My grandfather was Vernon Kidder, son of William, son of Foster Benjamin (b. 10/11/1825 in Townline, NY), son of Benjamin (b. 8/1/1799 in Windham VT), son of Jedidiah (b. about 1770 in VT). Jedidiah was married to Chloe. Can anyone take this back farther than Jedidiah? Thank you.

Hello,

Your line is from James' son, Ephraim, in Billerica. See below.

Betty (near Lowell, MA)


141 JEDEDIAH1 KIDDER (Samuel, Richard, Ephraim, James), born at Dudley, Mass., 2 or 22 Aug. 1767; died at Wardsboro, Vt., 1 Nov. 1829. He married at Dudley, 5 May 1789, CHLOE FOSTER, born there 18 Oct. 1773; died at Wardsboro, 10 Apr. 1820, and was buried there, daughter of Timothy, Jr., and Rachel (Robinson) FOSTER.
Children, born at Wardsboro:
355 i. TIMOTHY, b. 17 Sept. 1789.

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ii. TRYPHENA, b. 3 Oct. 1791; d. at Moscow, Ia.; m. at Wardsboro, 2 Feb. 1817, DANIEL L.
HEALY of Dudley.
Children (sumame Healy):
1. William.
2. Abial.
3. Chester.
4. Edwin.
5. Maria.
6. Hezekiah.
iii. SUSAN, b. 1 Apr. 1794; m. at Dudley, 25 Aug. 1818, ENOCH Healy of Dudley, b. there 8
Nov. 1792; d. in Michigan, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Davis) Healy.
Children (surname Healey):
1. Nelson ("Nelse"), b. 20 Aug. 1819.
2. Susan, b. 4 Aug. 1821, m. -- Fredenberg of Leonidas, St. Joseph Co., Mich.
3. Agatha, b. 13 Oct. 1824.
4. Enoch, b. 6 Oct. 1828.
356 iv. FOSTER, b. 27 Feb. 1797.
357 v. BENJAMIN HARRISON, b. 1 Aug. 1799.
358 vi. JEDEDIAH, b. 29 Jan. 1802.
359 vii. DWIGHT, b. 15

viii. CHLOE, b. 10 Apr. 1806; d. at Southbridge, Mass., 23 Apr. 1885; m. at Dudley, 23 Dec. 1827,
JOHN CONGDON of Southbridge, son of John and Mary (Bowers) CONGDON.
Children (surname CONGDON):
1. Jane Eliza, b. at Dudley, 21 June 1829; m. 1 June 1851, Josiah C. Hall of Sturbridge,
Worcester Co., Mass.
2. John KIDDER, b. at Worcester, Mass., 5 Dec. 1830; d. at Nevada, Cal., 13 June 1857,
and buried there.
3. George, b. at Sturbridge, Mass., 5 May 1839; m. 17 June 1862, Ella M. Stiles of
Lawrence, Mass.
4. Emily Chloe, b. 18 Jan. 1841; m. 30 Apr. 1862, Robert Herron.
360 ix. TRUMAN, b. 1 Mar. 1808.
361 x. NELSON, b. 28 Apr. 1811.

357 BENJAMIN HARRISON KIDDER (Jedediah, Samuel, Richard, Ephraim, James), born at Wardsboro, Vt., 1 Aug. 1799; died at Townline, Alden, Erie Co., N. Y., 30 Dec. 1874. He married at Wardsboro in 1822, LYDIA LELAND PERRY of that place, born there 11 July 1802; died at Townline, Alden, N. Y., daughter of Levi and Rhoda (Fairbanks) Perry.
Benjamin HARRISON KIDDER left Vermont about the year 1831 with his wife and four young children for western New York, travelling by stage to Albany, thence by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, finally settling in a small village known as Townline, about 15 miles east of that city. Here he spent the remainder of his life. He is said to have been a farmer, as well as an excellent carpenter and joiner.
Children:
i. RHODA, b. 17 Aug. 1823; m. in 1844, SALMON HOLMES WILBOR, d. in 1851. No children.
747 ii. FOSTER BENJAMIN, b. 11 Oct. 1825.
iii. FRANCES, b. 3 Jan. 1828; m. in 1848, LAFAYETTE COOPER.
Children (surname COOPER):
1. Jennie, b. 7 Apr. 1852.
2. Perry LELAND, b. 9 Oct. 1854.
3. Lucia, b. 23 Sept. 1857; m. in 1879, Simon Stutsman.
4. Lafayette, b. 24 Dec. 1859.
5. Laura, b. 8 July 1866.
6. Chester, b. in 1868; d. 30 Mar. 1890.
748 iv. BRADFORD PERRY, b. at Brattleboro, Vt., 15 July 1830.
v. JOSEPHINE LURINTHA, b. 15 Oct. 1832; m. in 1850, SIR ROBERT LOONEY of Looneyville,
Erie Co., N. Y., b. in Isle of Man; d. in 1872.
Children (surname LOONEY):
1. Josephine, b. 25 May 1851; m. at Looneyville, N. Y., 13 Sept. 1871, Frank Harry
Goodyear of Buffalo, N. Y.

