Matthias Treat (1652) / Mary (Smith) Treat

Name: Matthias Treat

Birth: England, probably at or near Pitminster, Somersetshire; date unknown. (The Treat Family/Treat, 1893)

Emigration: To New England by 1638 (probably Watertown, Mass.); to Wethersfield, Conn. 1639 (The Treat Family/Treat, 1893); to Middletown before November 1652; back to Wethersfield after selling his Middletown properties in January 1653.(FFS)

Death: July 8, 1662, Wethersfield, Conn.(The Treat Family/Treat, 1893)

Occupation & Public Service: At a town meeting in Middletown, November 1652, Matthias Treat was elected as a surveyor of highways.(FFS)

Marriage: m. Mary Smith, about 1648, Wethersfield, Conn. (b. about 1627, England; d. unknown). Mary Smith was a daughter of Richard Smith & Rebecca (unknown surname) of England, and later, Wethersfield, Conn. (The Treat Family/Treat, 1893)

Children: 6 children between 1649-1662.(MVR, BCVR, New England Families/Cutter, 1913; The Treat Family/Treat, 1893.) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).