Richard Treat

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

Biography

Early life and ancestors

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][2][3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

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:

• George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) served as the 41st President of the United States
• George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) served as the 43rd President of the United States
• Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 - January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist.
• Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Dr. John Franklin Gray (1804–1882), the first practitioner of Homeopathy in the United States.
• Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978) was an American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder.
• Gideon Welles, the United States Secretary of the Navy, 1861–1869.
• William Edwards Deming (1900–1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant
• Treat Williams, an American actor
• C. Loring Brace, an Anthropologist
• Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 — September 29, 1987), president, chairman of the board and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Ford Motor Company.
• John B. Hollister, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American author (The Red Badge of Courage)
• Thomas Edison (1847-1931), American inventor
• John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) an American financier, banker
• Charles H. Treat (1842-1910), Treasurer of the United States from 1905-1909
• Charles W. Woodworth (1865-1940), American entomologist
• Samuel Hubbel Treat, Jr., United States federal judge
• John Hunt Morgan (June 1, 1825 – September 4, 1864) a Confederate general and cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
• Samuel Treat, United States federal judge
• Roger Treat, an American sportswriter and author
• Treat Baldwin Johnson, an American chemist
• Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams, March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright
• John Hay Whitney (27 August 1904 – 8 February 1982), colloquially known as "Jock" Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 - December 13, 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, writer, and government official

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