Selected Families and Individuals

Source Citations

Benjamin THOMPSON

1"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC99-KZK : Sat Mar 09 10:02:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Benjamen Tompson and Joseph Tompson, 7 December 1685.

2"Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVK-K6RM : Wed Apr 02 23:16:07 UTC 2025), Entry for Benjamin Tompson.

3Town Clerk, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Billerica, Middlesex, MA 1627-1834 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), p. 23, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL book area US/CAN 974.44/C4 v2c.

4"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7F-7YM : Thu Mar 07 09:27:30 UTC 2024), Entry for Benjamin Tompson and Alice Kidder, 9 November 1715.

Alice KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220. "Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, M. R.- MIDDLESEX COUNTY RECORD, EAST CAMBRIDGE."

2"Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVK-K651 : Thu Apr 03 03:59:39 UTC 2025), Entry for Alice Kidder Tomson.

3"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V4-LVF : Fri Mar 08 00:49:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Alice Kidder and Ephrim Kidder, 8 February 1693.

4Paige, Lucius Robinson , 1802-1896. (Main Author), History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 : with a genealogical register (Boston : H.O. Houghton, 1877), LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, 974.44/C1 D2p.

5Town Clerk, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Billerica, Middlesex, MA 1627-1834 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), p. 23, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL book area US/CAN 974.44/C4 v2c.

6"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7F-7YM : Thu Mar 07 09:27:30 UTC 2024), Entry for Benjamin Tompson and Alice Kidder, 9 November 1715.

Jonathan BALLARD

1Morgan 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. : Tuttle Publishing, 1941), p. 13, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 K538s.

2American Ancestors https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-1620-1850/transcript?pageName=49&volumeId=7646&rId=141256068. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024. "Birth "Ballard, Johnathan, s. John and Rebeckah, Dec. 9, 1686.".".

3American Ancestors N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2015. . "death "Ballard, Jonathan, Dr., Feb. 1, 1764.".".

4Town Clerk, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Billerica, Middlesex, MA 1627-1834 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL book area US/CAN 974.44/C4 v2c.

5"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7F-WZZ : Sun Mar 10 14:21:28 UTC 2024), Entry for Jonathan Ballard and Hannah Kidd..., 30 August 1722.

Hannah KIDDER twin

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD1-KJH : 15 January 2020), Hannah Kidder, 1695.

3Morgan 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. : Tuttle Publishing, 1941), p. 13, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL FAM HIST Book 929.273 K538s.

4Town Clerk, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Billerica, Middlesex, MA 1627-1834 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL book area US/CAN 974.44/C4 v2c.

5"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7F-WZZ : Sun Mar 10 14:21:28 UTC 2024), Entry for Jonathan Ballard and Hannah Kidd..., 30 August 1722.

Thomas KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V4-LV5 : Fri Mar 08 00:49:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas Kidder and Ephrim Kidder, 3 August 1700.

3Paige, Lucius Robinson , 1802-1896. (Main Author), History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 : with a genealogical register (Boston : H.O. Houghton, 1877), LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, 974.44/C1 D2p.

4Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage. ""Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 May 1726
Marriage Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas Kidder.".

[PFT:AQ]
[_Type] Marriage Record
[S:Titl] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
[S:Text] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 May 1726
Marriage Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas Kidder
[/PFT].".

Rachel DANFORTH

1Danforth Genealogy. By John J May, 1902; pp 38-39. "Samuel [son of Jonathan Danforth and Elizabeth Poulter), married Hannah, daughter of Simon Crosby; Their children were:
Rachel, b. 14 Aug 1703; died 15 Sep, 1764; married 10 May 1726, Thomas, son of Ephraim Kidder; he b. 3 Aug 1700; their children were:
Jonathan Kidder, b. 26 Mar 1728, married Mary Lambert
Francis Danforth Kidder, b. 15 July 1730; died 15 Sept 1748
Rachel Kidder, b. 22 May 1732; married John Hovey, of Malden
Alice Kidder, b. 18 May 1734
Abigail Kidder, b. 10 Jan 1736
Hannah Kidder, b. 19 Oct 1738; married Wm Bowers, of Chelmsford
Twins Dorothy Kidder, b. 19 Oct 1738.".

