Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Gc 974.602 N83sa 1208980 GENEALOGY COLLECTION 3 1833 02211 8621 Gc 974 N83 120 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/supplementtonorwOOsell (gpplemer?t - - TO IE, GENEALOGY / / I /TV ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCE,) 0f Ancient Men-Qrigtnal Horne-liot Households. BELDEN.1 William Belden15' and his brother Richard15' (2) appear to have together settled (1635-6) in Wethersfield, Conn. From William18' and his wife Thomasine (spelled by William Belden15' Commacine), who were married in 1646, all the Norwalk Beldens have descended. William Belden15' lived in Wethersfield, and there died in about 1660 leaving these children : Samuel1", born July 20, 1647, removed to Norwalk; Daniellst, born November 20, 1648 ;3 Johnlst, born January 9, 1650, removed to Norwalk; -^-^OSOSQ Susannah, born November 5, 1651 ; Marie, born February 2, 1653 ; Nathaniel, born November 13, 1654. 1Anciently spelled " Boyldon." 2Richardlst, brother of William Belden1 st, was in Wethersfield in 1635, where his estate was invento- ried in 1665. He had a son John, who had a son Joseph, who had a son Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of Stephen Mix of Wethersfield. Thomas and Mary (Mix) Belden had a son Thomas, born August 9, 1732, who married August 1, 1753, Abi- gail Porter of East Hartford, Conn. Thomas and Abigail (Porter) Belden had a daughter Mar}', who married Frederick Butler of Hartford. These had eight children, the youngest of whom was Norwalk's distinguished Dr. Thomas B. Butler, who died June 7, 1873. (See page 255.) 3The story of Daniel Belden1'*, oldest brother of Johnlst and Samuel1"1 of Norwalk, is pathetic. In September, 1696, (see pages 156 and 160) his wife and several children were killed by the Indians in Deerfield, Mass., where he lived. He was sold to the French and compelled to sta}' in Canada, where he was found, with other captives, by Cols. Peter and Abraham Schuyler, who were the Commissioners delegated to bear to Canada the copy of the articles of peace between England and France. TheSchuylers took Daniel Belden1"1 to Albany and cared for himself and children until the arrival, from Norwalk, of his brother Johnlst, who paid his bills and arranged for a three weeks' Norwalk visit of Daniel15'. This visit of the sufferer and his children ended, Daniel1'' returned to his former Deerfield home, where he mar- ried, second, Feb. 17, 1699, Hepzibah Wells. His first wife, who was Indian-slain in 1696, was Eliza- beth Smith, granddaughter of Samuel1*' and Elizabeth Smith (the ancestors of the Ebenezer Smith family line of Norwalk, see note column, page 363) and a grandchild, also, of Nathaniellst and Elizabeth (Dem- ing) Foote of Wethersfield. The children of Daniel Beldenlst (by his first wife) were: William'2nd, born Dec. 16, 1671, came to Norwalk; Elizabeth, born Oct. 8, 1673, Mrs. Ebenezer B. Brooks ; Nathaniel, born Jan. 26, 1675; Mary, born Nov. 17, 1677, Mrs. James Trowbridge ; Sarah, born March 14, 1682, Mrs. Benjamin Burt; Esther, born Sept. 29, 1683, Mrs. Ephraim Clark of Stratford ; Abigail1*', born March 10, 1686, died in infancy; Samuel, born April 10, 1687; John, born Aug. 24, 1689, died one day old ; Abigail2"'1, born Aug. 18, 1690; John, born Feb. 28, 1693; Thankful, born Dec. 21, 1695, died in infancy. Ebenezer Burt Brooke, or Brooks, who married Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Daniel Beldenlst, was a son of William and Mary (Burt) Brooks. Merc3r, sister of Ebenezer B. Brooks, married, as his first wife, Dec. 4, 1690, Samuel Carter of Deerfield, Mass., and later of Norwalk. (See note columns, page 366.) Ebenezer2"4, son of Ebenezer1"' and Elizabeth (Bel- den) Brooks, is probably the individual mentioned in the Ridgefield Town Records who married, Aug. 27, 1730, Jane St. John. His cousin Christopher, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Belden) Burt, married Dec. 21, 1727, Joanna, sister of Jane St. John. The Burts came from Deerfield to Norwalk, and went afterward , about 1713, to Ridgefield. Nathaniel, next child of Daniel Belden15', was one of the Deerfield Indian-captured Beldens of Sept. 16, 1696. He died at the age of eighteen. 