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Richard Treat, Esq., the immigrant ancestor of the Treat Family of Wethersfield, Conn., s. of Robert & Honora Treat of Pitminster, Somersetshire, England. He was bapt. Aug. 28, 1584 at St. Andrew and St Mary Chh. at Pitminster and d. testate at Wethersfield, Conn. betw. Feb. 13, 1668/9, the date of his will, and Mar. 3, 1669/70 when his will was proved. He is claimed to have d. Feb. 14, 1668/69, the day after he wrote his will, but no document exists that confirms that claim.

On Apr. 27, 1615 at Pitminster, Richard m. Alice Gaylord, the mother of all his children, dau. of Hugh Gaylord. She was bapt. at Pitminster May 10, 1594 and she was living when Richard wrote his will at Wethersfield, Conn.

The Hollister Family in America (Lafayette Wallace Case, 1886, p. 24) errantly claims that Richard Treat had a first wife named Joanna: "Lieut. John Hollister married Joanna, daughter of Hon. Richard Treat, Sr., and his first wife Joanna." Joanna (Treat) Hollister, the second child of the family, was baptized three years after the marriage of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylord. Further, the first bequest in Richard Treat's will states: "I give & bequeath to my loving wife Alis Treat after my decease..." Thus, there is no factual support for Richard Treat having had a first wife named Joanna or that Alice Gaylord was not the mother of all of Richard Treat's known children.

Richard & Alice immigrated circa 1637 to New England with all of their children and settled at Wethersfield, Conn. Their children, all bapt. at St. Andrew & St. Mary Chh. at Pitminster, Somersetshire, England, are:

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Richard Treat Sr. was born on 28 Aug 1584 in Trull, Pitminster, Somerset, England. He died on 14 Feb 1669 in Wethersfield, , Connecticut. He was buried in Wethersfield, , Connecticut. He married Alice Gaylord on 27 Apr 1615 in , Pitminster, Somerset, England.

In the ancient church of St. Andrew and St. Mary in the hamlet of South Trundle,parish of Trull,Pitminster, Co. Somerset, Eng., is a Memorial Brass, erected (1903) bearing thefollowing inscription: " In memory of Richard Treat, alias Trott, Baptized inthis Church, Aug. 28, 1584, who emigrated to New England with his family , in1637, and was one of the Patentees of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut,by King Charles II, in 1662. His son, Robert Treat, was baptized February 25th,1624 and was Deputy Governor and Governor of the Colony, for 30 years. ThisBrass was erected, in 1902, by their descendant John Harvey Treat, of America."

There seems to be some discrepancy as to Richard Treat's wife. In the HollisterFamily of America compiled by Lafayette Case on page 28, "He married first,Joanna, by whom he had several children, among whom were Robert, governor ofConnecticut for many years, and Joanna, wife of Lieut John Hollister. Hissecond wife Alice survived him, and is mentioned in his will. He died in 1669."However in Ancient Wethersfield, Conn. by Henry R. Stiles, Vol II onGenealogies and Biographies, page 711, "...m. in Eng.(under the name of Trett)27 Apl., 1615, Alice (dau. Hugh) Gaylord, of P., b. 1594. Their ch. were all b.in Eng.--under the name of Trott and Tratt."

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HON. RICHARD TREAT, SR.Richard Treat, Sr., was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, and represented that town in the first general court in 1637. He was appointed in 1642 by the general court, in connection with Gov. Wyllys, Messrs. Haines, Hopkins, Whiting, and others, to superintend building a ship, and to collect a revenue for that object. In 1643 he was a colonial grand juror, and in 1644 a member of the general court to which he was several times re‰lected. From 1658 to 1665, he was an assistant magistrate of the colony and was named in the royal charter of Charles II. as one of the patentees. He was one of the collectors of the Fenwick tax and of the fund for the support of students in the college at Cambridge.
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Richard Treat (or Trott) (1584 - 1669) was an early New England settler who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. His son, Robert Treat, served as governor of Connecticut from 1683 to 1698. Treat was an extensive landowner in Wethersfield, Connecticut(over 900 acres and served as town deputy from 1644 to 1648, the year Mary Johnson was convicted of witchcraft and executed, Treat was an original patentee of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut by King Charles II in 1662.

