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DANIEL, son of Daniel Beckley, m. Ruth, and had issue : Seth, b. July 28, 1753 ; perhaps others.
ELIAS, b. 1735, son of John Beckley, m. Lois Parsons ; issue : Elisha, b. Feb. 13, 1760 ; Rowena, b. April 2, 1763 ; Olive, b. June 17, 1765 ; Selah, b. March 31, 1767 ; Sylvester, b. April 1, 1771 ; Lois, b. Nov. 6, 1773.
BECKLEY, RICHARD, a planter in New Haven colony, in 1643 ; perhaps the same Richard who was at Wethersfield. Rich- ard, Sen., d. at Guilford.
Beckley has two coats of arms.
BECKWITH, MATTHEW, resided on lot 10, in Main street, in
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Hartford, 1645. He was fined 10s. for unseasonable and immoder- ate drinking at the pinnace, 1639 ; plaintiff in a case before the par- ticular court, in 1642 ; also plaintiff in a case in 1644. In 1649, Matthew Marvin sued him in slander, and Beckwith made a peni- tent, public confession of his evil in slandering him, and the fine was remitted by the court, and the plaintiff. Mathew Becquet, made free, 1658. Stephen Beckwith, defendant in a case at Hartford, 1649. He was fined ten shillings for using ardents, 1639. Stephen Beckwith was of Hartford, in 1649.
BECKWITH, NATHANIEL, Haddam, died in 1717, and left Sarah, his widow, with £269 estate. His children were, Job, Na- thaniel, Jerusha, Sarah, Joseph and Patience. Nathaniel, of Lyme, was appointed by the court, guardian of the children of Nathaniel Beckwith, deceased, of Haddam. It is probable the two Nathaniels above, were the sons of Matthew and Stephen, brothers, who were early settlers in Hartford, neither of whom appear to have died at Hartford. He owned a part of a vessel.
BECKWITH, BENJAMIN, had an ear-mark at Lyme, in 1734, and William, his ear-mark, in 1736. George and Allen Beckwith, in 1738.
BECKWITH, REV. GEORGE, was settled as pastor over the third society in Lyme.
There was a Stephen Beckwith, an early settler at Norwalk ; he sold his farm to Richard Holmes, in March, 1663. The town voted in 1667, " that Stephen Beckwith, or some other man, should be hired to fetch the cows, out of the Neck."
Five of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1848.
BECKWITH, ROBERT, John Harris and others, imbarked from England, for Virginia, July 4, 1635. (N. E. G. Reg., No. 12, p. 389.) Beckwith has four coats of arms.
BECKWITH, STEPHEN, is in (Hall's) list of original" settlers at Norwalk, in 1655. He was at Hartford, in 1649, and probably removed to Norwalk before 1655, and is found there as late as 1687.
BELCHER, MR. ANDREW, m. Sarah, daughter of Mr. Jona- than Gilbert, of Hartford, July 1, 1670. He lived on lot No. 10, in Main street, Hartford, in 1670. He erected and owned a warehouse at Saybrook, in 1675. He came from Mass., and had a son Andrew, b. at Hartford, March 12, 1671-2.
BELCHER, SAMUEL, of Windsor, d. in 1756. His will was presented to the court, by Col. Joseph Richards, of Dedham, Mass., as executor. Mabel, his widow. Supposed to have been killed at
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or near Crown Point. He left no children, and gave all his estate to his widow and his cousin Belcher Richards, son of Joseph, of Ded- ham, except small sums to his brother-in-law, Rev. Andrew Tyler, and Rebecca Welton ; estate £296.
BELCHER, COL. SAMUEL, who deceased at Hartford, in 1849. Inventory $37,000. He was the son of David Belcher, of Wren- tham, Mass., and grandson of Samuel, of the same place. Children of Samuel, Sen., were, Andrew, Elizabeth, John, David, Wood- bridge, all born at Wrentham.