3«4 N O R W A L K . Samuel Beldenlst and his brother Johnlst came to Norwalk. Samuel was unmarried, but Johnlst here founded a family.1 John Belden,l3t son of William1"* and Thomasine Belden, was, with his brother Samuel,15", a resident of Norwalk, where he married Ruth (see page 88), daughter of Samuellst and Ruth (More or Moore) Hayes, and had: John2nd; Samuel2nd, removed to Stamford ; Ruth, born 1690; baptized October 7, 1694; died 1704. Ann, Mrs. Justus Bush, of Rye.'2 John'2"", son of Johnlst and Ruth (Hayes) Belden, married May 9, 1728, Ruhama, daughter of Capt. John Hill of Westerly, R. I., and had: John3'11, born April 26, 1729; Thomas, born March 25, 1 731 , unmarried; Hezekiah, born April 25, 1736, unmarried; Mary, born January 26, 1739; Samuel8"1. John Belden8"', son of John2nd and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, married Rebecca,8 daughter of John1"' and Mary (Betts) Bartlett (see page 296), and had: Mary Belden, daughter of Daniellst. married James Trowbridge April 19, 1698. Daniel21"1, namesake son of Daniellst, was one ol the victims, at the age of sixteen, at the Deerfield slaughter of 1696. Sarah, third daughter of Daniellst, married Ben- jamin, son of David Burt, and grandson of Henry Burt of Roxbury and Springfield. Sarah Belden was married to Benjamin Burt December 16, 1702. Her husband was born November 17, 1780. Samuel, son of Daniel Beldenlst, was wounded in the 1696 attack but lived to marry, February 26, 1724, Anna Thomas. She died in a few months and her husband married, second, September 26, 1726, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Ingraham of Had- ley, Mass. Samuel Belden died December 17, 1750. Abigail Belden'2"'1, daughter of Daniellst, was, it is thought, wounded by a shot from the fort in Deer- field. John Belden, son of Daniellst, fell with his mother by a savage blow in 1696, and his sister Thankful also. Holm Belden1"' and his brother Samuel18' have maiden Norwalk registration 1671 — 1673. The first was, at the first date, twenty-one and the second twenty-four years of age. John was an active man, and an early Norwalk soldier, whose services were acknowledged by the settlers. He evidently grew in influence, as on April 30, 1690, he was town ap- pointed as one of a committee of four to fortify the meeting house, and on January 16, 1694, was chosen a committeeman to call a minister in the place of the Rev. Thomas Hanford, then deceased. Some of the strongest men in the plantation were put upon this committee. John Beldenlst was also one of the purchasers, in 1708, of Ridgefield. He died in 1713-14 and his widow married John Copp, originallj' from the eastern part of the colon}'. Mr. Copp was a public man, who continued to occupy his Strawberry Hill home until his decease. Mr. Copp made his will October 12, 1749, which instrument, probated June 4, 1751, bequeathed his " physical books, drugs, roots," to his stepson, Samuel Belden. He left to Rev. Moses Dickinson £100 and to the First Congregational Society £100 additional. He also left £400, the income of which should be expended in the interest of his two negroes, and at their death the same was made to fall to the ecclesiastical society before named. Samuel Fitch, brother of Gov., and Isaac Hayes were his chosen executors, to each of whom he left £50, "reasonable wages." 2Had sons Justus, John, Bernardus, Isaac and Abraham. The will of Mr. Bush is dated June 24, 1737. 8Rebecca, Mrs. John Belden3"1, was a daughter of John Bartlett by his second marriage. John Bart- lett was born October 15, 1677, at " 5 of the A. M.," and died August 5, 1761. His first wife was Eliza- beth, born 16S4-5, daughter of "Mr. William Haynes," (see page 206). Mrs. Elizabeth Bartlett NORWALK. 385 John4"', unmarried; Isaac15' ; Amos, born July 13, 1764; Henry ; Mary Esther, born 1753 (Mrs. William St. John); Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Cannon). Samuel3"1, son of John2"'1 and Ruhama (Hill) Belden, married March g, 1774, Ann, believed to have been born January 28, 1754, daughter of Joseph and Alithea (Wetmore) Lampson and had : Thomas, born January 17, 1775; Samuel, born October 27, 1777; William (Colonel) born September 15, 1780; Hezekiah, born January 27, 1783. Isaac1, son of John1" and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, married Esther, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Reed, and had : Esther Mary, (Mrs. Rev. Augustus Summers first, and, second, Mrs. Socrates Squires) ; "deceased (per Bible record) February, 6, 1722-3, in the 39th year of her age at 11 A.M." Mr. Bartlett married, second, Mary (see page 96), daughter of Thomas2nd and Sarah (Marvin) Betts, and had Ann and Rebecca, the second of whom, Rebecca, was the second Mrs. John Belden3rd. The children of Mr. Bartlett by his first wife were: Elizabeth (Mrs. Eben- ezer Smith); Hannah (Mrs. Elnathan Hanford); William; Isabel (Mrs. Ephraim Smith); Mary (Mrs. Lyndal Fitch); Sarah (Mrs. Nathaniel Satterly); John; Samuel. From the Ephraim Smith son-in-law of John Bartlett descended the New York Captain Isaac Bell line. (See note, page 167.)