Person · 1724 - 1794

Samuel Kidder

Born	1724-10-19 Billerica, MA
Died	1794-02-18 Billerica, MA
Select Board
In Office	1765 - 1767 1782 - 1785
Father	Enoch Kidder II
Mother	Sarah Hunt
Spouses	Abigail Hill (m. 1749-04-13 )
Children	John (b. 1762-06-22)

Samuel Kidder (1724 to 1794) was a Billerica farmer, a selectman for five years in the 1760s and 1780s, and in the first weeks of the Revolution one of the two men the town charged with supplying blankets to its soldiers. He was born on October 19, 1724, the son of Enoch Kidder II and Sarah Kidder, and a great-grandson of Ensign James Kidder, one of the first settlers.

On April 13, 1749, he married Abigail Hill, born in 1727, the only child named in Hazens register of Samuel Hill, who had died that January, and a granddaughter of the elder Samuel Hill, whose homestead included the farmhouse now standing at 187 Concord Road. That house, the Samuel Hill House, was for a time known as the Samuel Kidder place. Samuel and Abigail Kidder had nine children: Samuel (1749/50), who died on December 17, 1780, aged 30; Sarah (1752); Mary (1754), who died in 1772; Enoch (1756); Abigail (1759), who married Timothy Whiting in 1781; John (1762); Rachel (1764), who died in 1766; Alice (1767), who married Dr. Robert Smith of Durham, New Hampshire, in 1790; and Francis (1769), who died in 1796.

He was on the ministers rate of 1755 in the west part of the town, and was elected a selectman in 1765 and 1766. On May 15, 1775, less than four weeks after Lexington and Concord, the town "Chose Messurs Samuel Kidder & Isaac Foster as a Comt^ee to provide Blanketts for those persons in this town that have Inlisted into the provincial service." After the war he served again as a selectman from 1782 to 1784.

Samuel Kidder died on February 18, 1794, aged 69, and was buried in the Old South Burying Ground. Abigail survived him by nine years and died in October 1803, aged 76.

Samuel Kidder

Samuel Kidder

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