Hello, I have belonged to the New England Lists for about a year, and have just decided to join this one. My main research of 8 years is KIDDER. The patriarch of most of the Kidders in the USA and into Canada .. was James Kidder (1626-1676) of Cambridge and Billerica, MA. He and his wife had 12 children, and several of their children had 12 children each, and so the story continued. During the mid-1700's they started migrating to the other parts of New England and into NY. My line of Kidder men went from MA to NH to NB to ME to MA. And, the line went: James, John, Thomas, Joseph, Calvin, J. Calvin, Joseph, G. Sanford, Clinton, Clinton. John Kidder was one of the sons who had 12 children, but not all of them lived into adulthood. He had several sons who had large properties in the next town of Chelmsford, MA. Part of Chelmsford annexed off to become Westford, MA. Three sons of Thomas Kidder in Westford left that area to help settle the town of New Ipswich, NH, right around 1750. Aaron and Reuben Kidder stayed in that town, and Joseph moved his family to the next town, Temple, NH. Between the three brothers, they had over 40 children. Joseph and Rebecca (Wilder) (Chamberlain) Kidder of New Ipswich and Temple, NH, had 9 children. Their first child was Wilder KIDDER. According to the "History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire," "Wilder, b. March 15, 1753; was living in New York State in 1840." I was wondering if anyone had ever come across information on Mr. and Mrs. Wilder KIDDER in the 1800's. According to the "Kidder family history book" (NEHGS, 1941), i. WILDER, b. 15 Mar. 1753. Wilder Kidder was a fifer in the Revolutionary War, serving in Captain Town's Company of Benedict Arnold's Regiment, recruited in New Ipswich, N. H. His name appears in a return of men who enlisted at Cambridge for eight months. He took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and served during the Siege of Boston, being discharged about the time of the evacuation. Apr. 1st, 1777, he appears as Sergeant of the 1st Company, Welcome's Regiment. So far .. we do not know the information on his wife or whether they had any children. Thank you for your time. Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. George Kidder in Florida is in the process of updating the book on the "Descendants of Ensign James Kidder ..." He plans on publishing the updated version of the 1941 book .. in the year 2005.