Esther (Wait) Kidder (1781 - 1855)

Born 19 Sep 1781 in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Kidder — married 22 Oct 1800 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 30 Jul 1855 at age 73 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Esther was born at Sutton, Massachusetts in 1781, the daughter of William Waite and Sarah Cummings.

She married Jacob Kidder at Worcester, Massachusetts on 22 Oct 1800. This date is unsourced. They were the parents of ten known children. By 1820, they are living at Dixfield, Maine, according to the 1820 US census for Dixfield.

Esther passed away in 1855 and is buried at the Riverside Cemetery, Dixfield, Maine.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VG-7LQ : 20 May 2022), Esther Waite, 19 Sep 1781; citing Birth, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009440.

• "Esther Waite in the Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633." Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/749524:7853?indiv=try&h&_phsrc=Ogh1272&db. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.

• "United States Census, 1820", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:XHG9-6CL : Mon Mar 20 09:07:26 UTC 2023), Entry for Ester Kidder, 1820.

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5P-C56 : 20 February 2021), Esther Kidder, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing 70, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 50; FHL microfilm 497,946.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V9-TCR : 22 December 2020), Esther Kidder in household of John C Kidder, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122007785/esther-kidder), memorial page for Esther Waite Kidder (19 Sep 1781–30 Jul 1855), Find a Grave Memorial ID 122007785, citing Riverside Cemetery, Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA.

• "Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKM1-9VBB : 3 March 2021), Esther Kidder, 1855; citing Burial, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,769,779.