Samuel COOPER

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• Fact: Son of Samuel Cooper and Hannah Hastings
• Baptism: 17 Jan 1696, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel married Sarah KIDDER on 29 Mar 1720 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of Samuel KIDDER and Sarah GRIGGS) was born on 17 Aug 1690 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Excerpt from "A Genealogy of The Kidder Family": Samuel Kidder appears to have lived in his youth with an uncle, Francis Moore, from whom he is said to have acquired by gift the Moore mansion house and farm in Cambridge, erected if tradition is to be trusted,by James Moore in 1660. It stood near the corner of Main and Spruce streets, then Kidder's Lane about opposite Cedar street. He owned a mill for the manufacture of malt in which industry he met with marked success. He served for years as a deacon in the church at Cambridge, and was prominent in town affairs. At one time he was "Viewer of Fences, " and 13 Apr. 1693 was "one of a committee to agree with a shepherd to keep the flock for this present year, to take care concerning the same, etc. and have ye flock fed in such place as ye selectmen shall appoint". He served as selectman from 1716 to 1721, and held other town offices. He left an estate of L1,356.

Samuel married Sarah GRIGGS on 23 Oct 1689 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of John GRIGGS and Mary PATTEN) was born in 1666; died on 15 Nov 1738 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 09 Aug 1666, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Excerpt from "A Genealogy of The Kidder Family": Ensign James Kidder, the progenitor of practically all persons in the United States who bear his surname, believed to have been born at East Grinstead, Sussex, England, about 1626; died at Billerica, Middlesex County, Mass., 16 Apr. 1676, "aged fify" according to contemporary records. He married at Cambridge, Mass., presumably late in 1649 or early in 1650, Anna Moore of that place, born in England about 1630; died at Billerica in 1691, daughter of Elder Francis and Katherine Moore. She married secondly at Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Mass., 17 Mar. 1684/1685, William Underwood of that town.
James Kidder's probable birthplace, East Grinstead, is a small town about thirty miles from London, and in the near vicinity of Maresfield, ancient seat of the Kidder family. Nothing is known of his early years nor of the reasons which prompted his leaving the home of his fathers to settle in New England where he is believed to have arrived about 1649, shortly before his marriage to Anna Moore.........
That Ensign Kidder was a man of high standing in the community in which he lived is evident from the fact that he married the daughter of so prominent and prosperous a man as Elder Francis Moore of Cambridge, as well as from his varied activities there and in Billerica, where he filled civil and military positions of responsibility, and where he was active in church affairs.
He died leaving an estate of about three hundred and seventy pounds, not a large one measured by present standards of wealth, but a comfortable one for the period in which he lived...

Excerpt from "A History of the Kidder Family": In 1675, when King Philip's war took place, he was in the public service, and kept guard over the small trie of Indians at Wameset, now forming part of Lowell,and soon after was appointed to the command of a garrison-house, which contained seven families, including his own and that of his son James. He died, April 16th, 1676, in the midst of the war, aged about 50, it has been suggested from disease caued by his exposure in this war, which was the most trying time ever seen in New England......"Thus passed away the patriarch of the family in this country; and though no stone marks the spot or perpetuates his memory, the name seems destined to live through all coming time, as his descendants,now numbering some Thousands, are spread over this broad land, from the Penobscot to the shores of the Pacific, and from Canada to Louisiana," representing nearly every occupation and profession, in many of which the name has gained considerable prominence. His descendants have fought in all the wars of the Union, in all grades from the private to the colonel, and in the last war the name was largely and honorably represented both on land and sea.

James married Anna MOORE about 1651 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Anna (daughter of Francis MOORE and Katherine ?) was born about 1630 in England; died in 1691 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 1630, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

John married Mary PATTEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]