Good Monday Morning Everyone, This is from one of our New England Kidder Cousins who has done very good research on our family. She is only subbed to our Kidder Digest; but will read and reply to postings using the Digest. If anyone is connected to our Kidder Ancestors listed here; please send e mail to the following address: bbffrrpp@mediaone.net I hope everyone had a good weekend. Sincerely, Ramona | | > I am searching for any descendants of Calvin Kidder of Princeton, ME | > Actually there were two Calvin Kidder's, father and son. Calvin | > Kidder (1765-1799) arrived in northern Maine around 1785, but he settled | > in St. Stephen, NB. Two months before his untimely death, his son, | > Joseph "Calvin" Kidder was born. This Calvin Kidder (1799-1891) grew | > up in St. Stephen, NB, and remained there until he was over 30. After | > that he married a woman from Amity, ME, and moved to that town. Then | he lived in Calais, ME, for a while with his wife and 6 or 7 children. | > There were rumors that he owned a large Land Grant in Princeton, ME, | > inherited from his late father. But, neither Calvin ever settled on | > the land. It was the 3 oldest sons of Calvin and Mary (Wilkins) | > Kidder who ended up owning large farms in Princeton, ME. They were | > Jonathon, Calvin, and Joseph Kidder. Between those 3 brothers, they | > had over 30 children. Joseph Kidder was my ancestor. Joseph and | > Clarissa (Wilkins) Kidder had 6 children. The oldest was George | > "Sanford" Kidder, born in 1870. "Sanford" Kidder was my | > great-grandfather. The other children were Julia, Frank, Ruth, | > Clinton, and Aurelia. ...... In his early 20's, "Sanford" | > married a Hattie Chubbock, but she died a few months later. In this | > late 20's, he married a woman from Arlington, MA. Louise Rice and | > her sister, Edith Rice, were visiting their Rice grandparents in Lubec, | > ME, and at the time, "Sanford" was living in Eastport, ME. | > "Sanford" and Louise married in Princeton, ME, in 1898, but they came | > back to Arlington, MA, to live. ..... "Sanford" and Louise Kidder | > had 3 children: Clarissa Adelaide Kidder, George "Sanford" Kidder, | > Jr., and Clinton Wellington Kidder. ....... I have been | > researching the KIDDER family tree for 7-8 years. I have found out | > quite a bit of information about my line of Kidder men, which went from | > Billerica and Chelmsford, MA, to New Ipswich and Temple, NH, UP TO | > Princeton, ME, and St. Stephen, NB. But, it is the families in | > Princeton, ME, which is my ROADBLOCK. ......... I have found out | > some information about my great-grandfather and his two brothers. | > Frank Kidder and Clinton Kidder had both moved their families to Berlin, | > NH. And, I have connected with several of Frank Kidder's | > descendants! Clinton Kidder had a serious illness and they moved | > back to Princeton, ME. I have connected with the daughter born to | > him a year before he died. BUT, I know almost nothing about their | > three sisters. All I have found out is their married names: | > Mrs. Julia (Kidder) Robinson, Mrs. Ruth (Kidder) Moore, and Mrs. | > Aurelia (Kidder) Harris. (Mrs. John Robinson, Mrs. Alex Moore, Mrs. | > John Harris). And, I have also found out they all passed away during | > the 1920's. I would very much like to find out if they had any | > children. | > .... I'd also like to mention the fact that there is a Kidder Family | > Association. George Kidder in FL runs it, and he is searching for ALL | > Kidder descendants! | > .... Both Calvin Kidder (the son) and Joseph Kidder (his son) married | > woman from northern Maine, with the surname, Wilkins. Because of the | > age difference, they were probably not sisters or cousins, but they | > could have been an aunt and niece. What I am saying is that I suspect | > they were related to each other. | > .... I know the names and approx. birth years of over 30 of Calvin and | > Mary Kidder's grandchildren. But, that's all I know. | > .... Someone in CA has informed me that Calvin and Mary Kidder had | > another son, James Kidder (b1847), whom I can find no other information | > on. | > .... Another Kidder descendant I have connected with is a descendant | > of Jonathon Kidder, my great-great-grandfather's older brother. | > "John's" first wife died soon after the birth of their 5th? son; he | > remarried. "John" and Jane Kidder had a son of their own, Joseph | > Lewis Kidder. I have found one of his descendants. | > .... For over 5 years, I have been trying to get the Kidder families | > which still live in the towns surrounding Princeton, ME, to correspond | > with me, and they will NOT. One Kidder descendant in Bar Harbor was | > annoyed that I had contacted him. I am curious if there are "family | > secrets," etc., which they do not wish to reveal. Or, are there | > just too many "private families" in that area? | | > Thank you for listening. In case I haven't made it clear, I would | > dearly love to correspond with ANY descendant of Calvin Kidder of | > Princeton, ME. And, in an attempt to help George Kidder, I would | > dearly love to create a file on ALL the Kidders in Maine.... I had originally thought that Calvin Kidder, from New Ipswich, NH, | > was the first Kidder to settle in Maine around 1785, but a year ago I | > found out that Richard Kidder from Billerica, MA, settled in Maine | > around 1765, the year Calvin was born. From a Census Form, I found | > out that between 1800 and 1820, twenty Kidder cousins settled in "the | > Northern Territory of Massachusetts." | > .... The "Kidder Family History" involves: the descendants of Ensign | > James Kidder (1626-1676) who arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | > around 1648, and settled first in Cambridge, MA, and then next in | > Billerica, MA. He and his wife had 12 children, and many of their | > children had 12 children each, and so the story continued. | | | > (Greater Boston) |