----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Jones <sharon.jones34@gte.net> To: cherokee6 <cherokee6@bright.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:33 AM Subject: Re: {not a subscriber} Another Kidder Family | I have copied from two different sources the following passages. | | JAMES KIDDER was born in East Grinstead, Sussex County, England about 1626. | When he was was about 23 he came to New England and settled in Cambridge, | Massachusetts. In 1649 he married Anna Moore, the daughter of Francis | Moore, a church elder. They lived there until about 1661 when church | records indicate that they transfered to a church in Billerica, | Massachusetts. | While in Cambridge, they had 6 children. They also had six children in | Billerica. James Kidder died on April 16, 1676 at about 50 years of age. | The inventory of his estate was filed June 1, 1677. | | (VII)JAMES KIDDER (2), son of James (1) , was born in East Grinstead in | 1626, died April 16, 1676. He came to America and located at Cambridge, | Massachusetts, as early as 1649. In 1655 he occupied a farm of two hundred | and eighty-nine acres situated in what is now East Cambridge. In that year | the town of Shawshine, now Billerica, was granted to Cambridge and with | other Cambridge men moved thither. Both he and his wife were members of the | Cambridge church in full communion and they were charter members of the | church at Billerica. In 1662 he was a juror at Cambridge and sergeant of the | military | company at Billerica. In 1675. during King Philip's war, he kept guard over | a small tribe of Indians at Wamesit, now part of Lowell, and was afterward | in command of a garrison house containing seven families, including his own. | He married, in Cambridge, about 1649, Ann, daughter of Elder Francis Moore, | one of the leading citizens of Cambridge. She survived him and married | (second) William Underwood, of Chelmsford, March 17, 1684-85. Children: | Hannah. born March 1. 1650-51; | Dorothy, 1652; | James, January 3, 1654; | John, 1656; | Thomas, March 1, 1657; | Nathaniel, 1658; | Ephraim, August 31, 1660; | Stephen, November 26, 1662; | Enoch, September 12, 1664; | Samuel, mentioned below. | (Source: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV, William | R Cutter, 1913, pg 1957) | | JAMES KIDDER, Cambridge, 1619, son of James born abt 1626 at East Grinstead, | County Sussex, ENG by wife Ann daughter of Elder Francis Moore married in | 1649 had | Hannah born 1 Mar 1650; | Dorothy 1651; | James 3 Jan 1654; | John 1655; | Thomas 1 Mar 1657; all bapt as Mitchell's Register test without giving | dates; | Nathaniel bapt 27 Feb 1659; | Ephriam born 31 Aug 1660 bapt 26 May 1661; dismissed to church at Billerica, | there had | Stephen 26 Nov 1662; | Enoch 16 Sept 1664; | Samuel 7 Jan 1666; | Sarah 1 June 1667; and | Joseph 30 Nov 1670; | and died about 1683. Descendants it is commonly said may be found in every | state of this union. Dorothy married 6 June 1673 the second Jonathon Hyde; | and Sarah married 30 Jan 1690 George Brown. | (Source: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the 1st Settlers of NE", James | Savage, 1860) | | Thought you might be interested. | Sharon Jones | | | -----Original Message----- | From: cherokee6 <cherokee6@bright.net> | To: KIDDER-L@rootsweb.com <KIDDER-L@rootsweb.com> | Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 7:23 AM | Subject: Re: {not a subscriber} Another Kidder Family | | | >Hi Jerry and Welcome to the Kidder Mailing List, | >I am studying the following: | >1.Rasmusser, Louis J. "San Francisco Ship Passenger List" | >2. Fothergill, Gerald "Emigrants from England". | >3.Tepper, Michael "Passengers to America--List from England". | >From 1 I have found Miss Kidder no age given to San Francisco 1862 pg | >67. | >From 1 I have found Miss J. F. Kidder to age given to San Francisco | >1853 pg. 139. | >From 1 Mrs. M. Kidder no age given to San Francisco "with boy" 1852 | >pg. 87. | >From 1 R. T. Kidder no age given to San Francisco 1852 pg. 126. | >From 2 Benjamin Kidder age 15 to Baltimore 1775 pg 164. | >From 2 William Kidder age 20 to Maryland 1774 pg. 98. | >From 3 Benjamin Kidder age 15 to Baltimore 1775 pg 388. | >From 3 William Kidder age 20 to Maryland 1774 pg. 320 | >These last two entries though sited from different sources must be the | >same young Kidder men. | >I have just recently found in "The Genealogist Guide": | >Kidder---Sussex Archaeological Collection Volume 9 pages 130-138. | >All of the sources sited must be studied much more. | >Also from Banks, Charles Edward "Emigrants to England" | >James Kidder no age given Cambridge, Mass. 1620-1650 pg. 171. | >Do you know in what part of England Sussex is located? | >I was told the Kidders left England because they were Anabaptists; I | >suppose that means there was a dispute with the Church of England; but | >do not really know for sure. | >Thank you in advance. | >Sincerely, | >Ramona Gayle Bayes Woods | >List Mom for Kidder at Rootsweb.com | > | > | > | > | >----- Original Message ----- | >From: Jerry Reed <jereed@attglobal.net> | >To: <KIDDER-L@rootsweb.com> | >Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 6:28 AM | >Subject: {not a subscriber} Another Kidder Family | > | > | >| Hello list mom and all. I descend from a line of Kidders that is not | >often | >| cited in this country. | >| | >| George Kidder b. 1669 - Dorcas Fowler | >| Thomas Kidder b. 1728 (Canterbury, Kent) - Elizabeth | >| George Kidder b.1755 d. before 1842 (Canterbury,Kent) - Elizabeth | >Swain b. | >| 1766 d. 1858 (Canterbury, Kent) | >| John Kidder b. 1798 (Marden, Kent) d.1888 Morris NY - Mary Ann Payne | >b. 1805 | >| (Marden, Kent) d. 1853 Morris, NY | >| John Swain Kidder b. 1830 (Charing Kent) d. 1905 (Laurens, NY) - | >Harriet O. | >| Matteson b. 1836 (Laurens, NY) d. 1922 (Laurens NY) | >| Fayette Allen b. 1864 d. 1945 - Mary Selina Kidder b. 1864 d. 1949 | >| Erdie Fred Washburn b. 1886 d. 1974 - Harriett E. Allen b. 1889 d. | >1969 | >| Mary H. Washburn - Robert G. Reed | >| Jerry E. Reed | >| | >| | >| | >| Jerry E. 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