Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation

JEWETT EDWARD⁷ MAXFIELD (Jewett⁶, James⁵, John⁴, Michael⁴, John^2-1) was born at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 21 Februry 1832, a son of Jewett Maxfield and his first wife Electa Smith.^[1] He died at Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire, on 22 August 1910.^[2] He married (intentions published at Gilmanton, Belknap County, on 12 March 1857) LYDIA ANNA PIPER.^[3] She was born at Gilmanton on 18 November 1839, a daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Russell) Piper. She died at Belmont, Belknap County, on 16 November 1922.^[4]

Jewett Edward Maxfield was born at Salem, the second of two children of Jewett and Electa Maxfield. I have no information on his older sister beyond 1836. When young Jewett was fifteen months old his mother died. When he was age 3 his father remarried. When he was age 4 his father died in a tragic workplace accident.

It is not clear in whose household young Jewett was raised following his father's death. The 1850 Census reported him living at Salem with his uncle James Maxfield, aunt Emily, and their two children. That census reported young Jewett, 18, a shoemaker, and his uncle James a tanner.^[5]

Jewett E. Maxfield married Lydia Piper at Upper Gilmanton Parish in 1857; He was twenty-five, she seventeen. That same year, property owned in common by Jewett and Lydia Maxfield on the one hand, and Sarah and Elisha Piper on the other hand, was partitioned so each couple owned property in their own right.^[6] The 1860 Census reported Jewett Maxfield, 28, farmer, Lydia, 20, and Sarah E, Maxfield, 2, at Gilmanton (Upper Gilmanton Post office).^[7]

The 1870 Census reported this family at Belmont. This does not necessarily indicate they moved, as Upper Gilmanton was incorporated as the town of Belmont in 1869. The family consisted of Jewett, 38, carpenter, Lydia, 31, keeping house, Sarah, 12, and Clara, 9.^[8]

Sarah married John Small in 1878; the 1880 Census reportd them at Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; John, 26, was farming, Sarah, 22, was keeping house.^[9] Meanwhile, after an interval of eleven years with no new children, the family of Lydia and Jewett was growing again. The 1880 Census reported at Belmont Jewett Maxfield, 48, farmer, Lydia, 40, Clara, 19 school teacher, Julia, 8, Ida, 4, and Nellie, 1.^[10]

According to the Independent Statesman, Jewett and Lydia had a son born 4 December 1881.^[11] According to daughter Maude's death record, she was born on 5 December 1881. There is no further record of a male child with that birth date. Perhaps the newspaper got the gender of the child wrong. Either the newspaper or the death record could have been off one day on the birth of the child.

Daughter Julia died in 1886, at the age of fourteen from bronchitis.^[12] Clara married about 1889-90, Ida married in 1894, Maude, born in 1881, married in 1899. The 1900 Census reported Jewett and Lydia Maxfield living in the town and village of Belmont. Jewett was a wheelwright. Lydia had given birth to six children, five of whom were living.^[13] Daughter Nellie Maxfield was boarding with Thomas Piper at Franklin, Merrimack County, where she worked knitting hosiery.^[14] Clara (Maxfield) Smith lived at Lynn, Essex County, with her son Raymond Smith, 8. She was listed as head of a household with twenty-two boarders. The census listed her as married, but husband George Smith was absent.^[15]

The 1910 Census reported Lydia Maxfield, 70, farmer, at Belmont. With her were her daughter Nellie, 31, single, hosiery seamer, also daughter Maud Brette, 28, divorced, hosiery seamer, and granddaughter Edith Brette, 9.^[16] Meanwhile, Jewett Maxfield, 78, no occupation, was living at Gilford, with his daughter, Sarah Small, 52, english teacher in common school, and son-in-law John Small, 57, truckman with odd jobs.^[17] Clara had married about 1909-10 Benjamin Knight, who had been listed in 1900 as a lodger in Clara's lodging house, then a traveling agent. In 1910 Benjamin, 55, and Clara, 49 lived at Lynn. This was the second marriage for both. Benjamin was proprietor of a lunch room. Clara was proprietress of a lodging house. The household included her child Raymond, 18, and twenty-three lodgers.^[18] Jewett died in 1910 from senility, at the home of his daughter Sarah Small.^[19]

