Richard TREAT

                   SOURCES:
    1. 1997 Ordinance Index
    2. 1998 Ancestral File
    3. Main Archive Record

"Lieut. Thomas Treat ..... born Dec. 12, 1668, in Wethersfield,Conn.; died Jan. 17, 1712-3, in Glastonbury, Conn.; married July 5,1693. DOROTHY BULKLEY, born about 1622, died ---, 1757, and daughter of Rev. Gershom and Sarah (Chauncey) Bulkley. Mr. Treat was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of Glastonbury, Feb. 13, 1690, and in 1691, assisted in the formation of that town. In May, 1711, he was appointed lieutenant of the Train Band. ..... In 1703, 1706,1707, and 1712, he was a deputy to the General Court. ..... March 9,1710-11, at a meeting of the Governor and Council, the following resolution was passed: "*Ordered* that Lt. Thomas Treat of Glassenbury, be paid thirty shillings by the treasurer, for his extraordinary labour and science as interpreter, and in managing the Indians, who served in the expedition to Wood Creek." (P) The inventory of Mr. Treat's estate, taken April 3, 1713, amounted to#770, 6s [pounds]. He was commonly called "Thomas Treat of Nayaug," and inherited from his father in 1693 the large farm left by his grandfather Richard. His name was sometimes spelled Trat. His will is dated June 13, 1706, when about to go in the service against Canada. In it he requests that his son Richard, if he recovers from his malady, might be brought up at college, which was done. His widow Dorothy was appointed administrator, March 2, 1712-3." John Harvey Treat, *The Treat Family*, Salem MA (Salem Press)1893, p. 36-7