Ancestry of
Howard Dean

79th Governor of Vermont

Richard Belden

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Howard Dean — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3840 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1598 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 22 Aug 1655 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Ackrenden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1622 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England 
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  Samuel Belden (Ahnentafel No:1920 )

  John Belden

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Belden is often claimed to be the son of Sir Francis Baildon of Kippax, Yorkshire. This has been proven to be false. (See TAG 2001, Vol. 76, pp. 20-28)

    Richard Belden is now believed to be the son of Lawrence Beldon who had the only Belden family in Heptonstall around the time of Richard Belden's birth. (See TAG 2001, Vol. 76, pp. 122-128) Evidence is needed to confirm this.

    Richard Belden's surname is also seen as Belding and Beldon.

• Sources for Richard Belden

  • ¹ Connecticut: Early Probate Records, 1635-1750, Vol 1, p. 96, Inventory for estate of Richard Belden.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2001, Vol. 76, pp. 20-23, 122-128.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1969, Vol. 45, pp. 135-136.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 25.
  • ⁵ Mayo, Mary E., ed., Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims: National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Lineage Book III, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company (2011).
  • ⁶ Mayo, Mary E., ed., Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims: National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Lineage Book III, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company (2011), 660.
  • ⁷ Stiles, Henry R., The History of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut: Comprising the Present . . ., Volume II - Genealogies and Biographies, New York: The Grafton Press (1904), 76.

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