Richard Treat

Richard Treat (or Trott) (baptised 28 August 1584 – 27 April 1669) was an early settler in New England and a patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.

Their daughter, Honor,[5] married John Deming, an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut.

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.

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 Richard Treat's descendants number in the thousands today.