Eunice CHESTER

Eunice married Rev. Elisha WILLIAMS on 23 Feb 1714. Elisha (son of Rev William WILLIAMS and Elizabeth COTTON) was born on 26 Aug 1694; died on 25 Jul 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary TREAT on 10 Dec 1684. Mary (daughter of Richard TREAT, Jr. and Sarah COLEMAN) was born on 8 Oct 1666 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 1 Jan 1748 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Richard Treat, Esq. of Wethersfield, Conn.

John married Sarah WELLES in Feb 1653. Sarah (daughter of Gov. Thomas WELLES and Alice TOMES) was born in 1632 in Essex County, England; died on 16 Dec 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 12 Dec 1698

Notes:

Name:
Mr. Treat was the oldest son of Richard Treat. By his father's will in 1668/9, he inherited the great farm of Nayog, or Nayoug, of some 900 acres.

This was long called the "Treat Farm," situated in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and some position remained in the family to the present generation. March 11, 1657/8, Mr. Treat was chosen corporal of the Train Band in Wethersfield, the first body of cavalry in Connecticut. He is supposed to have died between Feb., 1690 and 1693, as his name appears in a petition of the former date for the incorporation of Glastonbury, but does not appear in a similar document in 1693.

Richard married Sarah COLEMAN about 1661. Sarah (daughter of Thomas COLEMAN and Frances ALBRIGHT) was born about 1642; died on 23 Aug 1734 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leonard married Mary ? about 1634. Mary was born about 1608 in England; died on 30 Nov 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Between 1637 and 1660; Chosen As Magistrate
• Occupation: 1639; Elected treasurer of the colony
• Occupation: 1643; Elected secretary
• Occupation: 1649; Commissioner to represent Connecticut in the confederation of New England colonies
• Occupation: 1654; Acting governor
• Occupation: 1655; Governor
• Occupation: 1656; Deputy governor
• Occupation: 1658; Governor
• Occupation: 1659; Deputy governor

Notes:

Name:
He was among the fist settlers of Hartford, coming probably from Cambridge, for 8 Feb 1635/6, "Thos. Wells" owned a house there, (Starr's Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, I, p. 221.) and he was made Freeman May 17, 1637. (Col. Hist. of Hartford, Love, p. 32.) Was also an early settler of Wethersfield, removing thither in 1646, and an original proprietor at both places. At Wethersfield he bought a house and 18 acres of Mr. John Plumb. He was a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut in 1637, which office he held every successive year until 1654, when he was chosen deputy governor. Besides holding other offices, he was elected governor in 1655 and as this office could not be held by the same man in consecutive terms, he was again elected deputy governor in 1656/7 and governor in 1658; deputy governor in 1659, which position he held at his death. He was first treasurer of the Colony 1639, and secretary of the Colon from 1640 to 1648. In 1649, 1654 and 1659, he was commissioner of the United Colonies. Trumbull includes him in a list of twelve men whom he calls the civil and religious fathers of Connecticut.

The information here given concerning the parentage of Governor Wells and the name of his wife was obtained from pleadings in a chancery suit brought in 1648 by John Welles of Tidmington, (Nephew ofGovernor) and his son Robert, a minor, against the grantees of land in Burmington, Warwickshire, conveyed by Thomas Welles of Hartford, Conn., in 1638. The pleadings show that the property in dispute at one time belonged to Robert Welles, father of the Governor. It seems probable, therefore, that the family home was in Burmington or one of the neighboring parishes.

Thomas married Alice TOMES in 1618 in England. Alice died about 1640 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: ? Hunt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Robert and Honora/Honour Trott

Notes:

Name:
"Hale, House and Related Families": "He was baptized under the name of Trott, married under the name of Trett; his children were baptized by the names of Trott and Tratt, and he was called Treat when he died." He signed documents with the spellings Treat and Treate. Winthrop referred to him in 1669 as Mr. Richard Treat, senior above 80 years. But in 1657 he noted Elizabeth Treat, 1 1/2 years, a daughter of "Mathias Treat alias Trott - a Kinsman of Mr. Trott." These entries show Winthop's knowledge of the shift in spelling the name, and confirm the opinion of the compiler of "The Treat Family" that Matthias Treat of Wethersfield was a relative of Mr. Richard Treat.

Alice Gaylard(Gaylord, Gaylaud) was daughter of Hugh Gaylard who appears in Taunton manor Registers as early as 1573, and was buried at Pitminister, 21 Oct 1614. He was probably son of Nicholas and Johane Gaylard, and by 1608 had an adult son George.

Richard Trotte appears in the Taunton manor Registers, which show that in 1600 he held land by surrender (because of death) of Robert Trotte, Honora relict of said Robert to hold during her widowhood. The family lived in the hamlet of Trendle (now the parish of Trull), in the large parish of Pitminster, less than five miles south of Taunton. Here all his children were born.

He emigrated after the baptism of his youngest child in June 1637, and was living in Wethersfield, Conn., by 1641, when entry of his land holdings was made there. He served as Deputy for Wethersfield to the General Court at the sessions of Apr. and Sept. 1644, Apr., Sept. and Dec. 1645, Apr and Oct. 1646, May and Sept 1647, May and Sept. 1648, May and Sept. 1649, May and Oct 1650, May and Sept. 1651, may and Sept. 1652, May and Sept. 1653, May and Sept. 1654, may and Oct. 1655, May 1656, Feb, May and Oct, 1657; and as Assistant of the Colony from May 1658 to May 1665. He was named as Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut in 1662.

Richard married Alice GAYLARD on 27 Apr 1615. Alice was christened on 10 May 1594 in Pitminster, England; died after 1670 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Removed to Hadley, where he was a first settler
• Immigration: 1639, Came from Evesham, England to Wethersfield, Connecticut
• Fact: 1661, Freeman

Thomas married Frances ALBRIGHT between 1638 and 1639 in England. Frances (daughter of Richard ALBRIGHT and UNKNOWN) was born about 1600 in Prob. Welford-on-Avon, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, England Worcestershire, England; died in Mar 1678 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Frances came to New England with her second husband, Thomas Coleman.