Ancestry of
Ben Affleck

Movie Actor

Samuel Belden Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Ben Affleck — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1360 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Belden 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jul 1689 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Dec 1758 
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Center Cemetery, Rocky Hill, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Apr 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Asa Belden (Ahnentafel No:680 )

  • Notes: 

  • Samuel Belden's surname is also seen as Belding.

    Sources disagree on the date of Samuel Belding's death. The dates are either 24 DEC 1758 or 31 JUL 1771. The 24 DEC 1758 date seems more likely as it's based on an inscription of a tombstone near his wife Mary Spencer. She died in 1751.

• Sources for Samuel Belden Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 24, Birth record for Samuel Belden.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 18, Birth record for son Asa Belden.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 24, Marriage record for Samuel Belden and Mary Spencer.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, p. 295.
  • ⁵ Stiles, Henry R., The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut: Comprising the Present . . ., Volume II - Genealogies and Biographies, New York: The Grafton Press (1904), 79, 81.
  • ⁶ Tillotson, Edward Sweetser, Wethersfield Inscriptions: A Complete Record of the Inscriptions in the Five Burial Places in the Ancient Town of . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: William F. J. Boardman (1899), 207.