DAVID, m. Rachel Burr, of Hingham, and removed to Belling- ham, and in 1782, to Thompson, Conn., and in 1798, to Stafford, and died there in 1811. David's children were, Col. Samuel, b. at Bel- lingham, in 1779; Sarah, b. at Bellingham, in 1782; David, b. at Thompson, Conn., 1785; John, b. at Thompson, 1787, d. aged two; Rhoda, b. at Thompson, 1789. Sarah m. John Perry, of South Brimfield, and had three sons and seven daughters ; she died at Hartford, 1846. David, (brother of Col. Samuel,) m. Miss Sawyer, of Wales, Mass., and had seven children ; he d. 1841. Rhoda, m. Sewall Shaw, of Wales, and had two children.
Col. Samuel Belcher, of Hartford, m. Pamelia Pinney, daughter of Eleazer, of Ellington, April, 1805, and had two children ; both died single, before their father.
Nine of this name graduated at Harvard College, before 1840, and one at Yale College. This name is yet at New London.
BELCHER, MR. EDWARD, took the oath of freeman in Mass., 1631.
Belcher has three coats of arms.
BELCHER, ANDREW, the first innkeeper at Cambridge, about 1652, when "the townsmen granted liberty to Andrew Belcher, to sell beare and bread, for entertainment of strangers and the good of the towne."
BELCHER, JONATHAN, Governor of Mass., between 1730 and '41. Was Governor of New Jersey.
BELCHER, MR. JOSEPH, of Dedham, about 1700.
BELCHER, MR., senior counsellor, appointed Lieut. Governor of Nova Scotia, and was succeeded by Col. Wilmot, in 1763.
BELCHER, REV. MR., preacher at the Isle of Shoals, about 1690.
BELCHER, REV. SAMUEL, graduated at Harvard College, 1659; settled at Newbury.
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BELCHER, JEREMY, aged twenty two years, embarked in the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, master, for New England.
BELCHER, EDWARD, a servant, aged eight years, embarked in the Abigall, for New England.
BELDEN, RICHARD, (spelt Bayldon and Belding, for many years ) He was one of the early settlers of Wethersfield. The land record of Wethersfield says, " The 2d month and 7th daie, 1641, the lands of Rich Bayldon, (those given him by the towne, and those he bought of Jonas Woods,) lying in Wethersfield, on Connec- ticut River." Eight pieces were thus "given and bought " and their location and description given. In Oct., 1654, he gave his son Samuel, a piece of land.
BELDEN, WILLIAM : tradition says, that two brothers by the name of Belden, were among the first settlers of the colony of Con- necticut, and that they made their first location at Wethersfield, but that one of them, ( William, ) after a while, on the settlement of Nor- walk, removed thither. As early as Feb. 7, 1641, and among the earliest grants, Richard had eight distinct tracts of land allotted to him by the town, and little or no mention is made of William, save that he had three sons, Samuel, Daniel and John, b. by his first wife, Tomisin ; yet William's death is found in Wethersfield, about 1660, and Samuel and John are found at Norwalk, about 1673, (sons of William.) William's children were : Samuel, b. July 20, 1647; Daniel, b. Nov. 20, 1648; John, b. Jan. 9, 1650; Susannah, b. Nov. 5, 1651 ; Marie, b. Feb. 2, 1653; Nathan, b. Nov. 13, 1654.
John Belding, a soldier, had the remainder of the swamp, in 1676, after his father Hale's land should be laid out, &c. (Norwalk Rec.)
BELDEN, RICHARD, of Wethersfield, was defendant in Court, in 1643. In 1645 was bound in Court for the appearance of George Chappel, and for the good behavior of said George, till the next Court. Samuel Belden made free, 1657, and John Belden made free at the same time : the latter was an enlisted trooper under Maj. ' John Mason ; March, 1657-8, approved by the General Court.
BELDEN, SAMUEL, JR., son of Samuel, m. Hannah, Jan. 14, 1685. They had issue : Samuel, b. July 25, 1689 ; Daniel, Feb. 14, 1691; Gideon, March 24, 1693; Prudence, Feb. 12, 1694 ; Richard, April 18, 1699; Matthew, June 13, 1701, and Hannah, Sept. 25, 1704.
