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Name: Elisabeth Maxfield Gender: Female Christening Date: Christening Place: Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Birth Date: 10 Nov 1725 BirthPlace: Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: Joseph Maxfield Father's BirthPlace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Johanna Mother's BirthPlace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50041-2 System Origin: Massachusetts-VR GS Film Number: 890246 Reference ID: Book 1, page 89
'Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FC3K-KKQ : 10 February 2018), Joseph Maxfield in entry for Elisabeth Maxfield, 10 Nov 1725; citing Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Book 1, page 89; FHL microfilm 890,246.
The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)
1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England 1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England 1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay 1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state
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