Captain
Joseph
Kidder
Born in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Ephriam Kidder Jr
and Abigail (Frost) Kidder
Brother of
Ephriam Kidder III, Josiah Kidder, Sarah (Kidder) Grimes, Jeremiah Kidder and Abigail (Kidder) Hardy
Husband of
Abigail (Hardy) Thompson
— married
1 Jun 1740 in Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Nehemiah Kidder
Died about
at about age 56
in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
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Biography
Joseph Kidder was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, on 4 Jul 1714, to parents Ephraim Kidder, Jr. and Abigail (Frost) Kidder.[1]
He married Abigail (Unknown) before 1 Jun 1740, when they were admitted as husband and wife to the church at Tewksbury.
He was commissioned as a captain in the Middlesex County militia and served as selectman at Tewksbury.
Joseph and Abigail Kidder recorded 10 children at Tewksbury between 1742 and 1760.[2]
- Abigail, b. 17 Mar 1742/3 - d. 12 Nov 1749
- Joseph, b. 14 Apr 1744 - d. 21 Jun 1750
- Lemuel, b. 1 Feb 1746/7 - d. 26 Oct 1749
- Mary, b. 12 Feb 1746/7 - d. 26 Oct 1749
- Nehemiah Kidder - b. 9 Apr 1749
- Joseph #2, b. 8 Jul 1751 - d. 26 Oct 1753
- Mary #2, b. 21 Dec 1755
- Lemuel #2, b. 13 Aug 1753
- Abigail #2, no birth date recorded
- Hepzibah, b. 19 Oct 1760
He died at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on 27 Apr 1771.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (: 20 May 2022), Joseph Kidder, 4 Jul 1714; citing Birth, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009657.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 20 May 2022), Joseph Kidder in entry for Abigail Kidder, 12 Nov 1749; citing Death, Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010701. All ten children mentioned above are listed here. There may be more elsewhere.
- Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts
- Morgan Hewitt Stafford, 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 (Rutland, Vt., 1941), page 50, which lists his children with their birth dates
Acknowledgements
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