Person:Miriam Kidder (1)

Name^[3]	Miriam Kidder
Alt Name^[4]	Lois Kidder
Gender	Female
Christening^[1]	8 May 1737	Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Bef 1763	Based on birth of eldest known child to Elijah Hills (add)
Death^[2]	14 Aug 1822	Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

References

↑ Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1906)
p. 78.

KIDDER, Mirriam, d. Joseph and Hannah, bap. May 8, 1737. CR
↑ Find A Grave: Hills Farms Cemetery, Hudson, NH, in Find A Grave
Merriam Kidder Hills.

IN
memory of Mrs.
Merriam, wife of
Ens. Elijah Hills,
who died
Aug. 14, 1822,
AEt. 85.
[Birth about 1737.]
↑ Kidder, Frank Eugene. A history of the Kidder family from A. D. 1320-1676: including the biography of our emigrant ancestor, James Kidder, also a genealogy of his descendants through his son John Kidder, who settled in Chelmsford, Mass., about 1681. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1940)
p. 23.

Children of Joseph Kidder and Hannah Proctor: Lois [sic, see note ], m. Elijah Hill, of Nottingham.
↑ The History of the Kidder Family names her Lois, but no record of her that has been found actually uses that name. The baptism, the gravestone, and the births of all her children name her Miriam. It appears from comments in the text, i.e., "There is a tradition in the family that there were two other sons and another daughter, but nothing is known about them, not even their names", that Kidder was at least partially relying on the memory of a family member, who knows how distantly related, or how long after the fact.