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This story is extracted from the book, "The Treat Family," by John Harvey Treat.

The Honorable Richard Treat was born 1616 in Pitminister, Somerset, England the son of Robert and Honoria Trott. He died on 17 Apr 1669 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was an early New England settler who emigrated from Pitminister to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1637, he was one of the earliest settlers in Wethersfield, Connecticut and became an extensive landowner (over 900 acres).

He represented Wethersfield in the first general court in 1637. He was appointed by the general court in connection with Governor George Wyllys, Messrs. Haines, Hopkins, Whiting and others to superintend the building of a ship and to collect revenue for that project. On 25 Oct 1644, he and Mr Wells were the committed and revenue collectors of the Fenwick Tax, a fund to support students in the college at Cambridge. He was admitted as a Freeman in 1645. On the Freeman list only 3 besides Richard Treat had the title Mr. and he bore that title as early as 1642.

He was named in the Royal Charter issued by Charles II as one of the original Patentees of the Charter of Colony of Connecticut of 1662. He was deputy nineteen times from 1646-1665, and had the title of Mr. He was elected assistant magistrate of the Colony eight times. In 1654, he was chosen on a committee to lay out lands granted by the town and in 1660, he was elected Townsman, an official answering to the present Selectmen. He was also Constable in 1660.

He married 27 Apr 1615 at Pitminister, England, Alice Gaylord, born 10 May 1594 in Pitminister, England. She was the daughter of Hugh and Joanna Gaylord. She died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. When she died is not known, but she survived her husband, Richard. The tradition that Alice was his second wife, and that the name of his first wife was Joanna, who was the mother of his children, has proved upon investigation, to be unfounded.

Richard and Alice were the parents of 12 children. Their children were baptized by the names of Trott and Tratt, but Richard was called Treat when he died. Their son Robert Treat (1622-1710) served as Governor of Connecticut from1683 to 1698. Their daughter, Joanna, was the wife of Lieutenant John Hollister. Their daughter, Susanna, was the wife of Robert Webster, the son of Governor John Webster. Their daughter, Honora, married John Deming, an early Puritan settler and original Patentee on the Royal Charter of Connecticut.

His will was written 26 Jan 1690 and probated in 1705.

A brass tablet in the ancient church of South Trendle, parish of Trull, Pitminister, England, bears the following inscription, "In memory of Richard Treat, alias Trott, Baptized in this Church, Aug 28, 1584, who emigrated to New England with his family, 1637, and was created one of the Patentees of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut by King Charles II in 1662. His son, Robert Treat, baptized February 25th, 1624, and was Deputy Governor and Governor of Connecticut for 30 years." This brass plaque was erected in 1902, by their descendant, John Harvey Treat of America."

The East window of the churh was dedicated by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Reverend George Leonard Cary, on 2 Jul 1989. It was given the people and friends of the Pitminister church including descendants of Richard Trott in the United States of America under the leadership of the Honorable William W. Treat.

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BornAugust 28, 1584Pitminster, EnglandDiedFebruary 14, 1669Wethersfield, Connecticut, USASpouseAlice GaylordChildrenHonor TreatJoanna TreatSarah TreatRichard TreatRobert TreatElizabeth TreatSusanna TreatAlice TreatJames TreatKatherine TreatReligionCongregationalist
Richard Treat was baptized in this Pitminster, England church on August 28, 1584

Richard Treat (or Trott) (1584 - 1669) was an early New England settler and a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
Early life

He was baptized on August 28, 1584 in Pitminster, Somerset County, England, the son of Robert and Honoria Trott, and died on 27 April 27, 1669 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. He was an early New England settler who emigrated from Pitminster, England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637.[1]Marriage and family

He married on April 27, 1615, at Pitminster, Somerset County, England, Alice Gaylord, born May 10, 1594 at Pitminster, Somerset County, England and died at Wethersfield, Hartford County Connecticut. She was the daughter of Hugh Gaylord and Joanna.

