(1)  Richard Treat, born 28 August 1584 in Pitminster, Suffolk Co., England, died 27 April 1669 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; married Alice Gaylord, born 10 May 1594 at Pitminster, Suffolk Co., England, died 1670/1680 at Wethersfield, Connecticut, daughter of Nicholas Gaylord, buried at Pitminster on 21 October 1614, and his wife Joanna.
 

        (2)  Richard Treat, born 1622 in Somerset, England, died 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; married in 1661 Sarah Coleman, died 23 August 1734, age 92, at the home of her son-in-law Capt. Ephraim Goodrich at Rocky Hill. Richard inherited his father's farm at Glastonbury, Connecticut.  Parents of:
 
 

        (3)  Lt. Thomas Treat, commonly called "Thomas Treat of Nayaug," was born 12 December 1668 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 28 January 1711/1712 in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut; married 5 July 1693 Dorothy Bulkeley, born 1662 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 1757.  his name was sometimes spelled "Tratt."
        In 1693, he inherited his father's farm, which formerly belonged to his grandfather.  Thomas was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of Glastonbury. The inventory of his estate, taken 3 April 1713 totalled 700 pounds 6 shillings.
        Thomas and Dorothy were parents of:
 
 

        (4)  Rev. Richard Treat, born 14 May 1694 in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died about 1757; married 7 August 1728 Susanna Woodbridge, baptized 6 February 1703 at Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 10 May 1778, daughter of a Harvard graduate and founder of Yale.
        Richard Treat graduated at Yale 1719, and served as minister at Stonington, Connecticut.  In October 1720, permission was granted by the General Court of Connecticut to the inhabitants of the North Society in Stonington, now North Stonington, to raise a tax to pay "Rev. Mr. Treat for preaching fourteen weeks while with them."
        He moved from Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut to Brimfield, Massachusetts in 1723, where he was ordained in 1724.  In 1734 he removed to Sheffield, Massachusetts where he died.
        His will mentioned sons Ashbel and John and two daughters as follows: "I Give my Daughters Ruth Pierson and Susannah Treat (with what each of them haue already had from me) So mvch out of my Estate as to make up the vallue of one hundred and ten pounds Money to each of them."
 
 

        (5)  Ashbel Treat, born about 1736, probably Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 1780 in Lenox, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; married Dorcas Goodrich, born 11 May 1739 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, died 8 August 1804 in Auburn, Cayuga Co., New York.  He was named after his uncle Rev. Ashbel Woodbridge, who served as minister at Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut from 1728 to 1758.
        Ashbel removed (probably from Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut) to Lenox, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts between 1762 and 1767 -- when the town was incorporated -- where he and his brother, Timothy, were named among the first purchasers of "Yokumtown," named after the Indian Chief, Yokum.
        In 1757 Ashbel served in the French and Indian War for eight days as a member of Capt. John Fellow's Company which marched to Fort Edward for the relief of Fort William Henry.  In 1760 he served in the same company from May 7th to November 18th.
        At the first town meeting in Lenox held on 11 March 1767,  Ashbel was elected "Fens Viewer."  He was subsequently elected as constable on 14 March 1768; hog reeve on 23 March 1769; warden on 23 March 1772; hog reeve and surveyor of highways on 25 March 1773; and appointed to the school committee on 21 March 1774.
        Ashbel's name appears with that of his brother John on the covenant signed at Lenox on 14 July 1774 in which the signers agreed that they would not "import, purchase or consume any goods, wares, or manufactures which shall arrive in America from Great Britain."

Parents of:

1. Lucinda, born 22 December 1762 in Lenox, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, died 22 September 1853 in Fort Ann, Washington Co., New York; married 18 August 1779 in Lenox, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, Daniel Weller, her first cousin, born 19 May 1760 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, died 9 June 1829 in Fort Ann, Washington Co., New York.