Mansfield Table of Contents

Please contact Bob Anderson for additions or corrections.

Earliest ancestors are Robert Mansfield born about 1594 and died 1666 in Lynn, MA. and Elizabeth (unknown but perhaps Townsend) born about 1586 and died 1673 in Lynn, MA. Most of the descendants included at this site migrated to locations in Maine including Chebeague Island and Jonesport. Within the Mansfield line are many marriages to the Carvers who descended from Robert Carver born about 1594 in England.

This WWWeb site contains two Anderson descendant outlines:

Descendants of Robert¹ Mansfield.pdf (cannot edit) updated 3/22/2009
Sources for Robert¹ Mansfield.pdf journal (endnotes) updated 3/22/2009
Descendants of Robert¹ Mansfield .rtf (editable) updated 3/22/2009

Also included are quotations about the Mansfields from published documents include:

From the Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage, 1860-1862, Volume III, pages 148-149.
Several paragraphs from the book Mansfield Genealogy, complied by Geneva A. Daland (a descendant of Andrew) and James S. Mansfield, M.D., (a descendant of Joseph), published in 1980, and included with the permission of Dr. Mansfield, are as follows:
- Robert¹ Mansfield and Elizabeth (Townsend) both born in England. Updated with Townsend data 3/15/2009
- Andrew² Mansfield and his three wives
- John² Mansfield and Mary Morris
- Joseph² Mansfield and Elizabeth Needham
- Daniel³ Mansfield and (1) Hannah Johnson and (2) Mrs. Margaret (Jarvis) Burrill
- James⁶ Mansfield and Lois Darling
Excerpt from The Burrill/Burrill Genealogy by Ruth Burell-Brown, Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1990, Ebenezer Burrill, Jr. (Hon. Ebenezer³, Lt. John², George¹)
- Ebenezer and Mary (Mansfield) Burrill, Jr.

All of the Mansfield family narrative links, listed below, were taken from the Henry Mansfield Family by Robert E. Anderson, 1988:

Henry⁶ Mansfield b: Abt 1760 in Salem, MA
Edward⁷ Mansfield b: Abt 1789 in prob Salem, MA
Henry⁷ Mansfield b: Abt 1789
William⁷Mansfield b: Abt l804 in Salem, MA d: 7 Feb l874 in Winterport, ME
Edward⁸ Augustus Mansfield b: 08/06/1817 in Portland, ME
William⁹ Frank Mansfield b: 12/10/1845
Lee¹⁰ E. Mansfield b: 10/1870 in Jonesport, ME
William¹¹ Lewis Mansfield b: 03/24/1899 in Jonesport, ME

The following individuals are also researching the Robert Mansfield lineage: Robert E. Anderson. Please contact Bob Anderson if you wish your name/email address to be added or deleted from this list.

Please contact Bob Anderson for additions or corrections. Bob is a descendant of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Burchstead) Mansfield.

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