Kidder, Joseph (1741-1818)

Name:

Kidder, Joseph (1741-1818)

Other Names:

Reverend Joseph Kidder

Born:

11/18/1741

Birthplace:

Billerica, MA

Died:

09/06/1818

Death Location:

Nashua, NH

Residence:

Billerica, MA
Dunstable, NH 1766-1818

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clergyman, First Congregational Church, Dunstable, 1766-1813

Father:

Kidder, Enoch (Captain)

Mother:

Hunt, Sarah

Spouse:

Married Mary White Badger (1738-1835), widow of Nathaniel Badger, 1767

Children:

Joseph, born 1769; died 1811
Nathaniel, born 1771
Elizabeth, born 1775; died 1846, Terre Haute, In; m. Elijah Chamberlain.
Sarah, born 1777; died 1831; m. William Farwell Boynton.
Ruth, born 1779; died 1819; unmarried.

Notes:

Joseph Kidder was the 6th minister of what is now the First Congregational Church in Nashua, N.H., was born in Billerica, MA, on Nov. 18, 1741, a son of Captain Enoch and Sarah (Hunt) Kidder" Rev. Kidder settled in Dunstable (now Nashua), NH, in 1766. The following year he married Mary (White) Badger (1738-1835) of Haverhill, MA. "After the Revolution his church was troubled by Baptists, but according to a neighbor he 'acted wisely and like a Hero' in dealing with them. Dismissed 'for inability' on June 15, 1796, he sued his parish for his back pay, but continued to preach and exercise his pastoral function. Because of his failing health, a 'colleague' was ordained on Nov. 3, 1814. He died of a paralytic stroke on Sept. 6, 1818.

Morgan H. Stafford, A Genealogy of the Kidder Family Comprising the Descendants in the Male Line of Ensign John Kidder, 1626-1676: Of Cambridge and Billerica in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1941), 60-61.

Franklin B. Dexter, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. Volume III.
May, 1763-July, 1778. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1903), 72-73.

Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley's Harvard Graduates Volume XVI 1764-1767 Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College ... w/ Bibliographical and Other Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972), 68-69.

Evergreen Cemetery, Nashua, NH