Individual Details

Family history relates that Nathan "spent some time in Saint John and was known as a good fighter. No one would go up against him that knew him." By 1851 he was farming 14-1/2 acres of lot 8 in the Parish of Hampton. On 27 May 1858 Nathan (described as a "carpenter") sold this farm and by 1861 had moved to New Canaan, where he farmed with his nephews Ebenezer and Thomas Rider. In 1863 'Mary Catherine Rider' - presumably Nathan's wife - purchased lot 28 from Esther Rider [Fam#11]. His home, according to Wilmont Brown, was "next to where Reuben Rider lived, and was later known as the Bliss Corey place." According to the 1864 Historical Map, this was on the south side of Canaan River, on Perry Road.

In 1871 Nathan Ryder was chosen deacon of the newly founded Albert Baptist Church, Fredericton Road NB, his son Chipman elected a clerk. By 1874 "Nathan Ryder is spoken of as clerk" of the same church.

Nathan and Mary Ryder are buried in the Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery, New Canaan NB, with several of their children. There is a most affecting line of homemade headstones to them and their children, the stones taken from the bottom of the Canaan River, where they had been smoothed and lossened. Descendants have raised a granite monument to them near the sandstone graves.

References: Dana Ryder; Nellie Rider; Fremont Rider; Rowland Corey ; NBStudholm census 1851, Havelock 1861, 1871, 1881; Inscriptions New Canaan Methodist Cemetery; NBHampton census 1851; NBSalisbury census 1861; LRIS Kings; Rev JW Brown, An Historical Sketch of the Early Settlement of New Canaan and the Histories of the New Canaan, Havelock, and Albert Baptist Churches, n.d; D.F. Johnson, Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers, B. Wood-Hall, Early Marriages Records of New Brunswick 1986; 1864 map of Havelock Parish.

Birth	17 Jan 1817	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick
Marriage	11 Jun 1839	Saint John, City of Saint John Parish, Saint John County, New Brunswick - MARY CATHERINE TOLSON
Death	1896	New Canaan, Brunswick Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick
Burial		Old Methodist Cemetery, New Canaan, Queens County, New Brunswick
Occupation		Farmer

Spouse	MARY CATHERINE TOLSON (1822 - 1906)
Child	JAMES ALEXANDER RYDER (1840 - )
Child	LUCINDA RYDER (1842 - 1860)
Child	WILLIAM FREDERICK RYDER (1844 - 1916)
Child	CHARLES MILES RYDER (1847 - 1864)
Child	JOSEPH CHIPMAN RYDER (1850 - 1883)
Child	ELIZABETH AMANDA RYDER (1852 - )
Child	DAVID HART RYDER (1855 - 1879)
Child	CHARLES ERMINE RYDER (1856 - 1940)
Child	NATHAN E. (ARMAN?) RYDER (1857 - )
Child	THOMAS HANFORD RYDER (1858 - 1887)
Child	MARY CATHERINE RYDER (1861 - )

Father	EBENEZER RIDER (1771 - 1853)
Mother	ANN GOLDSMITH (1777 - 1849)
Sibling	JOHN RIDER (1794 - 1866)
Sibling	STEPHEN RIDER (1798 - 1861)
Sibling	MARY RIDER (1798 - 1845)
Sibling	EBENEZER RIDER (1800 - 1849)
Sibling	JAMES RIDER (1802 - )
Sibling	ELIZABETH RIDER (1804 - 1888)
Sibling	ANN R. RIDER (1806 - )
Sibling	MERCY R. RIDER (1808 - 1820)
Sibling	HENRY RIDER (1810 - 1892)
Sibling	REUBEN RIDER (1812 - 1860)
Sibling	JOSEPH CRANDALL RIDER (1814 - 1849)
Sibling	CAROLINE RIDER (1818 - )
Sibling	BENJAMIN RUFUS RIDER (1823 - 1894)