Daughter Maude married as her second husband George Wellman, and they had children born in 1912, 1914, and 1916. The 1920 Census reported Lidia Maxfield, 80, farmer, at Belmont, with George and Marie [Maude] Wellman and their two daughters. George was also farming.^[20] Daughter Clara was living at Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with her son Raymond Smith, 28, shipyard engineer and his wife Eva, 25.^[21] Daughter Nellie, 41, single, lived at Tilton, Belknap County, where she was inspector in an optical factory.^[22]

Lydia (Piper) Maxfield died in 1922, at the age of 82, from an aortic embolism.^[23] Sarah's husband, John Small, died in 1920; in 1930 she married Clyde White. She was 72, he 69. They were reported in the 1930 Census at Gilford; he was sand cutter at a foundry.^[24] Clara had moved with her son Raymond Smith, his wife Eva, and their child Barbara, to Pleasantville, Mount Pleasant town, Westchester County, New York, where Raymond was sales manager for a clock company.^[25] Ida (Maxfield) Clough lived at Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, with her husband Edward Clough, farmer, and their grandson Melvin Clough.^[26]

Sarah (Maxfield) (Small) White died in 1937 from Bright's disease.^[27] Nellie married in 1940 at the age of 61, and died in 1950. Maude (Maxfield) (Brett) Wellman died in 1951 from carcinoma of the liver.^[28] Clara (Maxfield) (Smith) Knight died in 1958 at the age of 97. Ida (Maxfield) Clough died in 1965

Jewett and Lydia (Piper) Maxfield had the following children:

1. SAREH E.⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Upper Gilmanton Parish, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 3 December 1857; d. at Gilmanton on 17 Janhuary 1937;^[29] m(1). at Belmont on 1 May 1878 JOHN A. SMALL,^[30] b. at Canterbury New Hampshire, on 28 October 1853,^[31] d. at Gilford on 17 September 1920, child of Darius Small and susan Heath.^[32] Sarah m(2). at Maine on 18 January 1930 CLYDE WHITE,^[33] b. at New Hampshire about 1861-2.^[34]
2. CLARA AUGUSTA⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 29 October 1860; d. at Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, on 11 February 1860;^[35] m(1). about 1889-90 GEORGE SMITH.^[36] Clara m(2). about 1909-10 BENJAMIN H. KNIGHT, b. at Rhode Island on November 1851.^[37] Child of Clara and George:
   1. Raymond Smith b. at Vermont on September 1891,^[38] m. about 1916-7 Eva ______ b. at Canada about 1894. Child of Raymond and Eva:
      1. Barbara Smith b. at Massachusetts about 1919-20.^[39]
3. JULIA MAY⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Belmont on 9 May 1872;^[40] d. there on 19 June 1886.^[41]
4. IDA BELLE⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Belmont on 14 September 1875;^[42] d. at Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, on 27 March 1965;^[43] m. at Belmont on 14 April 1894 EDWARD W. CLOUGH,^[44] b. at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 1866, d. on 1951, child of Charles W. Clough and Sarah Thorpe.^[45]
5. NELLIE J.⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Belmont on March 1897;^[46] d. at Boscawen, Merrimack County, on 20 September 1950;^[47] m. at Freedom, Carroll County, New Hampshire on 28 July 1940PHILIP G. GILBERT.^[48]
6. MAUDE ETHEL⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Belmont on 5 December 1881; d. at Marshallton Heights, New Castle County, Delaware, on 7 December 1951;^[49] m(1). at Laconia, Belknap County, on 21 October 1899 FRANK LOREN BRETT, b. at Otisfield, Oxford County, Maine, about 1869-70,^[50] child of Cyrus F. Brett and Cynthia Parish. Maude m(2). GEORGE WELLMAN, b. at Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 1873, d. at Belmont on 13 February 1941, child of George H. Wellman and Elvira W. Lovejoy.^[51] Frank m(2). about 1908-9 ELDORA ______, b. at Maine about 1874-5.^[52] Child of Maude and Frank:
   1. Edith Brett b. at Massachusetts about 1900-1.^[53]
   Children of Maude and George:
   2. (unnamed)Wellman b. at Belmont on 6 November 1912.^[54]
   3. Roselin M. Wellman at New Hampshire about 1914.
   4. Alice S. Wellman b. at new Hampshire about May 1916.^[55]

