Location of Widget Preferences/Data Files

I've got the "Classic Notepad" widget installed to track job numbers, but after transferring everything to a newer machine, the widget no longer displays the content. I'd like to recover this list, as I (stupidly) don't have it anywhere else, by seeing if I can extract the info from the data files generated by this widget. Can't find any information on the location of those files.
Where are the data files for widgets located in 10.4.11?
Thanks!
gary

Thanks for the reply. I located the preferences file, which didn't have my data. But you gave me a great clue -- so I looked in the user/library and found a folder which contained the text file and my data! Joy joy and more joy!
I've successfully recovered two years worth of job numbers. Thank you!
gary

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