Hi "Kidder Kin" My line of Kidder men is: James, John, Thomas, Joseph, Calvin, J. Calvin, Joseph, G. Sanford, Clinton, Clinton. And, they traveled in a family-circle of a different sort. They moved from Greater Boston to Billerica & Chelmsford, MA, to New Ipswich & Temple, NH, to Princeton, ME, to Calais, Me/St. Stephen, NB, and back to Greater Boston and back to Billerica & Chelmsford, MA - over a 350-yr. period. At least a half-dozen generations of Kidders have lived in the towns near Calais, ME, since around 1785 (to the present). BUT, Calvin Kidder (1765-1799) wasn't the first Kidder to settle in Maine. I have found out that Richard Kidder from Billerica, MA, settled in towns near the present Dresden, ME, in 1765. But, from 1799, when Calvin Kidder was killed in a boating accident in the St. Croix River, to the year 1820, when Maine gained Statehood, twenty Kidder cousins were living in "the Northern Territory of Massachusetts." Considering how "prolific" the Kidder descendants were, those 20 Kidder cousins (before 1820) in Maine...MUST have produced thousands....of Kidder descendants. And, I believe a great many Kidder descendants continue to live in Maine. Gathering information about the Kidders in northern Maine has been very difficult. And, the KIDDER FAMILY ASSOCIATION has a great deal of information on Kidders in Maine, but it does not have ALL the information it should have, especially from NORTHERN Maine. I would like to create a list of ALL the Kidder descendants* who ever lived in Maine! This would include the 1700's right up to the present! If you have some information which you think I would need (or enjoy), please send them to me via e-mail. Thank you very much. Betty in Billerica *Kidder Family History: "A Genealogy of the Kidder Family Comprising the Descendants in the Male Line of Ensign James Kidder 1626-1676 of Cambridge and Billerica in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay," by M. H. Stafford, a member of the NEHGS in Boston, from 1941. (~800 pages)