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The will of Thomas Kidd, husband of Alice Trigg, is very interesting in regard to the property question. William Kidd died on April 28, 1727. Thomas Kidd wrote his will a week after his brother, William, had died. Thomas Kidd's will left the 400 acres upon which his brother, William, formerly lived to his (Thomas') son William. Did this mean that William had lived on the property until his death or that William had vacated the land prior to his death? Because the will had only recently been drafted, one would think that William Kidd lived there until his death.
The ownership of the 400 acres was litigated in the Middlesex Court in the matter styled Kidd v. Kidd. That litigation in 1740 involved the will of the original Thomas, dated May 28, 1680, the patent received by William Kidd on October 21, 1687, and the second Thomas' will dated May 6, 1727.
The Thomas Kidd - Alice Trigg Kidd heirs ended up with all of the property, and they remained in Middlesex County. The William Kidd - Margaret Kidd heirs ended up with no property; most of these heirs left Middlesex County following the death of their parents in 1727.
At this juncture, the Thomas Kidd - Alice Trigg Kidd heirs will no longer be subject of this narrative because the writer of same traces his ancestors from the William and Margaret Kidd stem. To the extent that Thomas and Alice Kidd heirs need to be distinguished from heirs of William and Margaret Kidd, they will be listed in the approximate stem in the appendix of this narrative.
Sojourning in Kind and Queen County with the Martins and the Whites
The melding of the William and Margaret Kidd heirs with the Martin and White lines began in King and Queen County. When William and Margaret Kidd died in 1727, Robert was not quite 24 years old; Moses was just barely 20; John was 19; Dirill was 16; Aaron was 13; James was 11 on the day his mother died; and Benjamin was under 10. The records do not reflect whether the oldest, Robert, stayed in Middlesex County, left, or even survived his mother's and father's death. Nothing appears in Middlesex County following Robert's birth, nor for that matter in the state of Virginia. Moses married Dorothy _____ in Middlesex County, and they had a daughter, Sarah, born there on May 17, 1731. Chances are that the
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