Mary Kidder

  General Notes:

Birth Record: The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records,1692-1850, p. 276

Mary Patten, daughter of Nathaniell & Mary, b. 26 Mar 1735 ¹¹⁴⁵

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁶¹⁰
Nathaniel Patten was born in Billerica on 10 Sep 1707. He married Mary Kidder, who was the daughter of Enoch Kidder and Mary Haywood. On 7 Dec 1729, Nathaniel Patten, cooper, and Mary, his wife, conveyed land and a mill in Oxford to Joseph Reed, of Leicester.

Afterward, Nathaniel and Mary moved to Windham, Connecticut. Nathaniel finally moved to Stafford, Connecticut where he resided until his death on 25 Nov 1756. His widow (Mary Kidder) married Nathaniel Woodward after Nathaniel's death. She died on 30 Nov 1789 at the age of 88 years.

Their children were:

• Mary, born in Oxford on 10 Apr 1728, and died 21 Jun 1734


• Hannah, born 11 Nov 1729; married Nathan Pease on 24 Jan 1762. Nathan was born in Enfield, Connecticut, 18 Jan 1740


• Nathaniel, born 19 Mar 1729


• Mary, born 26 Mar 1735 in Windham, Connecticut; married Jonathan Torrey of Monson


• Sarah, born in 1744; married Dr. Robert Heaton (or Stanton) on 24 Dec 1767; and lived to be nearly 100 years old


• John, born in 1747


• William, born in 1752

Patten Genealogy, William Patten of Cambridge, 1635 and His Descendants, pp. 43-45.

Mary married Nathaniel Patten, son of Nathaniel Patten and Hannah Ross.¹⁶¹⁰ (Nathaniel Patten was born on 10 Sep 1707 in Billerica, Massachusetts, British American Colonies ¹⁶¹⁰ and died on 25 Nov 1756 in Stafford, Connecticut, British American Colonies ¹¹⁴⁵.)