The Abenaki Indians

Frederic Kidder (April 16, 1804 - December 19, 1885) was an American author and antiquarian. He was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, was mainly self-educated, and engaged in various business ventures in Boston and New York. He made special researches into the history of early New England times and families. He wrote:The History of New Ipswich, a New Hampshire Town (1852), The Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell (1865), Military Operations in Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia during the Revolution (1867), History of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution (1868), and History of the Boston Massacre (1870).