DANIEL, 2d son of Samuel, Jr., m. Margaret Clark, widow, daughter of Peter Blin, Nov. 23, 1714. They had issue, five daugh- ters, Margaret, Lois, Prudence, Eunice, and Thankful, b. Sept. 10,
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1715, June 14, 1717, Jan. 28, 1719, March 17, 1722, Nov. 10, 1724 ; no sons.
SAMUEL, 3d son of Samuel, Jr., m. Mary Spencer, of Haddam, April 10, 1712. They had issue : Samuel, b. April 26, 1713 ; Ja- red, Jan. 19, 1715 ; Nathaniel, June 24, 1716 ; Lydia, May 24, 1718 ; Asa, April 1, 1720 ; Mary, Dec. 11, 1721; Ann. Nov. 7, 1723 ; Seth, Sept. 18, 1725 ; Daniel, May 19, 1727 ; Richard, Dec. 30, 1728; Phineas, Sept. 14,. 1730; Dorothy, Sept. 6, 1732; Es- ther, June 22, 1734, and Martha, June 6, 1736.
SAMUEL, 4th, eldest son of Samuel 3d, b. April 26, 1713, m. Elizabeth, and had issue : Abner, b. Jan. 12, 1744 ; Bildad, Sept. 9, 1745 ; Seth, Aug. 7, 1747; Moses, June 18, 1749, and three daughters, Prudence, Rebecca and Mary.
RICHARD, 7th son of Samuel, 3d, b. Dec. 30, 1728 : m. Elizabeth Hurlbut, Oct. 30, 1749 ; had issue : Amos, b. Oct. 26, 1750 ; Jeremi- ah, March 26, 1753 ; Othniel, March 27, 1755 ; Caleb, Feb. 10, 1757.
PHINEAS, Sth son of Samuel, 3d. b. Sept. 14, 1730, m. Hannah Deming, March 22, 1751; had issue : Charles, b. April 3, 1752, and a daughter Mary.
GIDEON, 4th son of Samuel, Jr .. m. Elizabeth, daughter of Zach- ariah Seimer, (Seymour, ) Feb. 7, 1712. They had issue : Eunice, Elisha, b. July 22, 1715, Ruth, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah, Heze- kiah, b. Oct. 26, 1725, Sarah and Experience.
MATTHEW, 5th son of Samuel, Jr., b. June 13, 1701, m. Eliz- abeth, daughter of Samuel Williams, April 16, 1729 ; had issue : a daughter Mercy.
JOHN, the 2d son of Richard, m. Lydia, April 24, 1657. They had issue, John, b. June 12, 1658 ; Jonathan, June 21, 1660 ; Jo- seph, April 23, 1663 ; Samuel, Jan. 3, 1665 ; Daniel, Oct. 12, 1670 ; Ebenezer, Jan. 8, 1672, and two daughters, Sarah and Margaret. He was much employed in the public affairs of the town. He d. in 1677, aged 46. Estate £911.
JOHN, JR., son of John, m. Dorothy, daughter of Josiah Willard, June 15, 1682 ; had issue : Josiah, b. Feb. 14, 1683 ; John, Dec. 3, 1685 ; Benjamin, 1687 ; Stephen, May 21, 1697 ; Ezra, Nov. 27, 1699, and three daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Dorothy.
JOSIAH, eldest son of John, Jr., m. Mabel, daughter of Serg't. Samuel Wright, May 1, 1707, and had issue : Josiah, b. June 11, 1713 ; Ozias, Nov. 18, 1714; Return, Jan. 28, 1721 ; Solomon, May 22, 1722 ; and six daughters, Mabel Wright, Dorothy, Rebec. ca, Abigail, Lydia and Hannah ; d. Sept. 5, 1746.
