• Benjamin Maxfield, 25, mason, with his uncle Ephraim Maxfield, 61, mason at Chilmark.^[22]
• Emily B. Maxfield, 18, in household of Simeon and Louisa West, New Bedford. ^[23]

The 1865 state census reported Mary L. Maxfield, 54, "widow," with Phebe A. Maxfield, 21, clockmaker, and Charles A. Maxfield, 19, printer, at New Bedford. They were in the household of Hannah Manchester, 57, widow, Mary J. Brown, 83, widow, Fally Macomber, 66, widow, and John King, 60, single, seaman. All were born at Rhode Island except the Maxfield children.^[24] Perhaps they were related in some way? Benjamin continued to live with Uncle Ephraim and Emily continued with the Wests.^[25]

The New Bedford Mercury reported the death of Benjamin Maxfield, formerly of New Bedford, in California, on 7 April 1866, age 53 years, 8 months and 9 days.^[26]

Emily married in 1866 and Sarah in 1868. The 1870 Census reported Mary L. Maxfield in the household of her daughter and son-in-law at New Bedford:^[27]

Benjamin was still with Uncle Ephraim in Chilmark.^[28] Although George does not appear in the 1870 Census, a George Randall Maxfield, 33, seaman, registered to vote at San Francisco, California, on 6 September 1870.^[29] Charles H. Maxfield, who had married in 1867, was reported head of a household at New Bedford. He was 25, and clerk in a store, his wife, Celia, was keeping house. Harriet Hathaway, 14, also lived in their home.^[30]

The 1880 census reported the following:

• Mary L. Maxfield (age 70) living in New Bedford in the household of her son-in-law, Charles H. Gifford (35), and his wife Sarah (33). Charles Gifford had a clothing store.^[31]
• Benjamin continued at Chilmark with his uncle.
• George R. Maxfield,43, a disabled sailor, lived at San Francisco with his wife Minerva, 33, and their daughter Georgie, 2.^[32]
• Emily (Maxfield) Keen, 37, and her husband, Eben S. Keen, 37, printer, lived at New Bedford in the household of Simeon West, 63, ship agent.^[33]
• Charles Maxfield, 36, divorced, clothing clerk, boarded at Bancroft House in New Bedford.^[34]

The 1900 Census reported the following:

• Mary L. Maxfield, born November 1809, living at 276 Knight Street, Providence, with her son-in-law and daughter, Frank W. Griswald, born December 1839, watchmaker, and Phebe A. Griswald, born September 1843. The Griswalds had been married 25 years and had no children.^[35]
• Benjamin Maxfield, 65, widowed, mason, boarded at West Tisbury, Dukes County.^[36]
• Charles H. Maxfield, 54, a salesman of dry goods, boarded in a home in Providence.^[37]
• Sarah, whose husband had died in 1882, and who remarried about 1893-4, lived in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with her second husband, A. H. Browning, 50, a clothing salesman. Sarah was 52, her son Nathaniel Gifford, 21.^[38]

Mary L. Maxfield died at Providence on 12 January 1904, from acute bronchitis, acute articular rheumatism, and endocarditis.^[39]

Benjamin Maxfield, the son, lived with his uncle Ephraim Maxfield at Chilmark until Ephraim's death, and pursued Ephraim's trade as a mason. At the age of thirty-nine he married twenty-two year old Fannie B. Norton, daughter of William and Martha Norton. Married in 1874, she died in 1885 from a tumor.^[40] Benjamin was reported boarding at West Tisbury in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. He was a mason in 1900, had his own income in 1910.^[41] He died in 1915 from chronic Bright's disease of the kidney.^[42]

Charles Henry Maxfield fought in the Civil War, serving in the 3rd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (infantry), Company G, from 26 September 1862 to 26 June 1863.^[43] He married at New Bedford when he was 22 and she 28, Celia Ann (Drew) Hathaway. Married in 1867, Charles was reported divorced in the 1880 Census when he was boarding at 124 Union Street, New Bedford. He was recorded as a clerk in a store in 1870, a clothing clerk in 1880. He married Sophronie Bassett in 1884; she died from typhoid fever ten years later.^[44] In 1900, a salesman of dry goods, he was boarding at Providence in the home of Isabel Loftus. In 1906 he married Lillian Loftus, who was living with her mother Isabel, in the home where Charles was boarding, in 1900. At the time of marriage he was 61, she 39. In 1910 and 1920 Charles and Lillian were living at East Providence, Providence County.^[45] Charles died in 1922 from a cerebral hemorrhage and uraemia.^[46] Lillian died two years later with carcinoma of the right breast.^[47]

