Hello,   For many years I've been wondering where my ancestor's older brother, Wilder KIDDER, lived his last years and died.   No one seemed to know.      According to the KIDDER book,  he was "a famous and animated Fifer" in the American Revolution.    And he fought in several states.    While in NJ, in 1781 he married a NJ woman, Margaret "Lucretia" MIDDAGH.     They never had children, and we don't know where they lived after the marriage.     The main KIDDER researcher found them living in Tioga County, NY, in 1810.    And I found them in 1820 living in Jaffrey, NH.    But I asked and they did not die there.        Wilder was born in 1753 in New Ipswich, NH,  and was the oldest of 9 children born to Joseph and Rebecca (CHAMBERLAIN) KIDDER.  *    The family moved to the next town, Temple, NH.     There is a soldier's monument in Temple, and Wilder's name is on it.      Joseph and Rebecca had 3 sons, and also their youngest, Joseph, Jr., fought as a young teen.  **   Because so much more information is now on-line,  this weekend I found a book on-line,  "Pension Rolls for 1835 for the Mid-Atlantic States."    Wilder's name is there, so it is known he was alive in 1835.    And it mentions he had transferred from Cheshire Co., NH.      I found another reference to him being in NY in 1835.     Wilder would have been 72 that year,  so he could have lived a long life, possibly up past 1840, even up to 1850.    (His father had lived to see Age 90.)       Thinking about this, I'm curious whether he went back to live in Tioga Co., NY.     So, I went to find information on that county, and I found out it has an Historical Society.     I just e-mailed them.     On the web site it mentions a little about the few towns in the County.       One of the towns was started by a group of men from Boston, MA.   http://www.tiogahistory.org/Site/Newark_Valley.html   In the year 1785 or 1786 there was formed in Boston, Mass., a company of eleven men (later enlarged to sixty) for the purchase of land “in the west.” Three of the original eleven soon came to this part of the county to “view the land.” These men were Amos Patterson, his brother-in-law, Co. Avid Pixley and Captain Joseph Raymond. The company, or syndicate, as it would be termed now, purchased this tract of land from the “Government of Massachusetts,” then called the Boston Purchase or Boston Ten Townships. They called themselves the “Boston Purchase Company.” Col. Pixley was one of the commissioners sent out to trade with the Indians for “rights to the soil.” He learned the Indian language and greatly endeared himself to the Indians. I'll investigate this further,  but I thought someone on this List might be interested in this "Boston Purchase" in NY State.   Betty                  (near Lowell, MA)   *Their middle son was my ancestor,  Calvin KIDDER, b1765 NH.    ~1784 he followed other NH families to New Brunswick, but he was not a Loyalist or Sympathizer.    Perhaps at 19 he followed a girlfriend. **     There is a mystery about the youngest son,  Joseph, Jr.,  as he had a cousin with the same name.   The cousin was Joseph, son of Francis, of the Westford area.    They both fought in the Rev. War,  and no one knows which was was killed in NY and which one survived to marry in Temple, NH.