Benjamin BELDEN

Male 1687 - 1741  (54 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Benjamin BELDEN was born on 13 Jan 1687 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (son of John BELDEN, Jr. and Dorothy WILLARD); died on 09 May 1741 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    A felt maker and tavern keeper.

    Benjamin married Anne CHURCHILL between 29 Jan 1713 and 1714 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Anne (daughter of Lieutenant Benjamin CHURCHILL and Mary ?) was born about 1682 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Benjamin BELDEN
    2. Charles BELDEN
    3. John BELDEN
    4. Ann BELDEN
    5. Mary BELDEN
    6. Prudence BELDEN

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John BELDEN, Jr. was born on 12 Jun 1658 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (son of John BELDEN and Lydia STANDISH); died on 10 Jan 1713/4 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: John Belding

    John married Dorothy WILLARD on 15 Jun 1682. Dorothy (daughter of Josiah WILLARD and Hannah HOSMER) was born about 1663 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Feb 1754 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Dorothy WILLARD was born about 1663 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (daughter of Josiah WILLARD and Hannah HOSMER); died on 28 Feb 1754 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    Children:
    1. Josiah BELDEN was born on 12 Feb 1682/3 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 05 Sep 1746 in Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    2. John BELDEN was born on 03 Dec 1685 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died before 24 Jun 1725 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    3. 1. Benjamin BELDEN was born on 13 Jan 1687 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 09 May 1741 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
    4. Lydia BELDEN was born on 09 Apr 1690 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 06 Apr 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    5. Hannah BELDEN was born on 12 Sep 1692 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 06 Nov 1771 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    6. Lydia BELDEN was born on 30 Nov 1694 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    7. Stephen BELDEN was born on 21 May 1697 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    8. Ezra BELDEN was born on 27 Nov 1699 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    9. Dorothy BELDEN was born on 11 May 1702 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 02 Jul 1704 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John BELDEN was born about 1634 (son of Richard BAILDON and Margaret ACKRENDEN); died on 27 Jun 1677 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn..

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: John Baildon
    • Name: John Belding
    • Birth: 1631, Norwalk, Fairfield, Conn.
    • Baptism: 08 Feb 1634, Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England

    Notes:

    John was admitted freeman in 1657 and enlisted as a trooper under Capt. John Mason. He was active in town affairs, a merchant and perhaps a tavern keeper, and when he died, at the early age of 46, he left an estate of oc911. He wrote his name John BELDEN.

    John married Lydia STANDISH on 24 Apr 1657. Lydia (daughter of Thomas STANDISH and UNKNOWN) was born about 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Lydia STANDISH was born about 1635 (daughter of Thomas STANDISH and UNKNOWN).

    Notes:

    Lydia is said to be the daughter of Thomas and Susanna Standish.

    Children:
    1. Jonathan BELDEN was born on 21 Jun 1660 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 06 Jul 1734 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    2. Margaret BELDEN was born on 29 Mar 1677 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 13 Dec 1747 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Old Burial Ground, Colchester, Connecticut.
    3. Ebenezer BELDEN was born on 08 Jan 1672/3 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 02 Nov 1739 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    4. Samuel BELDEN was born on 03 Jan 1665 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Dec 1738 in New London, New London County, Connecticut.
    5. Sara BELDEN was born on 31 Mar 1668 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    6. Joseph BELDEN was born on 23 Apr 1663 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 07 Dec 1724 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    7. Daniel BELDEN was born on 12 Oct 1670 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died about 1696 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    8. Lydia BELDEN was born in Mar 1675 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 6 Jan 1759 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut; was buried in Westchester Cemetery, Westchester, New London Co., Connecticut.
    9. 2. John BELDEN, Jr. was born on 12 Jun 1658 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 10 Jan 1713/4 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

  3. 6.  Josiah WILLARD was born in 1635 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (son of Major Simon WILLARD and Mary SHARPE); died in Jul 1674 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: 23 Jul 1674, Possessions inventoried
    • Fact: 03 Sep 1674, Court record will

    Josiah married Hannah HOSMER on 20 Mar 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Hannah HOSMER

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Thomas Hosmer

    Children:
    1. Samuel WILLARD was born on 19 Sep 1658 in Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1713/4.
    2. Josiah WILLARD was born on 13 Mar 1660 in Hartford, Connecticut.
    3. 3. Dorothy WILLARD was born about 1663 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Feb 1754 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    4. Simon WILLARD died on 08 Jan 1726.
    5. Stephen WILLARD was born in 1667/8 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Jul 1741.
    6. Thomas WILLARD
    7. John WILLARD
    8. Hannah WILLARD was born in 1674 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 04 Jan 1750 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Hammonassett Cemetery, Madison, New Haven Co., Connecticut.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Richard BAILDON was born about 1598 in Kippax, England (son of Lawrence BELDON and ? UNKNOWN); died in Aug 1655 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Richard Beldon
    • Fact: Name spelled Belden, Bayldon and Belding

    Notes:

