The day Bellamy died, the Reverend Ezra Stiles, an Old Light minister and a longtime critic of Bellamy, gave this negative assessment of the man: Web page titled "Determining the Facts: Reading 2: Joseph Bellamy" part of the National Park Service's Web site pages devoted to the Bellamy House, accessed August 22, 2006. For the Stiles quotation, the Web page cites Franklin B. Dexter, ed., The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, Vol. III, January 1, 1782-March 6, 1785 (New York: Charles Scribner%27s Sons, 1901), 384-385.
