This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kidder, Greenlaw, Wilkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wNC.2ACE/1074 Message Board Post: My main research of 8 years is on KIDDER. In 1785 Calvin Kidder left southern NH and traveled to St. Stephen, NB. In 1798, he married Miss or Mrs. Mary Mercy GREENLAW from St. Andrews, NB. They lived their short married life in his residence in St. Stephen. Their only child was born in January 1799. Not 3 weeks later, Calvin was killed in a boating accident on the Schoodiac River. The son's name was J. Calvin Kidder. We don't know what happened to the widow, Mrs. Mary Kidder. The next we hear from their son, Calvin is turning 18 and signing a document in St. Stephen. At Age 30 he moved over to Calais, ME. In 1834, he married Mary Jane WILKINS from Amity, ME. Calvin and Mary Kidder had 7 children. ..... Their son, Joseph Kidder, married Clarissa WILKINS in 1868. She was the daughter of George F. and Mary Ann WILKINS ... then living in Canterbury, NB. Both Mary Jane and George were born in or near Amity, ME, between 1800 and 1815. I would like to know whether they were siblings or cousins, and who their parents were. We know nothing about the GREENLAW family which Mary Mercy belonged to. ..... Calvin's descendants mostly settled in or near Princeton, ME, as did many Greenlaw families. We do not know .. if they all knew each other ... prior to 1800, but it's entirely possible. I have a lot of information on the Kidder families in northern ME. But, there is a lot of information about the marriages of these Kidder families (1785 to present) which I am missing.