Silas BELDEN

Male 1691 - 1741  (49 years)


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  • Name Silas BELDEN  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 29 Jul 1691  Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death 1741  Dutchess, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    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. [3]
    Person ID I04985  Main Tree
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2022 

    Father Jonathan BELDEN,   b. 21 Jun 1660, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 06 Jul 1734, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Mary WRIGHT,   b. 04 Mar 1664   d. 08 Sep 1741 (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 10 Dec 1685  Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Family ID F04379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail ROBBINS,   b. Abt 1697, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1783, Dutchess, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 30 Nov 1716  [1, 3
    Children 
     1. Jonathan BELDEN,   b. 16 Nov 1737, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Jan 1778, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)  [Natural]
     2. Lydia BELDEN,   b. 03 Mar 1730, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    Family ID F02988  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Jul 2022 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S01987] Connecticut, 1600s-1800s Local Families and Histories.

    2. [S03684] "Belden/Baildon", From the files of Stephen M. Lawson.
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    3. [S04068] "Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut".

    4. [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.