Person:Nathaniel Belden (4)

Nathaniel Belden

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m. 10 Nov 1670

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Name	Nathaniel Belden
Alt Name^[1]	Nathaniel Belding
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	26 Jun 1675	Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[1]^[3]	21 Aug 1714	Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 2. Daniel Belding, in Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts: the Times when and the People by whom it was Settled, Unsettled, and Resettled, with a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley; with Genealogies. (Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1895-1896)
2:2:80.

"Nathaniel (Belding), (born) Jan. 26, 1675; cap. Sept. 16, 1696; d. Aug. 21, 1714."
Coleman, Emma L. (Emma Lewis). New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1925)
2:36, 37.

"1696, September 16. … Leaving some to guard the prisoner the rest of the Indians hurried to the village where they attacked the house of Daniel Belding. With three Belding captives, they went up Green River, … thence they 'set away for Canada.' … Nathaniel 'worked for the Holy Sisters.' After Ryswick, 'the Dutch Gentlemen gather^d up w^t captives … they could & returned jun 8 & took Mr. B. and his xdren … & arrived in Albany in about 15 days.'"
↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1920)
265.

"Belden, … Nathaniel, s. of Daniel & Elisabeth, [died] Aug. 21, 1714, in his 39th y."