Richard and Alice were the parents of twelve children. Their son, Robert Treat (1622 - 1710), served as governor of Connecticut from 1683 to 1698. Their daughter, Joanna, was the wife of Lieut. John Hollister.[2] Their daughter, Susanna, was the wife of Robert Webster, the son of John Webster (governor). His daughter, Honor, married John Deming, an early Puritan settler and original Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut.[3] Career

He was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1637 and was an extensive landowner in the town (over 900 acres). He represented Wethersfield in the first general court in 1637. He was appointed in 1642 by the general court, in connection with Gov. George Wyllys, Messrs. Haines, Hopkins, Whiting, and others, to superintend building a ship, and to collect a revenue for that object.

In the list of Freeman (Colonial) of Wethersfield for 1659, only three besides Richard Treat, Sr., are styled Mr., and he bore that title as early as 1642, and perhaps earlier. Mr. Treat must have been a man of high social standing and of much influence in the town of Wethersfield, and in the colony of Connecticut. This is evident from the various positions of trust occupied by him.

He was chosen a juror, June 15, 1643,— a high position then, generally occupied only by the most prominent persons, and grand juror, on September 15th of the same year.

In April, 1644, he was chosen deputy, and was annually elected for fourteen years, up to 1657-8. From 1658 to 1665, he was elected assistant magistrate of the colony eight times, and was named in the royal charter of Charles II as one of the original patentees of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut. On Oct. 25,1644, he and Mr. Wells were the committee and the revenue collectors of the Fenwick tax a fund for the support of students in the college at Cambridge. In 1654, he was chosen on a committee to lay out lands granted by the town and in 1660, he was elected a townsman, an office answering to the present selectmen

Descendants

Richard Treat's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include:

