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From: "BBFFRRPP" <>
Subject: KIDDER / COFFIN on Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, 1700's/1800's
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:49:27 -0400

Hello,

I've been looking at the "KIDDER book" this week and was reminded
of Capt.
Benjamin KIDDER of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. I'd like to
post the
information on him in case it will help someone's research:

#152 Capt. Benjamin KIDDER (Stephen, Isaac, Stephen, James)
born at Nantucket, Mass., 15 Dec. 1768; died at Edgartown, Dukes Co.,
Mass., 4 Nov. 1853, aged 85 years. He married (int. Nantucket,
Mass., 5
May 1798) Mary COFFIN, born at Nantucket, 18 Jan. 1772; died at
Edgartown, 24 June 1856, aged 84 years, daughter of Peter and Judith
(PINKHAM) (GARDNER) COFFIN.

At the close of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin KIDDER, then but a
lady of
fourteen years, sailed on a whaling voyage and for more than a
score of
years followed the sea, in time becoming a Captain. He
commanded the
whaling ship "Globe" at the time of the famous mutiny in 1804,
and with
him were his sons, Peter Coffin and Benjamin. Later in the year
he left
Nantucket, which for many years he had made his home, and moved to
Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where he purchased a farm and became a
prosperous farmer.

Children, born at Edgartown:
i. Peter Coffin (KIDDER), unm. A member of the crew of the whaler
"Globe" of which his father was captain, at the time of the famous
mutiny.
He was finally lost overboard from a whaling ship on which he served.
ii. Stephen (KIDDER), b. 15 July 1805
iii. Benjamin (KIDDER), b. in 1808; d. unm. at Vineyard Haven,
Mass., 5
June 1873.
iv. Charles (KIDDER), b. 23 Nov. 1812.
v. Lydia Gardner (KIDDER), b. 18 Sept. 1814; d. at Edgartown,
in Feb.
1883;
m. there 12 oct. 1837, Capt. Thomas A. NORTON of that
place. Children
(surname NORTON): 1. Thomas Morgan, 2. Mary Anna, 3. Walter
Kidder.

(Further information on Stephen and Charles in Kidder book.)

FYI: The following is what is said about Benjamin's father, Stephen
KIDDER "of Nantucket, MA" ..

#64 Stephen KIDDER, born at Charlestown, Mass., baptized there 25
Oct.
1747; died on shipboard at New York in 1775/76. He married at
Nantucket, 1 Mar. 1767, Eunice KNOWLES, of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Stephen KIDDER was a shipmaster. He was captured by the British
at the
beginning of the Revolutionary War and died of smallpox on a
prison ship in
New York harbor.
Children, born at Nantucket:

(Benjamin, Elizabeth "Betsy" (marr. Benjamin RAYMOND), Sally (marr.
Jeffrey DELANO), Stephen)


From: "Descendants of Ensign James KIDDER (1626-1676) of
Cambridge and
Billerica, MA ....." published by the NEHGS in 1941.


Betty (near Lowell, MA)




"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children;
one is roots, the other is wings."

Hodding Carter, Jr.




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Loving kindness, a warm heart, and the stretched out hand of
tolerance!"

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

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