Hi Dick, You are correct that Mary KIDDER, b1745, could very easily have been one of the descendants from that extended James KIDDER family from Mansfield, CT. I can check for you later in the day to see if I can find her. Or, you can e-mail George KIDDER and ask him. He has everything in his computer, and indexed, and searchable ! In case I forgot to post the URL for George's web site, it is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1255/1255.htm His contact information is there ! Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard "Dick" Hillenbrand" <nygenes@gmail.com> To: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net>; <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:43 AM Subject: Re: KIDDER Family to Nine Partners ~1750 > Betty wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I haven't written about the KIDDER families in a while ! But, I >> continue to try to help George KIDDER in FL in his attempts to update the >> 1941 "KIDDER book." >> >> One family with a lot of missing information is the James KIDDER family >> which was one of the first families to leave the MA Bay Colony. He and >> his wife moved to Mansfield, CT, ~1703 - about when that town was being >> founded. They had many children born there, but, if you read his >> paragraph in "the KIDDER book," it seems that many members of his >> family, including himself, might have been victims of the "Smallpox >> epidemic" in the 1720's ! >> >> One curious thing is that the "KIDDER book" says that the eldest son, >> James KIDDER, "was appointed executor of his father's estate" in 1729, >> and "was present at the settlement of his grandfather's estate in >> Cambridge, MA," in 1734. In 1740, he "deeded" his land to his mother >> and an "in-law" in Mansfield, CT and moved to VT, and subsequently to >> Delhi, NY. What is curious is that the KIDDER book has him marrying a >> Hannah CURTIS (no place, no year), but him not having a son, James >> KIDDER, until ~1780 -- when James was in his 70's !!! >> >> This past week, someone has posted a query about James' brother, Ephraim >> KIDDER, who married Freedom BARNARD, in Coventry, CT. They had 8 >> children born there, and then moved to Nine Partners, NY, ~1750, where >> they had 3 more sons ! >> >> The "KIDDER book" only has information on 3 of their sons, Oliver, Abel, >> and Ephraim, Jr., and one of their daughters (out of 11 children). >> But the person looking for information is looking for the >> next-to-youngest son, John KIDDER, b~1755. >> >> (One of the sons moved to the "Berkshires" in MA, but we don't know which >> one !) >> >> I was wondering if anyone had any information on these KIDDER families ! >> >> And, I was wondering if anyone has any KIDDER information which they >> would like included in the "updated version" of the 1941 book - which >> George Kidder in FL hopes to publish next year ! >> >> Thank you for your time ! >> >> Betty (near Lowell, MA) >> >> P.S. I believe Nine Partners was one of those "border towns" which >> might have been in VT at some point. >> > I have one that is no doubt from this group but I have never been able to > discover her parentage. > > Mary KIDDER 1745-1822, b. poss. CT - d. Columbia Co., NY and is buried in > the East Chatham Cemetery with her husband Capt. Nathan HERRICK 1743-1826. > > I would be very happy to conspire with others on this. > > Dick Hillenbrand > Upstate New York Genealogy (UNYG) > website: http://www.ny-genes.com > > >