2. Eva, b. 21 Sept. 1853: m. in 1872, Genl. Thomas H. Mill, a graduate of West Point
Military Academy, and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars.
3. Grace, b. 7 Apr. 1856.
4. Robert, b. 26 Nov. 1858; m. in 1878, Florence Fuller.
5. Eugenie, b. 15 Mar. 1862.
6. William Wallace, b. 8 Apr. 1867; d. in 1874.
vi. HARRISON LELAND, b. 1 Dec. 1835; d. in 1&52.
vii. ROSALTHA LIDIA, b. in 1837; m. in 1860, HENRY LYMAN HARLOW.
Children (surname HARLOW):
1. Alice Dell, b. 11 Apr. 1861; m. Edward Clemens Fields of Buffalo, N. Y.
2. Pearl or Paul KIDDER, b. in 1864.
3. Robert LYMAN, b. in 1868.
4. Thomas Henry, b. in 1871.
viii. AMELIA HADASSA, b. 26 Jan. 1840; d. 14 Nov. 1865; m. at Alden, N. Y., 10 July 1861,
THOMAS LEARY of Lancaster, N. Y., b. in Ireland, 14 Sept. 1834.
Children (surname LEARY):
1. George Thomas McClellan, b. 5 Sept. 1862; d. 21 Feb. 1866.
2. Marion Amelia, b. 4 July 1864.
ix. MARION ROSELIA, b. 17 July 1843; m. in 1860, JUDSON SILLIMAN.
Children (surname SILLIMAN):
1. George.
2. Charles.

59 SAMUEL KIDDER (Richard, Ephraim, James), born at Dudley, Mass., 8 Feb. 1734; died there in 1776 from smallpox contracted in the army. He married at Dudley, 30 Mar. 1758, SARAH CORBIN, born there 14 Sept. 1740; died there 16 Feb. 1831 in her 91st year, daughter of Elisha and "Sally" (Healy) CORBIN. She married secondly, in 1785, JONATHAN BACON of Dudley, who died 25 June 1815 in his 87th year.
Samuel KIDDER acquired a small farm in Dudley on which he lived and reared his family of seven children. On the Lexington Alarm he joined a group of fellow townsmen in taking up arms in defense of their liberties. He took part in the Siege of Boston in 1775 during which service he contracted smallpox from which he died on his return to Dudley in 1776.
A strange tale has been handed down in his family of his having killed and bitten a rattlesnake in the belief that by so doing his teeth would be preserved, a superstition then current in the country. He is said to have had wonderfully preserved teeth until his death.
Children, born at Dudley:

i. SARAH, b. 17 Mar. 1759; m. at Dudley, 15 Jan. 1778, STEPHEN EDMUNDS, b. there 12 July
1755, son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Newell) EDMUNDS, Jr.
Child (surname EDMUNDS):
1. Hannah, b. 22 Aug. 1781.
ii. REBECCA, b. 3 May 1761; d. at Dudley, 19 July 1819; m. at Dudley, 25 Nov. 1779, JOSIAH
BARNES, b. 20 Jan. 1752; d. at Dudley, 28 July 1843, aged 92.
Children (surname Barnes), born at Dudley:
1. Sarah, b. 1 June 1780.
2. Joel, b. 27 Apr. 1782.
3. Samuel, b. 5 July 1784.
4. Adah, b. 25 July 1786.
5. Alfred, b. 22 June 1789.
6. Alice, b. 12 Jan. 1792.
7. Benjamin, b. 11 July 1794.
8. Moses, b. 17 Nov. 1796.
9. Deborah, b. 4 Oct. 1800.
10. John (?), b. 21. Nov. 1807.
139 iii. SAMUEL, b. 3 May 1763.
140 iv. NATHANIEL, b. 2 May 1765.
141 v. JEDEDIAH, b. 2 Aug. 1767.
142 vi. RICHARD, b. 20 July 1769.
143 vii. EZBAI, b. 29 Sept. 1772.
viii. HANNAH (?).

Hello. Several families from Billerica, MA, headed out to the Worcester, MA, area. Oxford is 2 towns south of Worcester, and it is one town north of the CT border. From another ancestor, I know about the Killingly, CT, area where several families headed there, even from Providence, RI, area. The "quiet corner" of CT is the very northeast corner of the state, and it was a "travel route" to get to the CT shore, etc.

FYI:

In 1727 Richard Kidder owned a houselot of forty acres in the Southern part of the town of Oxford, and in 1729 he bought from the heirs of Joseph Dudley one hundred and fifty acres in that portion of the same town which later became Dudley. It was situated in the Upham neighborhood near what later became the road from Oxford to Dudley, and here he settled and continued to live in after life. He was active in town affairs and served as selectman. His will, dated March 11, 1773, made no reference to wife or sons.


I don't remember when Worcester was first settled.

Betty (near Lowell, MA)


FYI:

This is the first Kidder to move to CT:

9 JAMES Kidder (James, James), born at Billerica, Mass., 27 June 1679; died at Mansfield, Conn., 18 May 1729. He married at Concord, Mass., 8 Nov. 1703, MARY ABBOTT of that town, born at Andover, Mass., 23 July 1686, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Sarah (Steward) ABBOTT.
James Kidder settled in Mansfield, Conn. about 1703, the year of its incorporation as a town, and thus became one of its earliest inhabitants. He purchased twentyfive or thirty acres of land there in 1709. His will, dated 22 Mar. 1729, in which he describes himself as "Husband man," "sick and weak in body," provides for the appointment, as sole executor, of his son James to whom he devises "all my lands in Mansfield" and other property. To his wife Mary, he bequeaths certain specified items, and "all my movable estate and one third rooms, & c."

This has help us greatly! Thank you very much. It will now be easier to sort through the papers that we have.