He was a member of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1691 and May 1705.
[6][7] He was the brother of Daniel Belden, the early settler of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
[2] On January 16, 1694, he was appointed to a committee to replace the deceased Reverend Thomas Hanford as minister for the town.
[2] In 1708, he was one of the purchasers of Ridgefield, along with Matthew Seymour, Matthias St. John, and Samuel Keeler.
[2] He died in 1713, and his widow, Ruth married John Copp, the town clerk.