(This narrative was prepared by Paul H. Kidd, Attorney at Law, Monroe, LA and is re-produced here in its entirety.)

Roger Kidd was the first Kidd in Virginia, according to a Muster of Inhabitants of the Parbehays and Maine taken on January 30, 1624.  Roger Kidd's age was listed as 24 when the muster was taken.  He had been listed a year before as those among the living on the ship George on February 16, 1623.  Both the George and the Main were ships owned by the Corporation of James City.

Whether Roger Kidd survived beyond 1624 is not known.  He was listed as a servant, and he may well have never disembarked onto the shores of Virginia.

Thomas Kidd came to Lancaster, Virginia on the south side of the Rappahanock River in 1648.  Thomas Kidd came as an indentured servant, his transportation and that of 22 others being supported by Richard Lee, Gentleman.  Thomas Kidd settled on 200 acres on Burnham's Creek in that part of Lancaster County, which eventually became a part of Middlesex County.  There were a number of land transactions involving Thomas Kidd between 1658 and 1674 by which Thomas Kidd acquired a 400 acre tract and a 200 acre tract in Middlesex County.  Sometime around 1669 Thomas Kidd married Jane Willis, the daughter of Thomas Willis, whose lands adjoined those of Thomas Kidd.

Thomas and Jane had five children: Thomas, born around 1670; Elizabeth, born in 1672; William, born in 1675; Jane, born in 1677; and Mary, born around 1678.  Thomas Kidd died in 1680, leaving a will dated May 28, 1680, naming his wife and his five children.  The Kidds in Virginia were there to stay in Middlesex County for the next one hundred years.

There were other Kidds that came to Virginia during the last half of the seventeenth century.  Included in these Kidds was William, who was sponsored by William Harper on February 20, 1663.

The possibility exists that this William Kidd described above was the pirate who was ultimately hanged in London in 1701.  The basis for this possibility arises soley because Middlesex County was one of three places, the other two being New York City and Boston, to which the warrant for the arrest of William Kidd was sent.  While New York City and Boston could