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BELDEN, SILAS, son of John, of Wethersfield, m. Abigail Rob- ins, daughter of Capt. Joshua, Nov. 30, 1716, and had issue : Silas, Jr., b. Nov. 13, 1717 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 4, 1720, (m. Thomas Hurl- but, of Wethersfield ;) Joshua, Charles, Lydia, Oliver, and Jona- than, b. Nov. 16, 1737. 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, N. Y., and Berkshire county, Mass., for the purpose of settling his children on his new lands. In the autumn of 1741, he returned to Wethersfield, to close his concerns there, and remove his family to Canaan. He was seiz- ed with a malignant dysentery, while at Wethersfield, and died. SILAS, JR., his eldest son, settled at Canaan. JOSHUA, his 2d son, graduated at Yale College, in 1743, and settled in the ministry, at Newington, Nov. 11, 1747, where he continued until Nov., 1803 ; m. Anne, daughter of Lieut. Ebenezer Belden, 1749, and had nine daughters. His wife, Anne, d. Oct. 29, 1773. He m. for his sec- ond wife, Honor Whiting, widow of Capt. Charles, of Norwich, and daughter of Hezekiah Goodrich, Esq., of Wethersfield, Nov. 14, 1774, and had a son Hezekiah, b. Feb. 17, 1778 : he d. July 23, 1813. Joshua Belden, 2d son of Joshua Belden, Jr., graduated at Yale College, 1825 ; he settled and m. widow Agnes Morton Graves, of Glasgo, Missouri, and has a daughter Elizabeth Morton. Chaun- cey Belden, the 3d son of Joshua Belden, was educated a physican, at Yale College, and settled in West Springfield, where he had a family of children, and d. there, in 1846. CHARLES, the 3d son of Silas Belden, settled at Dover, N. Y. : this family has furnished a member of Congress. OLIVER, the 4th son of Silas Belden, b. Nov. 19, 1732, settled on a fine farm in Lenox, Mass. : two of his sons have represented Lenox, in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and some of the descendants are yet at Lenox. Thomas Belden, Ist, had a son Joseph, who was b. Nov. 24, 1733 ; his son Thomas settled at Hartford, where he d. a few years since, and left a family.
SIMEON, (son of Thomas, 1st,) b. Feb. 24, 1737, graduated at Yale College, 1762, m. Martha, daughter of Rev. James Lockwood, Nov. 3, 1765. His son Simeon, b. April 27, 1769, settled at Fay- etteville N. C. ; he m. a daughter of Hon. L. B. Sturges, of Fair- field.
SAMUEL, b. Jan, 3, 1665, the 4th son of John, Ist, supposed re-
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moved to New London ; and Daniel, the 5th son of John, 1st, b. 1670, supposed removed to Norwalk.
The Beldings were early settlers at Hatfield, Mass. Daniel, Sam- uel, Sen., Stephen and Samuel, Jr., were there, and took the oath of allegiance, in Massachusetts, Feb., 1678, and the name is yet nu- merous at Hatfield. DANIEL and Elizabeth, his wife, of Hatfield, had a son William b. there, Dec. 26, 1671, and others. SAMUEL, and Mary, of Hatfield, had a son Richard b. there, March 29, 1672- 3, and others. Twenty of this family have graduated at Yale Col- lege. The name for many years was spelled Belding on the records at Wethersfield, and was many years after by consent of the different branches of the family, changed to Belden, which was the original name in England.
BELKNAP, SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth, and had a son Elisha, b. at Wethersfield, Dec. 1, 1708.
Elizabeth Belknap d. at Ellington, Feb. 5, 1793. Simeon Bel- knap d. at Ellington, Dec. 3, 1804.
This name came late into the Colony from Massachusetts.
Farmer notes Abraham, of Lynn, 1637 ; Salem, d. a 1643. (Felt, Lewis.) Joseph, of Boston, probably his son, a member of the ar. co., 1658, freeman 1659. His children : Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1659; Na- thaniel, b. Aug. 13, 1663 ; Thomas, John, Abraham, Joseph, Jere- miah, b. Jan. 1, 1687.