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John B. Hollister, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
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Thomas Edison (1847-1931), American inventor
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Samuel Hubbel Treat, Jr., United States federal judge
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Robert TROTT TREAT. Died Feb 1598/99. Son of Richard TROTT TREAT and Joanna (Mrs Ri Trott) ---. Married Honora (Mrs R Trott) ---, died Sep 1627. "Robert Trott ..... baptized probably in the hamlet of Trendle, now Trull, parish of Pitminster; bur. Feb. 16, 1599, in Pitminster. ..... Children, baptized in Pit- minster: 1. ALICE, bapt. Feb. 4, 1564. 2. JOHN, bapt. Sept. 10, 1570; bur. May 7, 1633; m. April 24, 1598, Edith Priest. 3. MARY, bapt. Feb. 6, 1575; bur. ---; m. Oxt. 8, 1597, Robert Babb, widower. son of Richard Aplin. ..... TAMSEN, bapt. May 16, 1581. 6. RICHARD, bapt. Aug. 28, 1584; d. --- 1669, Wethers- field, Conn.; m. April 27, 1615, Alice Gaylerd [sic]." ---John Harvey Treat, A. M., *The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America, containing more than Fifteen Hundred Families in America, With Illustrations, Autographs, and a Map of Somersetshire.*, Salem MA (The Salem Press) 1893. From the same, p. 27-8: "The family [parents, etc. of Richard TREAT/TROTT (1)] lived in the hamlet of Trendle, now the parish of Trull, in the parish of Pitminster, a large parish and village 4 1/2 miles south of Taunton, now in the Hundred of Taunton Dean, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The soil is clay and the chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, roots and pasture land. The popu- lation was 1382 in 1881. ..... According to Collinson;s history of Somerset, p. 5, Vol. 1, in 1791, Pitminster comprised five hamlets: Blagson, 47 houses; Leigh, 57 houses; Fulford, 23 hous- es; Trendle (now Trull), 30 houses; Duddleston, 28 houses. The village of Pitminster contained 38 houses, and the whole number of inhabitants was 1036. This manor, anciently called Pipeminstre and Pipplemenstre, is mentioned in the Domesday book, 1086, and was given by King Hardicnute to the church of Winch- ester. In the time of King Stephen, the curch of Pitminster was appropriated to the priory of Taunton, by Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester. It is dedicated to St. Andrew and St. Mary. The present structure is not very ancient but built upon the ruins of one of the Saxon times. It is eight-eight feet long, and forty feet wide, in the perpendicular style, consisting of a chancel, nave, two side aisles, south porch and western tower with a spire and five bells. There are some ancient and richly carved bench- es, a finely carved stone pulpit and reredos, and some very in- teresting altar tombs to the Coles family, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Two of the windows are stained. The sit- tings are for four hundred people. (See frontispiece.) (P) Trull, anciently North and South Trendle, is a parish and village lying between Pitminster and Taunton, two miles south from the latter and on the high road to Honiton. It was formerly in the Hundred of Poundisford, now in that of Taunton Dean. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. In 1881, the population was 960. The church of All Saints formerly belonged to the priory of Taunton. The register of baptisms and burials dates from 1670; marriages, 1677. The earlier ones have been lost. The fabric is built of local stone, of the perpendicular period, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, and an embat- tled western tower of two stages, with pinnacles, and containing six bells. Some of the ancient 16th century benches have very richly carved ends. One represents the ordinary Sunday proces- sion of a small parish church of the period, and includes (1) a boy in short surplice, carrying a cross; (2) a man in fleshed trunk hose and short surplice, carrying a candle or torch; (3) a similar figure, wearing a maniple on the left arm and carrying a reliquary; (4) a man in a long surplice, holding an open book, probably a deacon or second priest; (5) the priest, vested in a fringed nib and embroidered cope, and holding an open book; nei- ther holy water nor incense is shown. Another bench end repre- sents the instruments of the Passion and the figure of a cock; two more bear the letters S and W respectively, the latter letter being upheld on the peaks of two birds; at the back of the fur- therest seat are eight panels, ornamented with the linen pattern and bearing this inscription: "John Waye Clarke here," and "Susan Warman, maker of this worke, Ano Dni 1560." Our ancestors must have sat in these very seats. On the back of the