    On a list of those taking the oath of allegiance,March 26, 1913, is this entry: "Richard Bayldon aged 19 years born at Kippax in Comm. Ebor, (i.e., Count of York) intending to pass over for Bredaugh (Breda) to be a soldier under Capen Blundell." His name is signed Richard BAYLDONN with an extra n and a flourish. It is of little importance that his age is given inaccurately; the record shows his spelling of the name and his taste for adventure. He was involved in controversies over the settling of his father's estate in 1624, after which he disappears from English records. His identification with the man who is found at Wethersfield in 1641 rests upon these considerations. Richard BAYLDON was a younger son by a second wife in a large family of only moderate wealth. He had his fortune to make. Opportunities were not plentiful in England and if he had failed to win a competence after years of effort, if his wife had died and his home ties were broken, and if his sympathies were strongly with the Puritan party, it was quite natural that he should take his sons and set out for American, as others ere doing all around him. The emigrant seems to have been such a man. His name upon his arrival and presumably at his direction is spelled Richard BAYLDEN. It was an uncommon name borne as far as appears by no other family in England. The age of his sons and other circumstances would indicate that he was in the neighborhood of 50 years old. His eldest son bore the name of the deceased brother William. Those were days of careless pronunciation and phonetic spelling, and the name is soon spelled in various ways on the records and by members of the family, BELDEN and BELDING predominating. Richard is found acquiring and disposing of land and duly taking his part in the affairs of the new community until his death in 1655, when he left his family a considerable landed estate. The rapier, or gentlemen's sword, mentioned among his effects, was a weapon for which he could have found small use in Wethersfield and was doubtless a relic of his early days.

    Richard married Margaret ACKRENDEN on 09 Dec 1622 in Kippax, Yorkshire, England. Margaret was born between 1591 and 1602 in Yorkshire Co., England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Margaret ACKRENDEN was born between 1591 and 1602 in Yorkshire Co., England.
    Children:
    1. Susan BELDEN was born in 1623.
    2. Samuel BELDEN was born in 1632; died on 03 Jan 1713 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
    3. Sara BELDEN was born in 1630 in Woodsworth, Yorks, England.
    4. 4. John BELDEN was born about 1634; died on 27 Jun 1677 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn..
    5. Mary BELDEN was born in 1625.
    6. Grace BELDEN was born in 1627.

  3. 10.  Thomas STANDISH was born about 1612 in England; died on 05 Dec 1692 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

    Thomas married UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  UNKNOWN
    Children:
    1. 5. Lydia STANDISH was born about 1635.

  5. 12.  Major Simon WILLARD was christened on 7 Apr 1605 in Horsmonden, Kent, England (son of Richard WILLARD and Margery ?); died on 24 Apr 1676 in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

    Notes:

    Excerpt from genealogy.com: Connecticut, 1600-1800s Local Families and Histories, History of Wethersfield - He and wife came, May 1634, to Boston Mass., in company with his sister Margery and her husband Capt. Doler Davis, and soon became known as a prosperous merchant in Cambridge. In the fall of 1635, he with Rev. Peter Bulkeley, DD, led the movement which resulted in the settlement of Concord. He was Concord's first dep. to the Gen. Ct., 1636, and was re-elected every subsequent yr. until 1654, with three exceptions. He was, for 22 yrs. a memb. of Curt of Assistants, 1654 to death; figured prominently with Rev. John Eliot in settlement with the Inds.; in 1653 was elected Sgrt. Maj. of the Middlesex Co. Troops and played an important part in King Philip's War; rem. to Lancaster, 1659; Groton, 1671-2 where he held many town offices. He d. 24 apr 1676, in Charlestown, Mass.

    Excerpt from "WILLARD-HOSMER": To America in 1634. Lived at Cambridge, Middlesec Co., Mass. 1634, Concord 1635, Lancaster 1660, Groton 1672, Salem 1676. Major WILLARD's military career is detailed in Soldiers in King Philip's War, by George M. Bodge (Leominster, MA: 1896), pages 120-126. Simon was Clerk of Writs at Concord, MA for 19 years, and also served as Surveyor of Arms. It was whle he lived at Concord that he was promoted to major in 1653. When past age 70 he led 47 men thirty miles to route the Indians from an attack on Brookfield, MA. Married first in England; second about 1643, Concord, MA to Elizabeth Dunster (d. about 1643) ,daughter of Henry Dunster (bur. Sep 16, 1646, Bury, Lancaster) and Isabel Kaye; and third about 1645 Mary Dunster (b. Dec 15, 1630, Bury, Lancaster; d. Dec 28, 1715, Sudbury,MA) cousin of Elizabeth and daughter of Robert Dunster and mary Gerrett. Simon had no children by Elizabeth and his ten youngest were by his third marriage. As the widow of Maj. Willard, Mary married second, on Jul 19, 1680, Dea. Joseph NOYES. Simon's first marriage was recorded at marden, Kent as: Simon Willard & Mary Sharpe were married the 13 day (Oct. 1638).

    Simon married Mary SHARPE. Mary was christened on 16 Oct 1614 in Horsmonden, Kent, England; died between 1642 and 1643 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Mary SHARPE was christened on 16 Oct 1614 in Horsmonden, Kent, England; died between 1642 and 1643 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Henry Sharpe and Jane Feylde
    • Baptism: 16 Oct 1614, Horsmonden, Kent, England

    Children:
    1. Elizabeth WILLARD died in infancy.
    2. 6. Josiah WILLARD was born in 1635 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died in Jul 1674 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
    3. Elizabeth WILLARD was born on 08 Apr 1635 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 29 Aug 1690 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
    4. Dorothy WILLARD was born in 1638; died in 1638 in Infancy.
    5. Rev Samuel WILLARD was born on 31 Jan 1639/40 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 12 Sep 1707 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
    6. Sarah WILLARD was born on 27 Jun 1642 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 22 Jan 1677/8.
    7. Abovehope WILLARD was born on 30 Oct 1646 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 26 Dec 1663 in Lancaster, Worcester Co., Massachuetts.