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About Samuel Belden

Surname has also been reported to be Belding.

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

- 1629 at Kippax, Yorkshire, England - September 16, 1632 at Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England

Date of death has also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

  • January 3, 1712
  • January 3, 1713

BELDING (BELDEN), SAMUEL. (C. 1633-1713). American cabinet maker. He was born in Staffordshire and was brought to America by his parents ca. 1640. In 1661 he came to Hadley in the Connecticut River Valley with John Allis, with whom he later formed a partnership under the title Belding & Allis. His son, Samuel (1657-c1737), carried on the partnership with Ichabod Allis after the death of their fathers. Many of the HADLEY CHESTS are attributed to this firm.

"The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts" Harold Osborn: Oxford Clarendon Press 1975, p. 73.

Boltwood's Genealogies of Hadley Families, pgs. 10-11.

1. BELDING, SAMUEL, s. of Richard, rem. from Wethersfield to Hat., and d. Jan. 3, 1713. M.(1) Mary, who was slain Sept. 19, 1677; m(2) June 25, 1678, Mary, wid. of Thomas Wells; she d. Sept. 20, 1691; m.(3) 1691, Mary, wid. Of John Allis; m.(4) Apr. 10, 1705, Sarah, wid of John Wells. Children–Mary,b. July 10, 1655; Samuel, b. Apr. 6, 1657;Stephen, b. Dec. 28,1658; Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1661; Ann, b. Jan. 27, 1665; Ebenezer, b. Nov 16, 1667, m. Martha; John, B. Nov. 13, 1669

Samuel senior was a Townsman (Selectman) of Hadley in 1668. (Judd, Sylvester; "History of Hadley Massachusetts", New Hampshire Publishing Company, Somersworth, 1976 p. 446. This edition is a reproduction of the 1905 edition.


Immigrated to Connecticut c.1638 with his parents. Served as Wethersfield Town Cow-Keeper, 1648 (serious responsibility for a 19-year-old). Served as a juror, 1655.

Served in King Philip's War, 1657.


Samuel - bap. Sep. 16, 1632, (of Wadsworth) Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England; d. Jan. 3, 1712/3, Northfield, Franklin Co., MA. Town cow-keeper in 1648, soldier in King Philip's War, juror in 1655, and freeman May 21, 1657. In 1654, Samuel received a gift of land from his father. John WINTHROP, in his Medical Journal, records that Samuel was married and age 26 in 1658. Moved to Hatfield, opposite Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA about 1661. Married first about 1654 Mary (killed by Indians Sep. 19, 1677); second Jun. 25, 1678 Mary BEARDSLEY (b. 1631; d. Sep. 20, 1691, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MS), daughter of William BEARDSLEY and Mary, and widow of Thomas WELLS; third in 1691 at Northfield, Franklin Co., MA Mary MEAKINS (b. about 1645, Braintree, MA; d. Feb. 29, 1704, Deerfield, MA), daughter of Thomas and Sarah MEAKINS, and widow of John ALLIS; and fourth Apr. 10, 1705 in Northfield, Franklin Co., MA Sarah CURTISS, widow of John WELLS. Children of Samuel and Mary BELDEN, his first marriage: Mary married Daniel WELD; Samuel married first Sarah FELLOWES, widow of Samuel BILLINGS, and married second Mary (BURT) HASTINGS, widow of Thomas HASTINGS, Jr.; Stephen married Mary WELLS; Sarah; Ann; Ebenezer married Martha; and John married Sarah (poss. WAIT).



Edith Horsfall, "The Parish Registers of Heptonstall" (Yorkshire Parish Register Society 1925), indicates that the ancient chapelry of Heptonstall included the town of Wadsworth, Midgley, Warley, Stansfield, Erringden (Ayringden), Langfield, Sowerby and Rishworth, all covered by this parish register. The pertinent records appear to be:

123 16 Sept 1632 Samuell fil Richard Balden de Wad. (bapt.)

from A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in Three Parts By Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field :

This concerns an expedition circa May 18, 1677 against the Indians of "Phillip":

The following Hatfield men took part in the expedition : William Allis, son of the lieutenant, William Arms, Rev. Hope Atherton, Sergt. Robert Bardwell. Samuel Belden, Stephen Belden, John.Colefax. Samuel Field, Nathaniel Foote, Samuel Gillett, William Scott, and Sergt. Benjamin Waite. William Allis, John Colefax. and Samuel Gillett were killed.

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Samuel Belden's Timeline

1627
1627
Kippax,Yorks,Eng
1632
September 16, 1632
Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
September 16, 1632
Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England
September 16, 1632
Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England
September 16, 1632
Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England
1632
Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1655
July 10, 1655
Hatfield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1657
April 6, 1657
Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony
December 28, 1657
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA