Stephen BELDING was born on 28 Dec 1658 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT, the son of Samuel BELDING and Mary WELLS. He died on 6 Oct 1720.
Mary WELLS was born on 8 Sep 1664, daughter of Thomas WELLS and Mary BEARDSLEY, and died about 1751.
Stephen BELDING and Mary WELLS were married on 16 Aug 1682 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. They lived in Hatfield, where at least the first 5 of their 9 children were born.
After her husband died, Mary at age 58 married Capt. Joseph FIELD, of Northfield, MA.
1 Mary WELLS b: 08 Sep 1664, d: 1751, age 86 or 87
+ Stephen BELDING b: 28 Dec 1658 in Wethersfield, m: 16 Aug 1682 in Hatfield, d: 06 Oct 1720, age 61
......2 Elizabeth BELDING b: 02 Feb 1683 in Hatfield, d: 22 Jan 1769, age 85
...... + Richard SCOTT b: 22 Feb 1673 in Hatfield, m: 15 Jan 1702, d: 31 Mar 1750 in Sunderland, Franklin, MA, age 77
......2 Mary BELDING b: 20 May 1685
...... + John WAITE b: 17 Jan 1680, m: 12 Feb 1702, d: 1744
......2 Sarah BELDING b: 25 Oct 1687
......2 Stephen BELDING b: 22 Feb 1689, d: 1735-6 in Northfield, Franklin, MA, age about 44
...... + Mindwell WRIGHT, dau. Capt. Benjamin WRIGHT
......2 Samuel BELDING b: 23 Oct 1692 in Hatfield, d: 05 Oct 1732, age 39
...... + Elizabeth DICKINSON m: 1717, dau. of Hezekiah DICKINSON, of Springfield, Mass.
......2 Jonathan BELDING b: 1694, d: 06 Jul 1778, age 83 or 84
......2 Joshua BELDING b: 1695, d: 1738 in Whatley, MA, age 43
...... + Sarah FIELD m: 01 Dec 1725
......2 Esther BELDING
...... + Nathaniel GUNN m: 1724
......2 Lydia BELDING d: 24 Jul 1714
+ Capt. Joseph FIELD m: 02 Jan 1723
Stephen's father Samuel had moved the family from Wethersfield to Hatfield in 1661, when Stephen was about 3. Stephen BELDING appeared in Hatfield in the MA Census of 1679. He would have been about 21, and unmarried.
Stephen's mother, Mary, was "killed by Indians when they attacked Hatfield on 19 September, 1677. In this attack the Indians burned 7 houses; killed 12, wounded 4, and carried 17 inhabitants into captivity." [CCW, p. 6]
Jonathan BELDING "received a grant of 12 acres of land on condition of building a saw-mill at Northfield, in 1717." [CCW, p. 7]
Sources
[HD] Ancestry of Gov. Howard Dean
Updated 19 Aug 2020 by William Haloupek. Contact haloupek at gmail dot com.