Silas BELDEN

Notes:

Excerpt from "connecticut Puritan Settlers": While Silas continued at Wethersfield, he was highly respected and employed in public business. He sold his estate, and expected to remove with his family to Canaan, Conn., in the spring of 1741, where he purchased a large tract of land. He also purchased lands in Dutchess county, New York, and Berkshire county, Mass., for the purposes of setling his children on his new lands. In the autumn of 1741, he returned to Wethersfield, to close his concers there, and remove his family to Canaan. He was seized with a malignant dysentery, while a Wethesfield, and died.

Silas married Abigail ROBBINS on 30 Nov 1716. Abigail was born about 1697 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 16 Feb 1783 in Dutchess, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jonathan BELDEN was born on 16 Nov 1737 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 09 Jan 1778 in Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut; was buried in Grassy Hills Cemetery, Falls Village, Connecticut.
2. Lydia BELDEN was born on 03 Mar 1730 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Wright Line": Jonathan Belding/Belden, Deacon, Lt. in Queen's Anne's War, Capt. Robbins Co.

Excerpt from "Belden/Baildon": Selectman 1695, appointed Ens. 1703, later lt., and deacon. Owned interest in Lead mines at Middletown. Deeded property to sons Silas and Jonathan Jan 23, 1724/5 in consideration that parental love and affection.

Jonathan married Mary WRIGHT on 10 Dec 1685 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas WRIGHT, Jr. and Elizabeth CHITTENDEN) was born on 04 Mar 1664; died on 08 Sep 1741; was buried in Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Notes:

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

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Name:
He was made Freeman, May, 1654; Constable, 1662; Bell Ringer, 1666 and received in 1659 from his father, a homestead on the west side of High Street. He also had 30 acres on the Island; his part was at the north end, while his brother, James, had the south part.

Thomas married Elizabeth CHITTENDEN on 16 Jun 1657. Elizabeth (daughter of Maj. William CHITTENDEN and Joanna SHEAFFE) was born in 1638; died on 17 Feb 1675 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of William Chittenden and Joanne Sheafe
• Death: 24 Aug 1683

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]

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

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Wright Line": It is believed by some expert researchers that Thomas married #2? Margaret Butler, after his first wife, Mary died. There is some confusion WHEN Mary died and thus why the confusion with the second marriage. Because of these confusions, it is possible that Mary died shortly after Joseph was born, and it is possible that Thomas married again and had Joseph. Whatever may have happened, a son was born (Joseph).

Name:
He came to Wethersfield, perhaps from Watertown, before 1639; (Judge Adams' article in Ancient Wethersfield, I, p. 317.); was on the jury of the Particular Court of Conn., Sept. 1643; Selectmen, 1658; committee on town lines, etc; Freeman, May 18, 1654 and constable, 1668/9. He was prominent in church disputes with Rev. John Russell which led many to move to Hadley, Mass. His home lot of three and one-half acres in Wethersfield, was on the west side of High Street, where his home was built, probably before 1639. It was recorded to him Feb. 11, 1640/1. He bought a house, barn and five acres of Samuel Hale on the west side of Back Lane, also the Richard Belden lot of twenty and one-half acres in the West Field in 1654. He also purchased a large part of the Great Island, thereafter known as Wright's Island and which he gave mostly to his sons, Thomas and James.

While it is generally stated that he was a son of John and Grace (Glasscock) Wright of South Weald, Essex, England, there is no absolute proof of it.

Thomas married Mary CRANBROKE on 10 Aug 1629 in South Wead, Essex, England. Mary (daughter of Liutenant William CRANBROKE and Mabel ?) was born about 21 Sep 1609 in Cranbroke, Kent, England; died in 1636. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary possible died in 1636 in Watertown?, Middlesex? or (Boston, Suffolk Co.), Massachusetts.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Mar 1594
• Death: Feb 1661

Notes:

Name:
He came from East Gilford in county Sussex, adjoining Rye on the British Channel, near the border of Kent, or perphaps from Kent, with wife, Joan, dau. of Dr. Jacob Sheaffe of Cranbrook, Kent, and sister of Jacob Sheaffe, and the wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield; and in 1639, he and his brothers-in-law took up their residence at guilford. Was one of the founders of the church there, June, 1, 1639; Representative at 27 sessions between 1643 and 1661, (Savage, Gen Dic. of N.E., I, p 382.) and a magistrate unitl his death. He was one of the six persons selected to purchase the lands in Guilford from the Indians, also one of four who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the publick weal and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us." he was the principal military man in the plantation. He had been a soldier in the English army in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years' War and had reached the rank of Major. His home lot was on the south side of Broad Street at the turn west of the Green.

William married Joanna SHEAFFEEngland. Joanna was born about 1614; died on 16 Aug 1668 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Dr. Jacob Sheaffe and Joanna Jordan of Cranbrook, Kent, England