Richard Belding

Staffordshire → Wethersfield CT

Children include William

Richard Belding came out of Staffordshire and was among the early settlers of Wethersfield, the plantation on the west bank of the Connecticut seven and a half miles below Hartford that colonists from Watertown, Dorchester and Newtown had founded in 1634. The date of his own arrival is not known.

Temple's history of Whately puts him in Wethersfield in 1640 with a land grant at New London. His name first appears in the town's own records on the seventh day of the second month, 1641, in an entry of the lands of Ric: Bayldon, which include one piece whereon a house is builded, three acres and a rood more or less, the ends abutting against Broad Street north. That was where he lived, and Trumbull's history of Hartford County prints a map showing where it stood. He later sold it to Richard Parke.

Whitney's genealogy gives him two sons, both born in Staffordshire: William, born about 1623, who married Tomisin at Wethersfield around 1644 and afterwards went to Norwalk, and Samuel, born about 1633, who stayed with his father until 1661 and then went up the river to Hatfield. Savage instead gives him Samuel and probably John.

His ancestry, his wife and the date of his death are not known, and no other family is known to have come with him.

Children

William Belding

Sources

Charles C. Whitney, Some Belding Genealogy, being some of the descendants of Richard Belding, of Staffordshire, England, one of the earliest settlers of Wethersfield, Conn. (privately printed, New York, December 1896)

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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Belding", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-belding-6354ff.