Benjamin Maxfield and his wife Mary King had the following children:

1. GEORGE R.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford about 1834-5
2. BENJAMIN F.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 29 January 1835, d. at West Tisbury on 29 May 1915;^[48] m. at Chilmark on 19 February 1874 FANNIE B. NORTON^[49] b. at Chilmark on 21 June 1851, d. there on 31 March 1885.^[50]
3. MARY M.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford about 1836-7,^[51] d. there on 22 February 1858;^[52] m. there on 10 May 1857 DAVID C. WOOD, Jr. b. at Fairhaven, Bristol County, about 1832-3.^[53]
4. FREEMAN R.⁷ MAXFIELD b. about November-December 1840, d. on 29 September 1841.^[54]
5. EMILY B.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford about 1841-2; m(1). there on 10 October 1866 EBENEZER S. KEEN^[55] b. at New Bedford on 1841,^[56] d. there on 8 February 1883.^[57] Emily m(2)________ ARNOLD.^[58]
6. PHEBE ANN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 23 September 1843,^[59] d. at Providence on 2 April 1928;^[60] m. there on 9 February 1875 FRANK WHITE GRISWALD^[61] b. at Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on December 1839,^[62] d. at Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, on 7 September 1907.^[63]
7. CHARLES HENRY⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 17 July 1845,^[64] d. at Riverside, Providence County, on 16 June 1922;^[65] m(1). at New Bedford on 31 December 1867 CELIA ANN (DREW) HATHAWAY,^[66] divorced before 1880 (census), she b. at New Bedford 11 May 1839, d. there on 26 September 1917; Celia had m (1). on 5 April 1855 GEORGE WINSLOW HATHAWAY, divorced before 1867; George b. 1834, d. at New Bedford on 14 November 1905. George m (2). on 25 December 1868 MARIA G. SIMMONS;^[67] Charles m (2). at Providence on 2 May 1884 SOPHIE COTTON BASSETT^[68] b. at New Bedford about 1849-50,^[69] d. at Providence on 11 November 1894;^[70] Charles m (3). at Providence on 27 August 1906 LILLIAN ETTA LOFTUS^[71] b. at Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, on May 1867, d. at Providence on 29 February 1924.^[72]
8. SARAH ELIZABETH⁷ MAXFIELD b. at New Bedford on 13 April 1847,^[73] d. at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 19 March 1908;^[74] m (1). at New Bedford on 24 March 1868 CHARLES H. GIFFORD^[75] b. at Westport, Bristol County, on 12 January 1843, d. at New Bedford on 19 March 1882;^[76] Sarah m(2). about 1893-4 ALBERT H. BROWNING b. at Massachusetts on 1850.^[77] Children of Sarah and Charles:
   1. Walter M. Gifford b. at Massachusetts about 1868-9;^[78] d. before 1900 (census).
   2. Nathaniel H. Gifford b. at Massachusetts on July 1878.^[79]

