Hi Faye, On my extended KIDDER family tree, I can offer another "guess" as to how my great-grandparents met. Actually, 2 generations. I'll start with the Ashbel RICE * family which left MA just after the Rev. War and moved up to "Maine." Maybe around 1790, they moved across the water to Digby, NS. Around 1800 they moved back and Daniel was born in Lubec ~1803/4. Daniel and his wife had 10 children and the youngest was Charles, b1850. Now, how did Charles meet Adelaide HUTCHINSON living in Winchester, MA? I can only guess that Charles, as a 20-yr-old left Lubec and came down to Winchester to work on the large farm. Charles and Adelaide RICE had 2 daughters in 1876 and 1878 and then "separated." Charles remained in MA and it took me many years to find out where he lived. As the daughters grew up, did Charles take his daughters up to visit his relatives in Lubec? Or, did he remain in contact with them on a regular basis? Or, as teens or young adults, did Louise and Edith travel up to Lubec on summer vacations to visit their uncles, aunts, and cousins? Is that how they met G. Sanford KIDDER who was then living in the next town, Eastport? Louise and Edith were born and raised on the HUTCHINSON farm, but Louise chose to get married in Sanford's home-town of Princeton, ME, in 1898. They came down to Winchester as their daughter was born there in 1899. (My grandmother, Clarissa Adelaide KIDDER, was named after both grandmothers. Only Clarissa KIDDER was called "Clara" and my grandmother, as far as I know, only was called Clarissa.) -- By the way, my grandmother's youngest daughter is her only surviving child. Gertrude "Trudy" lost contact with her father's siblings many years ago. One of her "2nd cousins" found some of my queries from several years ago and contacted me in the spring. My aunt now has the current addresses of her cousins and is writing to them, and possibly calling them. She lives south of Boston, and the cousins seem to live near me. -- And I was reminded last week that some descendants of my KIDDER family of Princeton, ME, also came down and currently live "near Lowell, MA." I don't know if they have an interest in their family-tree, but, I might write to them. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI: Ashbel RICE was from Marlborough, MA, and he married Percissa / Persis KNIGHT then from nearby Stow, MA. Way back when I found very old messages that said that this KNIGHT family had spent some time in Nova Scotia. But, over the years, I've found no evidence of that. Persis seems to have been one of about 17 children of Ebenezer KNIGHT, who had 3 wives. He had initially lived in Woburn, MA (near Boston), and then moved out to Stow. (Marlborough and Stow are midway between Waltham (near Boston) and Worcester, which is "Central MA." As someone pointed out to me recently, because of the Cape Cod area, Central MA is Worcester. But, thinking about Boston and then Pittsfield, many people think that Central MA is the Quabbin Reservoir and Amherst area. And I think of Springfield as Central MA, but actually that city is near the border with Connecticut. Many Canadians followed the Connecticut River down and settled in those cities bordering it.)