{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder | name = John Belding | office = Deputy of the<br/>General Assembly<br/>of the<br/>Colony of Connecticut<br/>from Norwalk<ref name="histd">[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=John+Belding&pg=PA77 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]</ref> | term_start = October 1691 | term_end = May 1692 | predecessor = John Platt, Samuel Smith, Andrew Messenger | alongside = James Olmsted | successor = Samuel Hayes, Thomas Betts | office2 = Member of the<br/>House of Representatives<br/>of the<br/>Colony of Connecticut<br/>from Norwalk | term_start2 = May 1705 | term_end2 = October 1705 | predecessor2 = Thomas Betts, Samuel Keeler | alongside2 = Joseph Platt | successor2 = Thomas Betts, Samuel Hanford | birth_date = {{birth date|1650|01|09}}<ref name="col">[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_8661434_000/pages/ldpd_8661434_000_00000398.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left= Selleck, Charles Melbourne, ''Norwalk'', Norwalk, Connecticut: The author, 1896. Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2011. NNC. Columbia University Libraries Electronic Books. 2006.]</ref><ref name="nem">[https://books.google.com/books?id=mOgK8dM9qqUC&dq=John+Belding+norwalk&pg=PA60 New England Marriages Prior to 1700]</ref> | birth_place = Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony | death_date = {{death date and age|1713|11|26|1650|01|09}}<ref name="nem"/> | death_place = Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony | resting_place = | spouse = Ruth Hayes (daughter of Samuel Hayes,<ref name="add">[https://books.google.com/books?id=cjVKAAAAMAAJ&dq=Lieutenant+John+Belden+Belding+norwalk&pg=PA33 Charles Melbourne Selleck, ''Address'']</ref> | children = John, Jr., Samuel, Ruth (d. 1704, buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery), Ann Belding Bush<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004559/http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/wp-docs/Norwalk.pdf Norwalk]}}</ref> | occupation = merchant<ref name="add"/> | rank = Lieutenant <ref name="add"/> | battles = King Philip's War<ref name="add"/> }}
'''John Belding''' (also recorded as '''John Beldon''' or '''John Belden''') (January 9, 1650 – November 26, 1713) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a member of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1691 and May 1705.
He was most likely the son of William Belding and Thomasine Sherwood,<ref name="col"/> although at least one record shows his father as John Belding of Wethersfield.<ref name="ahr">[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwYCAAAAYAAJ&q=belding&pg=PA18 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut]</ref><ref name="conofps">[https://books.google.com/books?id=dt7CGDD0PsgC&q=Belding&pg=PA114 A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut]</ref> He was the brother of Daniel Belden, the early settler of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
He is recorded as living in Norwalk as early as 1673.<ref name="col"/><ref name="add"/>
On April 30, 1690, he was appointed to a committee to fortify the meeting house.<ref name="col"/>
On January 16, 1694, he was appointed to a committee to replace the deceased Reverend Thomas Hanford as minister for the town.<ref name="col"/>
In 1708, he was one of the purchasers of Ridgefield, along with Matthew Seymour, Matthias St. John, and Samuel Keeler.<ref name="col"/>
He died in 1713, and his widow, Ruth married John Copp, the town clerk.<ref name="col"/>
== Notable descendants == * Grandfather of Thomas Belden, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Belding, John}} Category:1650 births Category:1713 deaths Category:American Puritans Category:Deputies of the Connecticut General Assembly (1662–1698) Category:Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Category:Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut Category:People from Wethersfield, Connecticut Category:People of King Philip's War