¹"Death Records in the New Bedford Mercury, 1845-1874," 936, New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
²Vital Records of New Bedford, Massachusetts: to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1932. 1932, 1941), v. 2, p. 365.
³Rhode Island "Town Clerk Vital and Town Records," digital image of registers, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 28 February 2023), Providence, Return of a Death, 1904, Mary LaMunyon Maxfield.
⁴Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 178, p. 404, Benjamin Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁵Bristol County, Massachusetts, Deeds, vol. 10, p. 568 and vol. 11, p. 279, Benjamin T. Hayes to Benjamin Maxfield, land sale and mortgage, 10 December 1844; Bristol County Court House, Taunton, Massachusetts (familysearch.org).
⁶Ibid., vol. 12, p. 449, Benjamin Maxfield mortgaged to James Arnold, 3 January 1846
⁷Ibid., vol. 26, p. 133, Foreclosure by James Arnold on Benjamin Maxfield, 15 May 1854
⁸"Movements for California," New York Herald, 7 April 1849; Infotrac (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/ : accessed 21 December 2013), 19th Century U. S. Newspapers.
⁹Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 358A, household 2368, Benjamin Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰1850 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 372A, household 2596, Wm. G. Parker family.
¹¹1850 Census, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 413A, household 81, James Lambert family.
¹²New Bedford Directory: containing the City Register, a General Directory of the Citizens, and Special Directory of Trades, Professions, &c. (New Bedford, Massachusetts: C. & A. Taber, 1849), p. 118, Benjamin Maxfield; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 November 2016).
¹³New Bedford Directory: containing the City Register, a General Directory of the Citizens, and a special directory of Trades, Professions, &c. (New Bedford, Massachusetts: Charles Taber & Co., 1852), p. 128, Benjamin Maxfield; digital image, "U. S. City Directories, 1822-1995," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 November 2016).
¹⁴New Bedford Directory: containing the City Register and a General Directory of the Citizens (New Bedford, Massachusetts: Charles Taber & Co., 1856), p. 126, Benjamin Maxfield; digital image, "U. S. City Directories, 1822-1995," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 November 2016).
¹⁵Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1855 Massachusetts State Census, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 128, household 567, Benjamin Maxfield family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 5 April 2018); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁶1855 Massachusetts State Census, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, v. 7b, p. 323, household 5, James O. Lumbert family.
¹⁷1855 Massachusetts State Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 150, household 199, Simeon N. West family.
¹⁸Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Fosters Bar, Yuba County, California, p. 833, household 1926, Joseph Dixon household; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁹1860 Census, Fosters Bar, Yuba County, California, p. 831, household 1911, George P. Maxfield.
²⁰1860 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 490, p. 542, household 766, George P. Gardener family.
²¹1860 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 490, p. 542, household 765, Mary Maxfield family.
²²1860 census, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 493, p. 699, household 54, James O. Lambert family.
²³1860 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 490, p. 476, household 200, Simeon West family.
²⁴Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1865 Massachusetts State Census, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, vol. 6, p. 146, household 550, Mary Maxfield family; digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 16 August 2013); Massachusetts State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts.
²⁵1865 Massachusetts State Census, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, vol. 7a, p. 288, household 17, Ephraim Maxfield. 1865 Massachusetts State Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, v. 6, p. 94, household 425, Simeon N. West family.
²⁶"Death Records in the New Bedford Mercury, 1845-1874,"p. 936.
²⁷Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 605, p. 69A, household 219, Charles Gifford family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
²⁸1870 Census, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, roll 606, p. 680A, household 57, James Lambert family.
²⁹"California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 August 2011), San Francisco, 1870; California State Library, Sacramento, California.
³⁰1870 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 605, p. 88B, household 607, Chas. H. Maxfield family.
³¹Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 109, roll 525, p. 95A, household 13, Chas. H. Gifford family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
³²1880 Census, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, ED 95, p. 389C, household 54, George R. Maxfield family.
³³1880 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, ED 109, p. 95A, Household 5, Eben S. Keene family.
³⁴1880 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, ED 112, roll 525, p. 167A, household 185, Bancroft House.
³⁵Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, enumeration district (ED) 85, p. 12B, household 309, Frank W. Griswold family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
³⁶1900 Census, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, ED 245, roll 639, p. 1, household 16, John W. Allen family.
³⁷1900 Census, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, ED 40, p. 9B, household 188, Isabelle Loftus family.
