Good morning, In my continuing search for any and all information about KIDDER families in Maine ... from 1765 to the present, I'd still love to hear about all Kidder's who settled in Maine, especially in Washington County, Maine.* However, I'd like to ask some specific questions: o Someone has provided me with some records from "Vital Records from Eastport Sentinel of Eastport, ME, 1818-1900," which state that the youngest child of Calvin and Mary Kidder was: JAMES THOMPSON KIDDER, B. 1847 IN CALAIS, ME. In 8 years of looking, I have not yet found any other information on this... James Kidder, b1847. Would anyone know whether he did live to adulthood, marry, and have children? (Note: This list is not complete, as Calvin and Mary had another daughter born to them: Mercy Kidder, b1850.) (Two of their children died as teens, thus did not make it to adulthood.) o One of my sources of information in the past were the Town Clerks in Princeton, Maine. My last (slow-mail) letter from Grace Hiland was from 1998, and she was just beginning the humungous job of computerizing the Town Hall records. ......... Would someone be able to tell me if the Princeton Town Clerk ... has a web site or an e-mail address? o In my line of Kidder men there were ... two Calvin Kidder men who began the Kidder history in Washington County; they were father and son: Calvin Kidder (1765-1799) and .. J. Calvin Kidder (1799-1891). In my long research, I have gathered the names of the ~20 grandchildren of Calvin and Mary (Wilkins) Kidder. They came from their three sons who grew to adulthood, John, Joe, and Cal, Jr. Even though that name, Calvin, was carried through 3 generations, I have not yet found a Calvin Kidder in the fourth generation. ........ And, yet, several people have told me about a Calvin Kidder who was still living, and another Calvin Kidder who was alive in the early 1900's. ........ Does anyone have any information at all about someone, named or nicknamed, Calvin Kidder, in Maine in the 1900's? o Just a few nights ago, someone ..finally.. provided me with the name of the first Calvin Kidder's wife. From the Anglican Church Records of St. Andrew's, NB, depending on how you read the handwriting was either ... Mary Greenlaw or Mercy Greenlaw (probably born around 1765 in either ME or NB). Either name is believable. I have a record of a Mrs. Mary Kidder dying in Portland, ME, in 1819. And, yet, Calvin Kidder had a granddaughter, named Mercy Kidder, b1850. ......... Calvin Kidder and Mary/Mercy Greenlaw married in St. Andrews, NB, in 1797, and they had a son born to them in January 1799... in St. Stephen, NB. .... In February 1799 Calvin was killed in a boating accident. .... I as yet have no idea how the widow, Mrs. Mary/Mercy Kidder, and her newborn son, spent the next 30 years (1799-1830). The son, "Calvin" Kidder, did not emerge again in records until 1830, when he appeared to move to Calais, ME. *GOOD NEWS: Because of my research, and queries placed in many places, both on-line and in newspapers and YANKEE, I have found about a half-dozen "very/very distant cousins" (all descended from Princeton, ME). But, I also have a few Kidder pen-pals from Maine. One of them is a gentlemen, named Earl Kidder from Auburn, ME. He does not have a computer. During the past four months, I have connected him up with a niece in South Carolina, and a long-lost grandson, who is currently stationed in ICELAND. (Computers are GOOD! :o) Thank you for your time! Have a great day! Betty (near Lowell, MA)