This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wNC.2ACE/1144.1 Message Board Post: I have a record of a REUBEN KIDDER, of New Ipswich, N.H. who was the "richest man in town and at the Revolutionary era had done more than any other man to promote its growth and prosperity...He refused to acknowledge the Whig Government of the State, but remained upon his estate without molestation. Though opposed to the Revolution, he still paid taxes levied upon his property, and thus lost nothing but his influence and popularity. He died at New Ipswich, in 1793, aged seventy." I don't know without further research whether Calvin was a son or grandson...but it would appear highly probable, at minimum, that he was related in some manner. Reuben was obviously a "loyalist" to the extent that he did not approve of the "new government." Calvin may have shared similar feelings and stayed in N.H. as a teenager until he approached marrying age and saw economic opportunity in the new Province of New Brunswick. Beau Chapman Genealogist