Richard Trott

Bef 1584 - Aft 1669  (> 85 years)

• Name	Richard Trott  [1]
  Birth	Bef 28 Aug 1584	Pitminster, Somerset, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	28 Aug 1584	Pitminster, Somerset, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1669	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [5]
  Death	Aft Sep 1669	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 4]
  Alternate death	Bef 3 Mar 1670	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I17516	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Trott   d. Bef 16 Feb 1599, Pitminster, Somerset, England
  Mother	Honora   d. Bef 17 Sep 1627, Pitminster, Somerset, England
  Family ID	F9039	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Gaylard,   b. Bef 10 May 1594, Pitminster, Somerset, England d. Aft 1670 (Age > 77 years)
  Marriage	27 Apr 1615  [6]
  Children	+ 1. Honor Treat,   b. Bef 19 Mar 1616, Pitminster, Somerset, England d. Bef 1693, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age < 76 years) + 2. Richard Treat,   b. Bef 9 Jan 1622   d. Abt 1693, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 70 years)   3. Robert Treat, Governor of Connecticut,   b. 23 Feb 1624, Pitminster, Somerset, England d. 12 Jul 1710, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F9030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was one of the patentees in Connecticut's royal charter in 1662. He owned a great deal of land in and around Wethersfield and frequently held various public offices. He is consistently styled "Mr." in public documents. Descendants asserted in his Wikipedia article include Stephen Crane, Thomas Edison, Samuel Colt, and J. Pierpont Morgan. He was baptized under the name Trott, married as Trett. His children were baptized as Trott and Tratt. He was called Treat at his death. From Wikipedia: 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. He was chosen a juror, June 15, 1643 and grand juror, on September 15 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2290] Paul W. Prindle, "Honor Treat, Wife of John Deming: Mother of Which of His Children?" The American Genealogist 62:140, 1987. [S2291] Paul W. Prindle, "The Ancestry of Anna Hurlburt (ca. 1787- ), Wife of Samuel Root." The American Genealogist 62:129, 1987., year and place only. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S655] Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut by Frank Farnsworth Starr. Hartford, Connecticut, 1915. [S1993] The Benjamin Families from Columbia County, New York by R. M. Benjamin. Bloomington, Illinois: Pantagraph, 1911. [S2292] Benjamin H. Gaylord, "The English Ancestry of Deacon William Gaylord: New Light and Observations." The American Genealogist 58:218, 1982.