SAMUEL, of Woburn, 1734.
BELKNAPPE, (Warwickshire,) has one coat of arms.
BELLAMY, MATHEW, was first settled at Fairfield, and upon the 17th day of August, 1682, B. Stone of Guilford, conveyed to Mathew Bellamy, of Fairfield, lands in Killingworth, (B. 1, p. 186, Kill. Town Rec.,) two deeds in Fairfield, of this kind. Mr. Bella- my removed to Killingworth, and on the 25th day of Feb., 1698-9, Mathew Bellamy, of Wallingford, son of Mathew, Sen., of Killing- worth, then deceased, conveyed all his father's interest in all his lands in Killingworth, to Henry Crane, of Killingworth. (Town Rec., B. 1, p. 4, in Kill.) Mathew, Jr., probably was in that part of Wal- lingford, then called Westbury, or New Cheshire, now Cheshire, where his son Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D. D., was born.
Mathew Bellamy, the son of Mathew, Sen., of Killingworth, him- self of Wallingford, m. Mary, and had a large family of children, viz., Mathew, 3d, Samuel, Moses, Aaron, John, James, Joseph, D. D. ; daughters, Sarah, Hannah, Mary Grey : sons-in-law, Benjamin Grey and John Roys. Mathew, 2d, d. about 1752. His will (Pro-
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bate, N. H.) is dated Nov. 3, 1744 : his wife Mary, Executrix, and son Mathew, Executor, (the last refused to act.) He was a farmer and owned a vast estate in lands ; his personal estate was inventoried and appraised at £2660, 2s. He had four negro servants, (a negro woman appraised at £100; Mingo £500; Lewis £500, and Phillip £140 :) his son James lived at Westbury, upon one of his father's farms, at date of the will. He gave his son, Samuel, his farm in Farmington, 123} acres, and £200. Moses and Aaron had his farm and buildings in Wallingford, where he lived, and he provided thus liberally for his other children and wife. He gave £4 to the church in Bethlem, where his son Joseph preached : witnesses to the will, were " Waite Ebernathe, Damaris Abernathe," and David Dutton.
BELLAMY, JOSEPH, D. D., was b. at Wallingford, 1719, in the Colony of New Haven. His father was a wealthy farmer, and of great good common sense ; he early discovered in his son Joseph, talents, which only required an education to make him a useful member of society. He graduated at Yale College, in 1735, and was a class mate of Aaron Burr, (the father of Col. Aaron,) Dan- iel Buckingham and John Trumbull. He soon prepared himself for the pulpit, for which he was most admirably fitted, not only by his piety, but by his most powerful and persuasive eloquence. His general appearance was commanding, being tall and strait in per- son ; his face was full of firmness and dignity, and in his old age, his aspect was commanding and venerable, particularly when he was adorned with a large white wig. He became like the first Presi- dent Edwards, the very embodiment of Divinity, in Connecticut. Soon after Dr. Bellamy was prepared for the pulpit, viz., on the 2d day of November, 1738, when, what is now Bethlem, was called the North Purchase of Woodbury, he went there to preach, Nov. 2, 1738, and obtained society privileges there, in Oct., 1739. Upon the 20th day of February, 1740, the people of Bethlehem were advised by the Eastern Association of Fairfield county, to call Mr. Bellamy to settle with them as their pastor, which was done by a unanimous vote, March 12, which he accepted ; and the 27th day of March, 1740, was set apart as a day of fasting and prayer. He was or- dained April 2, 1740. His salary in 1780, was £90.
In 1768, he received his Doctorate in Divinity, from the Univer- sity of Aberdeen, in Scotland. His correspondence in Europe was extensive. He kept up a constant interchange of letters for many years, upon religious subjects, with the Rev. John Erskine, D. D., of Edinburgh, and many other learned Divines, in different parts of
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Europe. Dr. Bellamy made many important publications : his "Essay upon the Gospel ;" " The Great Evil of Sin ;" "The Law a School-master ;" " True Religion Delineated," and many others.
