James Tidd, of England

The Tidd's say that this James was the Son of John Tidd. And had Brothers John, James, Joseph & Samuel all from England.

They say that in his early days he had a falling out with his father, John. John had wanted him to be a Tailor, but James had it in his head to Pound Iron and took off in search of Deposits.

Colonial Iron mining

Iron mining in the United States began in 1608, when a ship returning from the Jamestown Colony in Virginia carried a load of iron ore back to England. The manufacture of iron from ore apparently began in 1622, in what is now Chesterfield County, Virginia, but was halted when Indians killed everyone in the establishment. John Winthrop, Jr. established an iron furnace at Braintree, Massachusetts, which started making iron in 1644, but closed when it ran out of nearby ore in 1647. A more successful effort was established at Saugus, Massachusetts.

Iron production in the 1700s was done with charcoal, of which American forests could provide a seemingly endless supply. Numerous small iron mines supplied iron furnaces scattered throughout the colonies in the 1700s. Bog iron ore common around the Chesapeake Bay fed numerous iron furnaces in Maryland and Virginia set up to export to Britain.

James spent his time following these limited supplies, into the back country of Massachusetts where is it said he met and Married. From there he moved into New York help open those pits, when these emptied. He heard the the Dutch in Jersey. That's where his son Jacob Settled on the 'Delaware River near the Minisink Valley. His other son David settled on the other side of the River Below Easton in Pennsylvania.

So it fairly safe to say that old James is buried ether on the East side or the West side of the Delaware, but now where's near Wolburn, MA.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 10 2016, 18:56:55 UTC
• http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Tidd.htm
  • Tidd, Howard H., A History of the Tidds of Ohio, unknown, unknown, 1958?. link
• http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I27197&tre...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=linda50&i...

comments

Possibly, but no proof of existence. http://www.branches-n-twigs.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4...

Disconnected from Sgt. John Tidd, of Woburn & Margaret Tidd Aug 2016, evidence to link the families invited.