pulpit are fig- ures of St. John the Evangelist, and the four Latin Doctors; there is an ancient screen of carved oak and six stained windows. The church was restored in 1862. (See Kelly's Somerset Directo- ry, 1889, pp. 308, 309, 374.) If the early Trull registers had not perished they would doubtless supply many gaps in the family history." "Robert Trott baptized probably in Trendle, parish of Pitminster; buried February 16, 1599, in Pitminster; married Hon- ora, who was buried September 17, 1627, in Pitminster. He had six children." (Wm F J Boardman, 1906, p 266.) Children of Robert TROTT TREAT and Honora (Mrs R Trott) ---: 1 Richard (1) TREAT. Born Aug 1584, Pitminster, Somerset, England. Died 1669, Wethersfield, CT. Married 27 Apr 1615, Pitminster, Somerset, England, Alice GAYLARD, born ABT 10 May 1594, Pitminster, Somerset, England, died ABT 1670, daughter of Hugh GAYLARD GAYLORD and (Mrs Hugh Gaylard) -----. See general note under ----- HILL, father of Daniel HILL (SR) and Japhet HILL, which describes how Richard TREAT is a common DIRECT ANCESTOR of us and a signer of the Decla- ration of Independence. Specifically, a brother (Gov Robert TREAT) of a DIRECT ANCESTOR (JOANNA TREAT) was a DIRECT AN- CESTOR of a signer of the Declaration of Independence (Robert Treat Paine); otherwise stated, the brother Robert TREAT of our DIRECT ANCESTOR Joanna Treat was maternal great-grandfather of the signer of the Declaration (July 4, 1776). (The Rev. Thomas PAINE is too early to have been *the* Thomas PAINE, but might have been related.) "Richard Treat ..... was born 1584, in Pitminster, probably in the hamlet of South Trendle, now the parish of Trull, Somerset, England; baptized in Pitminster church, Aug. 28, 1584; died ---, 1669-70, in Wethersfield, Conn., was alive Oxt. 11, 1669, and the inventory of his estate was presented to court, March 3, 1669-70; married, April 27, 1615, in Pitmin- ster, ALICE GAYLARD, who was baptized May 10, 1594, in Pit- minster, when her name was spelled Gaylaud, and the daughter of Hugh Gaylard, who was buried Oct. 21, 1614, in Pitmin- ster, and whose will is recorded in the Taunton Probate Court in 1614, but has utterly perished. When Alice Treat died is unknown, but she survived her husband. The tradi- tion that Alice was a second wife, and that the name of his first wife was Joanna, who was the mother of Mr. Treat's children, has proved, upon investigation, to be unfounded. ..... (P's) SOCIAL RANK OF RICHARD TREAT. (P) Mr. Treat must have been a man of high scoial standing and of much in- fluence in the town of Wethersfield, and in the colony of Connecticut. This is evident from the various positions of trust occupied by him. Titles once meant something. Not ev- ery one, as at the present day, had Esq. attached to their names, Even the prefix Mr. or Master was a mark of impor- tance. It was then a title fully as high as Honorable is now. Generally speaking, not more than five freemen in a hundred had the title of Mr., and very few of the deputies and magistrates. (P) By the General Court of Massachusetts, Sept. 21, 1631, "It is ordered, that Josias Plastowe shall (for stealing 4 basketts of corne from the Indians), returne them 8 basketts againe, be ffined V. and hereafter to be called by the name Josias, & not Mr. as formerly hee vsed to be." (Mass. Records, 1:92.) (P) In the list of freemen of Wethersfield for 1659, only three besides Richard Treat, sr., are styled Mr., and he bore that title as early as 1642, and perhaps earlier. In 1695, out of a list of 114 legal inhabitants of Eastham, Mass., only two have the title of Mr.,---Mr. Sunderland, who was the schoolmaster and held in high respect, and Mr. Treat the minister [presumably some non-related Treat, or a misprint --- Richard Treat (1) and (2) of this database both died before 1695, Lt Thomas Treat of the next generation wasn't a minister, and Richard Treat (3) of this database, who *was* a minister, was born in 1694]. It is said that Mr. Treat was a deputy from Wethers- field as early as 1637, but there is no proof of this so far as I know and it is doubtful whether he was there as early as that. Certainly he is not mentioned as one in the Con- necticut Records before 1644. He was chosen a juror, June 15, 1643, --- a high position then, generally only occupied by the most prominent persons, --- and grand juror, Sept. 15 of the same year (C.C.R. 1:88,93.) (P) In April, 1644, he was chosen deputy, and was annually elected for fourteen years, up to 1657-8 (ib. 1:103). He was elected assistant, or magistrate, eight times, from March 11, 1657-8 to 1665 (ib. 1:310). Oct. 25, 1644, he and Mr. Wells were the com- mittee from Wethersfield to receive money for maintaining scholars at Cambridge (ib. 1:112). In 1654, he was chosen on a committee