³⁸1900 Census, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED 864, roll 663, p. 13B, dwelling 232, household 257, A. H. Browning family.
³⁹Rhode Island, "Town Clerk Vital and Town Records," Providence, Return of a Death, 1904, Mary LaMunyon Maxfield.
⁴⁰Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 11 September 2017), vol. 364, p. 171, e. 4, Chilmark Deaths, 1885, Fanny B. Maxfield.
⁴¹1900 Census, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, ED 245, roll 639, p. 1, household 16, John W. Allen family; Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 256, p. 3B, household 89, Calvin R. Tilton family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 October 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁴²Massachusetts, Commonwealth of, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915," American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 19 January 2023), 1915 Deaths v. 86, p. 282; Benjamin F. Maxfield; also v. 16, p. 153
⁴³Historical Data Systems, comp., "U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2013), Charles H. Maxfield; Massachusetts Adjutant General, ed., Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War, 8 volumes (Boston, MA: The Adjutant General, 1931), v. 1, p. 191.
⁴⁴Rhode Island, "Town Clerk Vital and Town Records," Providence Deaths, 1894, p. 120; Sophie Cotton Maxfield.
⁴⁵1910 Census, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, ED 102, p. 1B, household 24, Charles H. Maxfield family; Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, enumeration district (ED) 114, p. 1A, household 2, Charles H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 December 2013); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁴⁶Rhode Island State Archives, Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953, Rhode Island, Return of a Death: Charles Henry Maxfield, 1922; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2 March 2023).
⁴⁷Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953, Rhode Island, Return of a Death: Lillian Etta Maxfield, 1924.
⁴⁸"Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915," 1915 Deaths v. 86, p. 282; Benjamin F. Maxfield.
⁴⁹Jay and Delene Holbrook eds., "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2012), Chilmark; Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts; Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1845-1882; Marriage: Maxfield-Norton, 1874.
⁵⁰"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 364, p. 171, e. 4, Chilmark Deaths, 1885, Fanny B. Maxfield.
⁵¹1850 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 309, p. 358A, household 2368, Benjamin Maxfield family.
⁵²"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 120, p. 80, e. 52, New Bedford Deaths 1858, Mary M. Wood.
⁵³"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 108, p. 129, e. 88; New Bedford Marriages, 1857; Wood-Maxfield.
⁵⁴Joseph King Cemetery, Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 4 March 2023), Freeman R. Maxfield; Originally Created by: James Butzke; Maintained by: Looking For Loved Ones.
⁵⁵"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 189, p. 123, e. 180, New Bedford Marriages, 1866; Keene-Maxfield.
⁵⁶Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 25 July 2018), Eben S. Keen; Created by: Anonymous.
⁵⁷Ibid.
⁵⁸Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Emily Maxfield Arnold; Created by: James Bianco.
⁵⁹"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 4, p. 83, l. 315; New Bedford Births 1843-4; Phebe Ann Maxfield.
⁶⁰"Rhode Island Town Deaths and Burials Index, 1639-1932," Phebe Ann Griswold.
⁶¹Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 3 March 2023), Griswold-Maxfield, 1875.
⁶²1900 Census, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, ED 85, p. 12B, household 309, Frank W. Griswold family.
⁶³"Rhode Island Town Deaths and Burials Index, 1639-1932," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 January 2024), Frank White Griswold.
⁶⁴"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 15, p. 87 e. [2], New Bedford Births, 1845, Charles Henry Maxfield.
⁶⁵Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953, Rhode Island, Return of a Death: Charles Henry Maxfield, 1922.
⁶⁶"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 199, p. 126, e. 252, New Bedford Marriages, 1867; Maxfield-Hathaway.
⁶⁷Elizabeth Starr Versailles, Hathaways of America (Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette, 1970), p. 484.
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⁶⁹Rhode Island, "Town Clerk Vital and Town Records," Family Search, Providence,Intentions of Marriage, 1884, Maxfield-Bassett.
⁷⁰Rhode Island, "Town Clerk Vital and Town Records," Providence Deaths, 1894, p. 120; Sophie Cotton Maxfield.
⁷¹"Rhode Island, Marriages, 1851-1920," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 19 June 2014), Maxfield-Loftus, 1906.
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⁷³"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 22, p. 85, New Bedford Births, 1845, Sarah Elizabeth Maxfield.
⁷⁴Holbrook, "Massachusetts Vital and Town Records,"Boston: Death, Sarah Elizabeth Browning.
⁷⁵"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 208, p. 111, e. 49, New Bedford Marriages, 1868; Gifford-Maxfield.
⁷⁶"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 337, p. 126, e. 139, New Bedford Deaths 1882, Charles H. Gifford.
⁷⁷1900 Census, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED 864, roll 663, p. 13B, dwelling 232, household 257, A. H. Browning family.
⁷⁸1870 Census, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, roll 605, p. 69A, household 219, Charles Gifford family.
⁷⁹1900 Census, Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED 864, roll 663, p. 13B, dwelling 232, household 257, A. H. Browning family.

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