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Hepzibah <I>Buell</I> Welles Belden

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Hepzibah Buell Welles Belden

Birth
Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Death
29 Feb 1704 (aged 54)
Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Hepzibad's 2nd husband was Daniel Belden (Belding) born 20 Nov 1648 • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died 14 Aug 1731 • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. They were married 17 Feb 1699 • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts after the death of both of their spouses.

Hepzibah was not killed the night of the 1704 attack or while she was still in Deerfield, she was killed days later after tiring while already on the way to Canada.

Also the details about Hepzibah surviving being scalped during the 1696 attack that are currently stated in the details listed on her memorial are incorrect. Hepzibah & Daniel Belding were married on February 16, 1699, it was Daniel's first wife Elizabeth (Foote) Belding that was attacked in 1696 and she did not survive.

Information below was copied from Ancestry and lists sources that confirm details of Hepzibah's death:

HEPZIBAH (Buell) (Wells) BELDING is killed by her captors (4 Mar 1704)

Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield
by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney; University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst and Boston), 2003.

Accessed on line via Google Books (16 Jun 2016) by Hepzibah's 10th great-grand-nephew, Billy Eugene Wagner II, at https://books.google.com/books?id=wtI8_bKSKrYC&dq=Hepzibah+Belding&q=Hepzibah+Belding#v=snippet&q=Hepzibah%20Belding&f=false

-----Text (in Chapter "Retreat"), p. 135:
"As Stephen Williams later remembered it, 'they traveled (we thought) as if they Designed to kill us all for they traveled 35 or 40 miles a day,' though in fact they covered only about a dozen miles on the fourth day." . . . "The next day, the fourth of March and the fifth day of the trek, the army covered eighteen miles. The raiders 'traveled with such speed that four women were tired and slain by them who led them captive.' All of these women were older married women: fifty-four-year-old Hepzibah Belding, sixty-four-year-old Mary Frary, thirty-six-year-old Mehitabel Nims, and twenty-nine-year-old Hannah Carter, who had already seen two of her daughters die on the march." (cites to Endnote 20)
Endnote 20 was not on this Google Books preview, but is likely a bibliography source reference.

---Appendix B, "Status of Deerfield Residents," p. 280:
This lists Hepzibah's second husband, Daniel Belding, as holding "10" shares in Deerfield (= real estate holdings), and "150 pounds" as value of property lost in the raid, and "1" as the number of captured family members who died on the trek to Canada. That, alas, refers to Hepzibah . . .

---Appendix D, "List of the 1704 Deerfield Captives," p. 283:
"Hepzibah Belding, 54, Killed on the march."

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Parents:
William Buel
Mary Post

Spouse:
Thomas Wells
Daniel Belding

Children:

Noah Wells (1666 – 1712)
Mary Wells (1675 – 1693)
Daniel Wells (1675 – 1720)
Thomas Wells (1678 – 1750)
Elezer Wells (1680 – 1723)
John Wells (1686 – 1709)
Hepzibah Welles (1688 – 1773)
Ephraim Welles (1699 – 1786)
Hepzibad's 2nd husband was Daniel Belden (Belding) born 20 Nov 1648 • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, died 14 Aug 1731 • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts. They were married 17 Feb 1699 • Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts after the death of both of their spouses.

Hepzibah was not killed the night of the 1704 attack or while she was still in Deerfield, she was killed days later after tiring while already on the way to Canada.

Also the details about Hepzibah surviving being scalped during the 1696 attack that are currently stated in the details listed on her memorial are incorrect. Hepzibah & Daniel Belding were married on February 16, 1699, it was Daniel's first wife Elizabeth (Foote) Belding that was attacked in 1696 and she did not survive.

Information below was copied from Ancestry and lists sources that confirm details of Hepzibah's death:

HEPZIBAH (Buell) (Wells) BELDING is killed by her captors (4 Mar 1704)

Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield
by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney; University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst and Boston), 2003.

Accessed on line via Google Books (16 Jun 2016) by Hepzibah's 10th great-grand-nephew, Billy Eugene Wagner II, at https://books.google.com/books?id=wtI8_bKSKrYC&dq=Hepzibah+Belding&q=Hepzibah+Belding#v=snippet&q=Hepzibah%20Belding&f=false

-----Text (in Chapter "Retreat"), p. 135:
"As Stephen Williams later remembered it, 'they traveled (we thought) as if they Designed to kill us all for they traveled 35 or 40 miles a day,' though in fact they covered only about a dozen miles on the fourth day." . . . "The next day, the fourth of March and the fifth day of the trek, the army covered eighteen miles. The raiders 'traveled with such speed that four women were tired and slain by them who led them captive.' All of these women were older married women: fifty-four-year-old Hepzibah Belding, sixty-four-year-old Mary Frary, thirty-six-year-old Mehitabel Nims, and twenty-nine-year-old Hannah Carter, who had already seen two of her daughters die on the march." (cites to Endnote 20)
Endnote 20 was not on this Google Books preview, but is likely a bibliography source reference.

---Appendix B, "Status of Deerfield Residents," p. 280:
This lists Hepzibah's second husband, Daniel Belding, as holding "10" shares in Deerfield (= real estate holdings), and "150 pounds" as value of property lost in the raid, and "1" as the number of captured family members who died on the trek to Canada. That, alas, refers to Hepzibah . . .

---Appendix D, "List of the 1704 Deerfield Captives," p. 283:
"Hepzibah Belding, 54, Killed on the march."

********
Parents:
William Buel
Mary Post

Spouse:
Thomas Wells
Daniel Belding

Children:

Noah Wells (1666 – 1712)
Mary Wells (1675 – 1693)
Daniel Wells (1675 – 1720)
Thomas Wells (1678 – 1750)
Elezer Wells (1680 – 1723)
John Wells (1686 – 1709)
Hepzibah Welles (1688 – 1773)
Ephraim Welles (1699 – 1786)


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