¹New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15153, Death, Jewett Maxfield, 1910; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 25 January 2017).
²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15153, Death, Jewett Maxfield, 1910.
³New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9891, Marriage (intentions), Maxfield-Piper, 1857.
⁴New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15179, Death, Lydia Anna Maxfield, 1922.
⁵Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, roll 312, p. 148B, household 605, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶Belknap County, New Hampshire (NEHGS), Wills: 8:247 ; New England Historic Genealogical Society (microfilm), Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 666, p. 134, household 204, Jewett E. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁸Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 836, p. 53B, household 161, Jewett Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁹Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 164, p. 77A, household 209, John A. Small family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰1880 Census, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 3, roll 760, p. 43A, household 288, Jewett E. Maxfield family.
¹¹"Births," Independent Statesman, 15 December 1881, p. 88; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through american ancestors.org.
¹²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6164, Death, Julia M. Maxfield, 1886.
¹³Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 3, roll 944, p. 4A, household 51, Jewett E. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹⁴1900 Census, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, ED 164, roll 949, p. 20A, household 366, Thomas Piper family.
¹⁵1900 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 378, roll 644, p. 5, household 97, Clara Smith lodging house.
¹⁶Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 3, roll 860, p. 3A, household 62, Lydia Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁷1910 Census, Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 5, roll 860, p. 8B, household 195, John A. Small family.
¹⁸1910 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 402, p. 2A, household 29, Benjamin H. Knight family.
¹⁹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15153, Death, Jewett Maxfield, 1910.
²⁰Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 3, p. 10B, household 191, Lidia Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 August 2013); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²¹1920 Census, Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 206, p. 15B, household 363, Raymond D. Smith family.
²²1920 Census, Tilton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 15, p. 5B, household 111, Nellie Maxfield.
²³New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15179, Death, Lydia Anna Maxfield, 1922.
²⁴Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 5, p. 8A, household 194, Clyde H. White family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 August 2011); NARA record Group T626.
²⁵1930 Census, Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York, ED 188, p. 1B, household 28, Raymond B. Smith family.
²⁶1930 Census, Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, ED 34, p. 2B, household 52, Edward W. Clough family.
²⁷New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Death: Sarah White, 1937.
²⁸Delaware, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Hall of Records, Dover, Delaware, Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961, no 3148, Maude Ethel Wellman, 1951; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 29 August 2011).
²⁹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Death: Sarah White, 1937.
³⁰New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Marriage: Small-Maxfield, 1878.
³¹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, John A. Small, 1853.
³²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Death: John Small, 1920.
³³Maine Department of the Secretary of State, Maine State Archives, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1996," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2007), Whitw-Maxfield, 1930.
³⁴1930 Census, Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 5, p. 8A, household 194, Clyde H. White family.
³⁵South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 September 2014), Clara A. Knight; Created and photo by: Ellen Savage.
³⁶1900 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 378, roll 644, p. 5, household 97, Clara Smith lodging house.
³⁷1910 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 402, p. 2A, household 29, Benjamin H. Knight family.
³⁸1900 Census, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, ED 378, roll 644, p. 5, household 97, Clara Smith lodging house.
³⁹1920 Census, Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 206, p. 15B, household 363, Raymond D. Smith family.
⁴⁰New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, Julia M. Maxfield, 1872.
⁴¹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6164, Death, Julia M. Maxfield, 1886.
⁴²New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, Ida Bell Maxfield, 1875.
⁴³Maine, State of, Department of Human Services, Augusta, Maine, "Maine Death Index, 1960-1997," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 November 2011), Ida B. Clough, 1965, 6502250.
⁴⁴New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Marriage: Clough-Maxfield, 1894.
⁴⁵South Road Cemetery, Belmont, Edward-Ida Clough; Created by: rick pickwick, Photo added by Ellen Savage.
⁴⁶New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, Nellie J. Maxfield, 1879.
⁴⁷New Hampshire Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959, certificate 50-4348, Nellie Maxfield Gilbert, 1950; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 21 February 2017).
⁴⁸French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952.
⁴⁹Delaware Death Records, 1855-1961, no 3148, Maude Ethel Wellman, 1951.
⁵⁰New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Marriage: Brett-Maxfield, 1899.
⁵¹French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
⁵²1910 Census, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, ED 199, roll 543, p. 7A-7B, household 167, Hannah Billings family.
⁵³1910 Census, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 3, roll 860, p. 3A, household 62, Lydia Maxfield family.
⁵⁴New Hampshire., Birth Certificates, 1631-1920, ________, 1912.
⁵⁵1920 Census, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, ED 3, p. 10B, household 191, Lidia Maxfield family.

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________. Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2011.