2"Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD1-VPY : 15 January 2020), Rachell Danforth, 1703.

3Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Kidder
Event Type: Death. ""Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Kidder
Event Type: Death
Death Date: 15 Sep 1764
Death Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas.".

[PFT:AQ]
[_Type] Death Record
[S:Titl] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Kidder
Event Type: Death
[S:Text] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Kidder
Event Type: Death
Death Date: 15 Sep 1764
Death Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas
[/PFT].".

4Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage. ""Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 May 1726
Marriage Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas Kidder.".

[PFT:AQ]
[_Type] Marriage Record
[S:Titl] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
[S:Text] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Rachel Danforth
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 May 1726
Marriage Place: Billerica, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Thomas Kidder
[/PFT].".

Thomas KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V4-LV5 : Fri Mar 08 00:49:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas Kidder and Ephrim Kidder, 3 August 1700.

3Paige, Lucius Robinson , 1802-1896. (Main Author), History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 : with a genealogical register (Boston : H.O. Houghton, 1877), LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, 974.44/C1 D2p.

4"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZH-Y42C : Sun Nov 24 19:02:01 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas Kidder and Susanna Phelps, 7 Jul 1767.

Susanna SNOW

1"Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV2-R43M : Wed Apr 02 05:12:48 UTC 2025), Entry for Susanna Snow Kidder.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZH-Y42C : Sun Nov 24 19:02:01 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas Kidder and Susanna Phelps, 7 Jul 1767.

Benjamin KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-XMG : Sat Mar 09 10:07:06 UTC 2024), Entry for ...amin Kidder and Ephraim Kidder, 3 August 1702.

Benjamin KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-XMG : Sat Mar 09 10:07:06 UTC 2024), Entry for ...amin Kidder and Ephraim Kidder, 3 August 1702.

3"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GL-B32 : Sun Mar 10 00:28:42 UTC 2024), Entry for Mary Kidder and Benjamin, 5 August 1755.

Judith POWERS

1"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GL-7DQ : Sun Mar 10 00:26:35 UTC 2024), Entry for Mary Kiddor and Benjamin Kidder, 5 August 1755.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GL-B32 : Sun Mar 10 00:28:42 UTC 2024), Entry for Mary Kidder and Benjamin, 5 August 1755.

Richard KIDDER

1Family Tree Maker, Broderbund, Massachusetts Vital Records 1600's-1800's, CDROM #220 (Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s
Copyright (c) 2000. Genealogy.com, LLC and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their re, Vital Records: Massachusetts, 1600s-1800s, Tim Farr, 756 N Monte Verde Circle, Washington, UT 84780, USA, 756 N Monte Verde Circle
Washington, UT, 84780, USA, 220.

2"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-XMR : Sat Mar 09 10:07:09 UTC 2024), Entry for ...ard Kidder and Ephraim Kidder, 10 May 1705.

3"Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-GWHG : Tue Apr 01 01:22:46 UTC 2025), Entry for Richard Kidder.

4"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY1-XXN : Sat Mar 09 20:21:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Kidder and Hannah Rich, 24 December 1728.

5"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY1-XXN : Sat Mar 09 20:21:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Kidder and Hannah Rich, 24 December 1728.

Hannah RICH

1findagrave.com. "Hannah Rich Kidder
Birth: Jul. 17, 1708
Mendon
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: 1803
Dudley
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Hannah (Rich) Kidder is my 6th Great Grandmother
Married Richard Kidder December 24th or 29th 1728 at Oxford Massachusetts
Possibly the daughter of Samuel Rich
Family links:
Spouse:
Richard Kidder (1705 - 1773)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Unknown
Created by: Ron Kinney
Record added: Nov 24, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 139204637.".

2"Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQX8-M97 : 5 January 2021), Hannah Rich, 1708.

3"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY1-XXN : Sat Mar 09 20:21:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Kidder and Hannah Rich, 24 December 1728.

4"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY1-XXN : Sat Mar 09 20:21:11 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Kidder and Hannah Rich, 24 December 1728.