Selleck, Charles Melbourne. Norwalk

(Norwalk, Conn. :  The author,  1896.)

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]ohn*'^ unmarried;

Isaaci" ;

Amos, born  July 13, 1764;

Henry ;

Mary Esther, born 1753 (Mrs. William St. John);

Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Cannon).
SamueP^   son   of   John^""  and  Ruhama  (Mil))  Belden,   married  March 9, 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.
Isaaci,  son of   Johni'" 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
Thonias2nd and Sarah (Marvin) Betts, and had Ann
and Rebecca, the second of whom, Rebecca, was the
second Mrs. John Belden^rd. The children of Mr.
Bartlett by his first wife were: Elizabeth (Mrs. Eben¬
ezer Smith); Hannah (Mrs. Elnathan Hanford);
WilHam; Isabel (iMrs. Ephraim Smith); Mary (.Mrs.
Lyndal Fitch); Sarah (Mrs. Nathaniel Satteriy);
John; Samuel. From the Ephraim Smith son-in-law
of John Bartlett descended the New York Captain
Isaac Bell line.    (See note, page 167.)

iJsaac, son of John^rd and Rebecca (Bartlett)
Belden, was a Belden son who, as was true of his
brother, John*'h, Norv\'alk remained. It is inferred
that his house, now the West Avenue club property
of St. Mary's parish, was built by himself after the
British burning. He was a farmer, and as did Stephen
St. John, used the "garret" of his house for grain
storage. Traces of the elevated doorway for grain
elevation are still discerned in the north gable of the
old West Avenue House. Mr. Belden worked (see
page 146) the Belden Point farm and the harvest
trips to and from the shore with, quite likely, hinch-
eon under the shade and a dip at high tide in the salt
water, to say nothing of the ever changing sea-scape
novelty, possessed such attraction that two youths,
at least, were happy^ escorts, occasionally, of Mr.
Belden. One was the young clerk, L. 0. Wilson,
afterward Mr. Belden's son-in-law, who in those
days was seen hastening down the Ely Neck road
with horse under saddle and rider holding a grain
cradle, and the other a nephew of Mr. Belden, John,
 

son of Henry Belden, a society young man, but who
professed that he preferred association with " Uncle
Isaac in the Neck" to college chumming.

Mrs. Isaac Belden, whose parents rest a short
distance from the southwest door of St. Paul's
Church, was a daughter of Matthew and EHzabeth
(Kellogg) Reed. Matthew Reed was a genius, a fine
specimen of whose hand-ci-aft stands to-day in a
Stamford home in the lower part of Summer street.
It is an old clock, across the face of which Mr. Reed's
name is plainly inscribed. Its maker was born in
1739, in Norwalk, and was a son of William and
Rachel (Kellogg) Reed and grandson of John^nd and
Elizabeth (Tuttle) Reed, which John2nd -was the old¬
est son of John Reed, Senior and settler, whose grave
is marked by a granite slab which stands on the
grounds of Samuel R. Weed of Rowayton, Conn.
Mrs. Matthew Reed, born 1746, was a daughter of
Samuel Kellogg^nd (son of SamueU^' and grandson of
Settler Daniel Kellogg, see page 372), Her daughter
Esther was a woman of stability, Polly, Esther's
sister, born 1768, married, April 3, 1789, Seth, son of
John and Ruth Seymour, whose son Uriah is repre¬
sented to-day by his children who occupy, in 1899,
the interesting South Norwalk Seymour premises, a
little distance north of the new and handsome First
Methodist Episcopal Church of that city. Hannah
Reed, a sister between Airs. Seth Seymour and Mrs.
Isaac Belden, married, January 5, 1804, Asa, son of
Nathaniel and Anna (Raymond) Benedict and father
of the late George W. and W^illiam H. Benedict (see
note, page 378) of South Norwalk. Matthew Reed
died December 4, 1797, leaving children other than
those named.
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