to lay out lands granted by the town. In 1660, he was a townsman, an office answering to the present selectmen. Oct. 4, 1660, he was appointed to examine Thirty mile Island, a valuable township, thirty miles from the mouth of the Connecticut, with a view to settlement. In 1663, he was appointed to procure a minister. he also held various other offices of honor and trust, which have been mentioned [earlier]. (P) March 14, 1660-1, the General Court of Connecticut applied to King Charles II, for a char- ter for their colony, which was granted April 23, 1662. It was of a very liberal character. Richard Treat, and two of his sons-in-law, John Deming and Matthew Camfield, were among the patentees: "CHARLES THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c,: TO ALL to whome theis shall come, Greet- ing: WHEREAS, by the several Navigations, discoveryes & successfull Plantations of diverse of our loveing Subjects of this our Realme of England, Several Lands, Islands, Places, Colonies and Plantations have byn obtained and set- tled in that parte of the Continent of America called New England, and thereby the Trade and Commerce there hath byn of late yeares much increased, AND WHEREAS, we have byn in- formed by the humble Petition of our Trusty and well beloved John Winthrop, John Mason, Samuel Willis, Henry Clerke, Matthew Allen [i.e., ALLYN, DIRECT ANCESTOR], John Tappan, Nathan Gold, Richard Treate [DIRECT ANCESTOR], Richard Lord, Henry Woolicott, John Talcott [DIRECT ANCESTOR], Daniel Clerke, John Ogden, Thomas Wells [DIRECT ANCESTOR], Obadias Brewen, John Clerk, Anthony Haukins, John Deming [his sister was DIRECT ANCESTOR Elizabeth Deming, and his sister-in-law was DIRECT ANCESTOR Joanna Treat] and Matthew Camfield, be- ing Persons Principally interested in our Colony or Planta- tion of Connecticut in New England, that the same Colony or the greatest parte thereof was purchased and obteyned for greate and valuable Considerations, And some other parte thereof gained by Conquest, and with much difficulty, and att the only endeavors, expence and Charge of them and their Associates, and those under whome they Clayme, Subdued and improved, and thereby become a considerable enlargement and addition of our Dominions and interest there, --- NOW KNOW YEA" &c. (C.C.R. 2:3-11.) (P) He was a member of Gover- nor Winthrop's Council, Dec. 17, 1663, and July 1, 1664 (ib. 15:388). (P) Mr. Treat was also a man of considerable wealth for those times and an extensive land owner in Wethersfield. At the laying out of the Naubuc farms, which consisted of lands on the east side of the Connecticut riv- er, within the limits of what was then Wethersfield, but now Glastonbury, in 1640, or as early as 1639, the town gave him a large tract of land, lot No. 36, 310 rods wide by the riv- er, computing south from Roaring Brook, and extending back a long ways into the wilderness, some three miles. The exact size of this lot is not known, but is supposed to have con- tained about 900 acres. It was called the "farm of Nayog," and long known as the "Treat farm." Richard Treat, jr., in- herited this farm. He also bought several homesteads ..... He gave away much of his property while alive. One of the lots which he owned in 1641, remained in the family down to about 1855. It was on Broad street. No one by the name of Treat now (1890) lives in Wethersfield." ---John Harvey Treat, *The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for Fifteen Generations, and Four Hundred and Fifty Years in England and America, containing more than Fifteen Hundred Families in America*, Salem, MA (Salem Press) 1893, p. 26-29 "RICHARD TROTT or TREAT, baptized at Pitminster [co. Somerset, England], 28 Aug. 1584, died at Wethersfield, Conn., (before 3 Mar.) 1669/70; married at Pitminster, 27 Apr. 1615, ALICE GAYLARD, baptized at Pitminster, 10 May 1594, died after 1670, daughter of Hugh Gaylard. (P) his children were baptized by the names of Trott and Tratt, and he was called Treat when he died." He signed documents with the spellings Treat and Treate. Winthrop referred to him in 1669 as Mr. Richard Treat, senior, above 80 years. But in 1657 he noted Elizabeth Treat, 1 1/2 years, a daughter of "Mathias Treat alias Trott---a Kinsman of Mr. Trott." These entries show Winthrop's knowledge of the shift in spelling the name, and confirm the opinion of the compiler of *The Treat Family* that Mathhias Treat of Wethersfield was a rel- ative of Mr. Richard Treat. (P) Alice Gaylard (Gaylord, Gaylaud) was daughter of Hugh Gaylard who appears in Taunton Manor Registers as early as 1573, and was buried at Pitmin- ster, 21 Oct. 1614. He was probably son of Nicholas and Jo- hane Gaylard, and by 1608 had an adult son George. (P) Richard Trotte appears in the Taunton Manor Registers, which