kith and kin

And ſyne ſhe kiſſd his bluidy cheik And ſyne his bluidy chin: O better I loe my Gill Morice Than a' my kith and kin! "Away, away, ze ill woman, And an il deith mait ze dee: Gin I had kend he'd bin zour ſon, He'd neir bin flain for mee."

1796, Scotish Songs In Two Volumes, →OL, page 164

"What's that to me, boy?" she interrupted with a stern, hard manner, which Joe hitherto had had no idea she could assume. "Didn't her kith and kin rob thee, beat thee, starve thee, and force thee to run away ? Is she not the child of her mother, and what could I do with one trained in the wickedness of vagrant ways?"

1800, Silverpen, The Little Museum Keepers, Willam and Robert Chambers, →OL, page 119

It well may be because I have been so lonelv, but to mv thinking there can be no love, no tie, like love and tie of kith and kin.

1868, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Old Sir Douglas, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 161

Yet, with all this, in two or three days he grew dull, and would fain mix with his kith and kin once more.

1869, Lucy Aikin, Evenings at home [by J. Aikin and A.L. Barbauld] in words of one syllable by Mary Godolphin, page 40

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.

1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2