Kidd, James

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Battle:Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Ship/Arrival:Unity, Dec 1650
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Published: 24 Aug 2018, Updated: 15 Feb 2019
Page contributors: Dr. Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust

James Kid, Kidd, Skid

IMPORTANT UPDATE! (July 2018)
According to, Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018), on page 250, James is categorized as:

Probable [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]

Kidd/Skid, James. Residences: Dover, Exeter NH. Appears: 1656. D.bef.1712. Received land grant at Dover at the same time as other Scots, and is later associated with them. [Exiles; DR; BCS]

For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices

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First Generation in the New World

1. JAMES KIDD, was born possibly in Scotland and died probably in New Hampshire before 1712.

Biographical Notes:
1. A James Kid is in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire in 1648. 1 This date would be too early for Dunbar.
2. A James Kid is in Norfolk Massachusetts in 1677 in an “Allegiance Oath” in the records.2

Sources and Notes:

Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company.
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB532/i/14497/456/264839311

Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Census Substitutes, 1630-1788, 1840, 1890 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. From records supplied by Ancestry.com)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB509/rd/13684/8671/242326910

  1. New Hampshire: Miscellaneous Censuses and Substitutes, 1640-1890 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. From records supplied by Ancestry.com)
    https://www.americanancestors.org/DB507/rd/13679/10174/242296660 [↩]
  2. Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Census Substitutes, 1630-1788, 1840, 1890 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. From records supplied by Ancestry.com)
    https://www.americanancestors.org/DB509/rd/13684/8671/242326910 [↩]