show that in 1600 he held land by surrender (because of death) of Robert Trotte, Honora relict of said Robert to hold during her widowhood. The family lived in the hamlet of Trendle (now the parish of Trull), in the large parish of Pitminster, less than five miles south of Taunton. Here all his children were born. (P) He emigrated after the baptism of his youngest child in June 1637, and was living in Wethersfield, Conn., by 1641, when entry of his land hold- ings was made there. He served as Deputy for Wethersfield to the General Court at the sessions of Apr. and Sept. 1644, Apr., Sept. and Dec. 1645, Apr. and Oct. 1646, May and Sept. 1647, May and Sept. 1648, May and Sept. 1649, May and Oct. 1650, May and Sept. 1651, May and Sept. 1652, May and Sept. 1653, May and Sept. 1654, May and Oct. 1655, May 1656, Feb., May and Oct. 1657; and as Assistant of the Colony from May 1658 to May 1665, He was named as a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut in 1662. of his estate was taken 3 March 1669/70. His will gave to his wife, "Alis Treat," all lands in Wethersfield, two cows, and a bed, bed- ding and household goods. To his eldest son, Richard Treat, he confirmed the farm at "Nayog." To his second son, Robert Treat, #10 [pounds]. To his youngest son, James Treat, in addition to all lands given him, "my mill & grinding stone fann Timber Chaines, stillyars & my little bible." To his son-in-law, Matthew Campfield, #20 [pounds]. To daughter Hollister, 40s. To daughter Johnson, 10s. To sons [by mar- riage] John Demon (Deming) and Robert Webster, the remainder of his goods and chattels; his great Bible to his daughter Honour Demon. He mentions cousin [the husband of a grand- daughter] Samuel Wells and cousin [granson] David Deming, son of John Demon, Sr. His son-in-law John Demon, Robert Webster and Richard Treat to be overseers." Among his chil- dren: i. HONOR, bapt. 19 Mar. 1615/16; m. JOHN DEMING of Wethersfield, Conn., who d. perhaps late in 1694, certainly before 25 Apr. 1695. He was Deputy, Dec. 1645, Oct. 1646, Sept. 1649, May 1650, May and Sept. 1651, May and Sept. 1652, Apr. and Oct, 1653, Apr. 1654, May 1655, Oct. 1656, Feb. and May 1657, May and Oct. 1658, May and Oct. 1659, May and Oct. 1660, May and Oct. 1661, Oct. 1667, May and Oct. 1668, May 1669, and Oct. 1672; and in 1662 was named Paten- tee of the Royal Charter. He was brother of Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Foote, and afterward the second wife of Gov. Thomas Welles; her will, appointing him an overseer of her estate, called him "my beloved Brother." Is is doubtful whether Honor Treat was the first wife of John Deming, or mother of the elder children, John, Sarah, and Jonathan; she was certainly mother of the seven other children. ii. "JOANNA, bapt. 24 May 1618; d. at Wethersfield, abt. Oct. 1694; m. (say 1639) Lieut. JOHN HOLLISTER ... B. in Eng- land, abt 1612, d. at Wethersfield, Apr. 1665." ---Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, *Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley*, Hartford, CT (Connecticut Historical Society) 1952, p. 764-765. "RICHARD [TREAT], Wethersfield, is one of the very few early sett. whom we can find no trace of in Mass., where he may have been a serv. or apprent. yet it is said that he was a rep. in the first Gen. Ct. 1637, tho. that is not prob. for in Trumbull's Col. rec. I find not his name in that relat. was chos. an Assist. 1658 to 65, but not after the union with New Haven in that yr. He was nam. in the Royal Chart, of 23 Apr. 1662, for junct. of the two Cols. and rem. to Milford, only, I suppose, to estab. his s. Robert at that settlem. for he is counted on the list of freem. at W[ethersfield] 1669. In this yr. he d. hav. nade his will of 13 Feb of the same, names without suffic. par- ticular. of the ds [dates?]. his w. Alice and ch. perhaps all b. in Eng. Richard; Robert, b. a. 1622; James, a. 1634; Honor, m. a. 1637, John Deming the first; Joanna, w. of John Hollister [DIRECT ANCESTORS]; Sarah, m. a. 1644, Matthew Campfield; Susanna, m. a. 1652, Robert Webster of Middle- town; and one, Catharine, wh. m. 19 Nov. 1655, William Thompson of New Haven, tho. by Chapin, Glastonbury, 185, the name is giv. Johnson, wh. may have been sec. h. beside cous. Samuel Wells; and gr.s. call. cons. Daniel Deming. His wid. was not the mo. of the childr. it is suppos. bec. he is said to have brot. from Eng. w. Joanna." ---James Savage, *A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England*, vol. 4, 1862, p. 326 "Treat, Richard, Wethers- field. In March, 1637, was a member of the lower house of the General Court. He died in 1668-9. His children were, Richard, jr., Robert, James, a daughter Hollister, another who married Matthew Canfield or Camp, another married a