Richard Treat

Infobox_Politician
name =Richard Treat


birth_date =August 28, 1584
birth_place =Pitminster, England
death_date =February 14, 1669
death_place =Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
office =Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature 1644-1657
Patentee — Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662
spouse = Alice Gaylord

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 [cite book |last=Dexter |first=Franklin Bowditch |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College : With annals of the college history |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1885 |month= |publisher=Holt |location=New York |language=English |isbn= |oclc=1167704 |doi= |id= |pages= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] (over 900 acres) [Treat, John Harvey. "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. Note that Richard's son, Richard Jr., inherited the land and gave most of it away during his lifetime.] and served as town deputy from 1644 to 1648, the year Mary Johnson was convicted of witchcraft and executed. [ [http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/witch.html List of New England witchcraft cases] ] Treat was an original patentee of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut by King Charles II in 1662.

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