He m. about 1744, Miss Frances Sherman, of New Haven, a la- dy of great worth : by her he had seven children, five of whom sur- vived their parents, viz.,
Rebecca, m. Rev. Mr. Hart, of Preston, Conn ; she d. Dec. 24, 1788, aged 41.
Jonathan, graduated at Yale College, 1772, an Attorney.
David, Esq., d. at Bethlem, May, 1826, aged 75.
Elizabeth m. Charles Sheldon, of Springfield, Mass.
Samuel, m. and had children, Charlotte, and others ; he d. at Bethlem : one daughter m. a Mr. Gurnsey, of Watertown, Ct., and William.
His son Jonathan graduated at Yale College, in 1772, read law and was soon admitted to the Bar, in Connecticut ; soon after which, hostilities commenced with Great Britain : in which he took an ac- tive part with the Americans. On his return home, after the cam- paign, in 1776, he was attacked with the small pox, and d. at Ox- ford, Essex county, in New Jersey, Jan. 4, 1777, aged 23 years.
Rebecca, daughter of Dr. Bellamy, m. Rev. Mr. Hart, of Pres- ton, an amiable and pious woman ; she d. Dec. 24, 1788, aged 41 years.
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Bellamy, m. Charles Sheldon, then of Springfield, Mass., afterwards of Suffield, where she d. in 1792, of small pox. Charles Sheldon, Esq., of Hartford, is a son of hers. Charles, of Hartford, grandson of Dr. Bellamy, has children, viz.,
Alicia Sheldon.
Jane Sheldon, m. Dr. P. M. Hastings, of Clinton, N. Y.
Sarah Sheldon.
Charles H. Sheldon.
William L. Sheldon, d. at Romeo, Michigan.
Edward Sheldon, m. Harriet Curtiss.
Henry Sheldon.
Catharine Sheldon, died.
George Sheldon, died.
Samuel, a son of Dr. Bellamy, m. Anna Steel of Bethlem, and had four sons and one daughter. He d. at Bethlem, many years since.
Samuel had children : Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph, Edward and
NOTE .- The first society in the North-purchase, in Woodbury, was made a society by the name of Bethlehem, Oct., 1739. Town incorporated in May, 1787. by the name of Bethlemn.
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Charlotte : the daughter lived with her uncle David Bellamy, Esq., and d. unmarried ; two of his sons left children, who reside in West- ern New York : the children of Samuel are all deceased.
David, Esq., son of Dr. Bellamy, was a gentleman of strong pow- ers of mind ; he was many years a merchant in his native town; a magistrate, and frequently represented the town in the legislature. He early m. Miss Silence Leavitt, daughter of David Leavitt, of Bethlem, and had an only child Joseph H. His wife d. July 3, 1814, aged 61 years. Esq. Bellamy m. in his old age, Mrs. Spald- ing or Miner, of Roxbury. He d. 11th May, 1826, aged 75 years.
William, his youngest child was the pet of his father; he m. in early life, and though he d. when young, he left one or more sons to perpetuate his name. After his decease, his widow removed to Brook- lyn, N. Y., where she d. about 1848.
Joseph Hart Bellamy, Esq., son of David, Esq., graduated at Yale College, in 1808; he read law with Judges Reeves and Gould, at Litchfield, and opened his office in his native town. He m. Miss Hillhouse, of Montville, in New London county, and had two sons and two daughters : the sons both d. young, and the daughters are yet living with their mother in the family mansion at Bethlem.
Dr. Bellamy's first wife d. Aug. 30, 1785, in the 63d year of her age. He m. for his second wife, the widow of Rev. Andrew Storrs, deceased, of Watertown, Conn., in 1786. On the 19th day of Nov., 1786, soon after his second marriage, he was seized with a paralytic shock, which deprived him of the use of his limbs on the left side, and much impaired his intellect ; he d. March 6, 1790, in the 72d year of his age, and the 50th year of his ministry. (Funeral Sermon preached by Rev. Noah Benedict, then of Woodbury.)