Johnson, and two others married Robert Webster, son of Gov. Webster, and John, son of Hon. John Deming, (were mentioned in his will as sons, and shared in his estate). He gave Mr. Perkins's book to his son John Deming. He was a cousin of Samuel Wells, and of John Deming, sen. Some men of distinc- tion by this name. The family ranked high in the colony." ---R. R. Hinman, *Catalogue of the Names of the First Puri- tan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut*; Hartford (E. Gleason) 1846, no. 1, p. 82-83 "RICHARD TREAT, son of Robert Treat (Trott, Tratt, Tratte, Trat, Tret), was born in 1584, in Pitminster, Somerset County, England, and was baptized August 28th of that year. ³ A brass tablet in the ancient church of South Trendle, parish of Trull, Pitminster, bears the following inscription: "In memory of Richard Treat, alias Trott, Baptised in this Church, Aug. 28, 1584, who emigrated to New England with his family, in 1637, and was created one of the Patentees of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut by King Charles II, in 1662. His son, Robert Treat, was baptized February 25th, 1624, and was Deputy Governor and Governor of the Colony for 30 years. This brass was erected in 1902 by their descendant, John Harvey Treat of America." On April 27, 1615, he married in Pitminster, ALICE GAYLARD, baptized May 10, 1594, daughter of Hugh Gaylard. Mr. Treat came to New England in 1637, and it is supposed, settled in Wethersfield, Conn., soon after arriving. In 1641, his first recorded homestead was on the west side of Broad street, at the extreme northern end. ,,,,, A few years lat- er he bought the Mathhew Mitchell homestead on Broad street, the second lot north of Fletcher's Lane. (P) Mr. Treat was one of the prominent men of the Colony. He was chosen Deputy from his town in April, 1644, and annually for the next four years. He was Assistant or Magistrate eight times from March, 1657 to 1665. In 1657, he was Constable, and Townsman in 1660, and probably earlier. He and his son-in- law, Mr. John Deming, were original patentees named in the Charter granted April 23, 1662. His son, Major Robert Treat, of Milford, was Governor of Connecticut as above stated. (P) Richard Treat died between Oct., 1669, and the following March. His widow survived him, but the date of her death has not been found. In his will, dated February 13, 1668, he names his wife Alice, sons Richard, Robert, and James, his sons-in-law, Matthew Campfield, and John Deming, and daughters Honor and Joanna. The inventory of his es- tate, which was exhibited March 3, 1669-70, amounted to #69 [pounds] 10s. 8d. (P) Children of Richard and Alice Treat. I. Honor [see under her neme]. II. Joanna [DIRECT ANCES- TOR, see under her name], bap. May 24, 1618; m. John Hollis- ter; and d. Oct., 1694. III. Sarah, bap. Dec. 3, 1620, m. abt. 1644, Matthew Campfield, of Norwalk and later of Newark, N.J. IV. Richard, bap. Jan. 9, 1622-3; m. abt. 1661, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Coleman; and d. abt. 1693. V. Robert, bap. Feb. 25, 1624-5; m. 1st, Jane, dau. of Edmund Tapp, who d. in 1703; 2nd, Oct. 22, 1705, Mrs. Elizabeth Hollingsworth Bryan, widow of Richard and dau. of Michael Powell; and d. July 12, 1710. VI. Elizabeth, bap. July 25, 1627; m. abt. 1649, George Wolcott. VII. Susanna, bap. Oct. 8, 1629; m. abt. 1652, Lieut. Robert Webster; and d. 1705. VIII. Alice, bap. Feb. 16, 1631-2; bur. in Pitminster, Aug. 2, 1633. IX. James, bap. July 20, 1634; m. Jan. 26, 1665, Rebecca, dau. of John Lattimer; and d. Feb. 12, 1909 [SIC! no doubt 1709 was meant]. X. Katharine, bap. June 29, 1637; m. Nov. 29, 1655, Rev. William Thompson, Jr., of New Haven, and a missionary to the Indians." --- William F. J. Board man, *The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman, Hart- ford, Connecticut, Being His Lineage in All Lines of Descent from the Emigrant Ancestors in New England*, Hartford CT, 1906, p 264-265 "TREAT. This family once numerous, and all desc'd from Richard, the Settler, or Matthias, is now ex- tinct in Weth.; though many of the blood, tho' of other names, are still res. there. The Treats were mostly promi- nent in military and civil affairs --- tho' there were a few who followed the sea." --- Henry R. Stiles, *The History of Ancient Wethersfield*, vol 1, 1904, p 589 "..... RICHARD [TREAT, TROTT, TRATT] *Treat family* ... RICHARD Wethers- field (Conn.) 1641. d. Wethersfield by Jan 1669/70. Mer- chant. Deputy. Patentee of Royal Charter. Son Robert. Governor of Connecticut. DAB. Hale-House 1952; *Register* 58"315 n; *Moore and allied families* 1938; Stiles, *Wethersfield*. ....." --- Meredith B Colket, *Founders of Early American Families*, Cleveland OH 1985, p 318-319.
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