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Thomas Kidd

Male 1625 - 1680  (55 years)Deceased


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  • Name Thomas Kidd 
    Birth 1625  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Emigration 1648  England to York/Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Grant 31 Mar 1653  Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Witness 1657  Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Grant 7 Apr 1664  Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death May 1680  Middlesex County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Will of Thomas Kidd May 28, 1680;

      Middlesex County, Virginia In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Kid of Rapahanack River in the county of Middlesex being sick of body butt in perfect health of memory praised be to God for it att the making of this my Will and Testament.

      First I bequeath my soule to God my maker, that gave it to me and my body the ground.; to bee burried in a decent manor.

      Second my will and pleasure is that my son Thomas Kid shall have my dwelling house & plantation after his mothers decease with foe hundred and fifty acors of land ajoying theirto;

      Lirkewise my will and pleasure is, that noe parte nor parcell of the estate shall bee alienated or disposed of; but it shall remaine to him and his heires lawfully begotten or to my sonne William or his heires lawfully begotten and in case of mortallity that niither of my sonns enjoy it; then the whole tract of land, that is now undivided between my sonns, to be equally devided between my toe datterss, Elizabeth and Jane,

      further my will and pleasure is that my sonne William Kid have my other plantation with two hundred acores theirto ajoining;

      further my will is that my son William have the first increase of the mare called gemo and then she and her increase be equally devided between my three children, William, Elizabeth & Jane, at their coming of age;

      further my will and pleasure is that my sonn Thomas; have that horse colte that sires one my other mare called bonny;

      further my will is that my datter Elizabeth have a cow called brandy, with hur increase and my sonn William to have one yearline heafer called by the name of brandy's heafer with her increase,

      further I will and bequeath to my wife Jane Kidd all the rest of my estate and my wife Jane Kid bee whole executrixe and ? adminisstrative and after my wife's decease if he be alive, I appointe my sonn Thomas Kid to be gardian to the rest of my children; and Richard Willis and John Willis to be oversseres.

      All the aforesd articles is the will and desire of me Thomas Kid as witness my hand and seale this 28th day of May 1680.Testes; JOHN WILLIS (his X mark) Tho Kid (signed) Edward Docrose
    Notes 
    • In reference to Thomas Kidd's parentage and birth place:

      The date and place of birth for Thomas is entirely hypothetical, and NOT proven at this time. Sandra Kidd, coordinator of the Kidd Y-DNA Project tracked down a later Kidd who emigrated from Soham, England to the US, and persuaded him to participate in the Kidd DNA Project, and he did not match any of the VA Kidds.

      Sandra writes (April 19, 2011):

      "Of course, one Y-DNA test does not mean that anything is definite. But when Max's results came in, I delved back into the Ken Smallbone research that had been commissioned by a man named Rod Harless, whose wife is a Kidd from West Virginia.

      I had both copies of Smallbone's report and copies of Rod's letters to him. As I read it more closely, I realized that Rod had picked Soham as a point of origin for Thomas Kidd primarily because there were IGI entries for a Thomas Kidd of about the right age to be Thomas of Middlesex Co VA (IGI is a set of records collected by the Mormon Church, you may know of these).

      "I was able to track Rod down and ask him what led him to choose this particular Thomas Kidd. The answer: nothing more than a hunch!

      He picked this Thomas, and then commissioned Ken Smallbone to research whether the Thomas Kidd of Soham Parish, born ca 1625/6 to William Kidd and Elizabeth Nethercoat, married and/or died in Soham.

      Smallbone searched the parish registers (which evidently is a daunting task) and concluded that there was no marriage or death or will for this particular Thomas Kidd, which means he could have left the area. But even if he did leave the area, he could have gone anywhere--Cambridge, London, etc. And more importantly, there is nothing to connect the Thomas of Soham with the Thomas of Middlesex Co VA. and there are a dozen of more Thomas Kidds in the IGI born around this same time--so what led Rod to pick this one, I still do not know.

      "This information, needless to say, was a bit sobering--because by this time (2006), the Soham Parish origins had been broadcast far and wide--and I was one of the people helping to broadcast them. It has proven impossible to retract--but I fear there is nothing to support it. I keep looking for another Y-DNA candidate, but I have not yet found one with Soham roots.

      "The only possible tantalizing clue--which may or may not have relevance--is that the first record created for Thomas Kidd in then York Co VA (1646) is for the will of a Peter Deare or Death--though the name is more likely Deare. In Soham, there is one marriage for a Margaret Deare to a William Kidd. Could the Deare surname be a connection? I really do not know.

      "As a footnote to this tale, I did also manage to contact Ken Smallbone to see if he would pick up the Thomas Kidd research to try to determine if anyone did emigrate to America from the line, or if this Deare-Kidd connection had relevance. He was by then in the main retired, and turned down my offer to hire him."

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      In 1648 William Kidd came as an indentured servant sponsored by Richard Lee. He settled on 200 acres on the Burham Creek in Lancaster Co Va on the south side of the Rappahannock River, which became part of Middlesex Co. There were a number of land transactions involving Thomas Kidd between 1658 and 1674. By 1674 Thomas had acquired a 400 acre tract and a 200 acre tract in Middlesex Co.

      Many researchers believe Thomas Kidd married Jane Willis, daughter of Thomas Willis, whose lands adjoined those of Thomas Kidd. Her last name hasn't been proven
    Person ID P5776  Burress | My Ancestors

    Wife Jane
              b. 1625, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. After 1685, Middlesex County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage 1668  Lancaster County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 2 sons, 2 daughters and 1 person of an unknown gender 
    Family ID F1843  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1625 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmigration - 1648 - England to York/Lancaster County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsGrant - Thomas Kidd, Grantee; Description: 200 acres on the south side of Rappahannock River and on the north west side of a south west branch of Burnhams Creek. - 31 Mar 1653 - Lancaster County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsWitness - Thomas Kidd appears is the Lancaster Order Book, pg 20, as witness to Constable John Woodles and Thomas Conner's deed. Middlesex County was created from Lancaster County and Thomas Kidd was a member of the Christ Church, where the birth of all his children appear, except for the oldest, Thomas Jr, who may have been a son from an earlier marriage. - 1657 - Lancaster County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsGrant - Thomas Kidd, grantee; Description: 194 acres at the head of Burnhams Creek als Sunderland?s Creek; upon a branch of Peanketank Swamp called White Oak Branch. - 7 Apr 1664 - Lancaster County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1668 - Lancaster County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - May 1680 - Middlesex County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
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