In 1674, a Scotch gentleman by the name of Mathew Bellingham, (record,) or M. Bellamy, was employed to teach school, one winter, and one summer, at Saybrook, perhaps the same man afterwards found at Fairfield, and Killingworth. This employment to teach school at Saybrook, is the first record there is upon the subject of schools at Saybrook. In 1690, Edward Lawry or Laurie, left a bequest for the use of schools, in Saybrook. Coats of arms : Bella- my, (Lord Mayor of London, 1735,) one. Bellamy, (Middlesex, ) one. And others for this name. Mary Bellamy, of Wallingford, m. Elijah How, Jan. 28, 1703, by Mr. Street.
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*BELL, FRANCIS, Stamford, 1642. Mr. Bell was one of the early settlers, and an important man in the colony-a firm Puritan in forms and principles. Rev. Mr. Denton, Mitchell, Ward, Law, Rayner, Bell and Hollys, were important men in Stamford, in its first settlement. Some of the descendants of Francis have a Bible which was brought to New England, in the Mayflower, in which is a record of the first male child born in Stamford. Francis Bell is favorably noticed by Cotton Mather, in company with Slauson.
Francis Bell, Richard Law, Jonathan Selleck, George Slauson, and John Holly, of Stamford, made a second purchase, of Taphanse and Powahay, and other Indians, of the town of Stamford, Jan. 7, 1667, and signed the deed for Stamford, and Taphanse and Powa- hay, for the Indians. When it became necessary to procure a suc- cessor to the Rev. Mr. Denton, at Stamford, Francis Bell and George Slauson were appointed to go to Boston, in search of Rev. John Bishop, to preach at Stamford. Though the danger from Indians must have been great, yet they took their provisions and went on foot to Boston, and found him in that neighborhood. He accepted their call and returned on foot with them, with his Bible under his arm, and was settled at Stamford, their second minister, where he preached about forty-nine years, and died in 1693. The Bible he brought with him is now in the possession of one of his descendants. Lt. Francis Bell, John Holly and George Slason, (Slauson,) were the first townsmen at Stamford. Mr. Bell was an important man in the early settlement of Stamford. He was one of the committee to form a union of the two colonies, in 1664. The Bells, Hollys, Laws, Sellecks, Weeds, and many others of the first settlers of Stamford, yet have descendants there. Francis Bell left children at Stamford ;
* Those who signed to settle Stamford, were thirty families, in 1640, " in May to move ; Rev. Rich. Denton, Ma. Mitchell, Thur. Raynor, Rob Coe, Andw Ward, Richd Gildersleeve, Edm Wood, Jon. Wood, Jer. Wood, Samuel Clarks, Thos Weeks. John Woods, Jon Jaggar, Jo. Knapp, Jo. Seaman, Sam. Sherman, Hen. Smith, Vincent Simking, Dan. Finch, Jo. Northend," twenty families. (Stamford.)
In 1641, thirty men at Stamford paid in one hundred bushels of corn, which was after- wards allowed them, in May, 1641, at New Haven, viz., " Sergt Math. Mitchell, 14,3 bushels, Mr. Denton, 04,1, Andrew Ward, 04,1, Ro. Coe, 04,1, Ri. Gildersleeve, 4,0, Ric. Law, 3,2-40, 3. total, Jo. Renould, 3,2, Jo. Whitmore, 3,1, Ri. Bates, 3,1, Rich. Crab, 3,1, Sam. Sherman, 3,1, Jo. V. Piner, 3,1, Dan Finch, 3,0, Jo. Northend, 2,03, Jonas Wood, 2,3, Cim. Wood, 2,2, Jon. Wood, 22, Sam. Clark, 2,2, Francis Bell, 2,2, Jon. Jagar, 2,2, Jeffery Ferris, Tho. Moorhouse," and other names cut off by a red line on the record.
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