Robert (Trott) Treat (abt. 1540 - bef. 1599)

Born about 1540 in South Trendle, Pitminster, Somerset, England

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Died before 16 Feb 1599 before about age 59 in Taunton Manor, Pitminster, Somerset, England

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Biography

Robert (Trott) Treat was born about 1538 / 1540 in South Trendle, Pitminster, Somerset, England, son of Richard Trott (~1495 - <1570) and Joanna (Scadding) Trott (~1508 - <1577). He was "probably baptized in the hamlet of Trendle, now Trull, parish of Pitminster," Somersetshire, England. ^[1]

Robert married Honoria Yumbert (~1536 - 1627) in 1568. Their children were:^[1]

1. Alice Treat (1564 - )
2. John (Treat) Trott (1570 - 1633)
3. Mary (Treat) Babb (1575 - 1597)
4. Agnes (Treat) Alpin (1577 - 1598)
5. Tamsen Treat (1581 - ~1669)
6. Capt. Richard Treat Esq. (1584 - >1669).

Robert "probably resided in the southern part Trendle, now Trull, a hamlet in the parish of Pitminster.^[1]

Robert Trott's son Richard changed his last name from Trott to Treat after he emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s.^[2]

Robert died before 16 Feb 1599 in Taunton Manor, Pitminster, Somerset aged ~58, and was buried on "February 16, 1599 in Pitminster," Somersetshire, England. ^[1]Robert's Will, 1598 - [15]99, was probated at Taunton, [Somersetshire, England], file vii, No. 195, old calendar, but unfortunately has "utterly perished."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} 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. With Illustrations, Autographs, and A Map of Somersetshire. John Harvey Treat. The Salem Press Publishing & Printing Company, Salem, Massachusetts. 1893. Page 15-16 #5 Robert Trott, Page 26 Richard Treat was the son of Robert and Honora or Honour Trott
2. ↑ Richard Treat. Wikipedia. Accessed by Michael Boynton on December 19, 2015 at 7:14 PM. Richard Treat

• Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography. Volume 1. The American Historical Society, Boston, MA. 1917. https://archive.org/stream/encyclopediaofco01amer#page/10/mode/1up. Pages 10 - 12.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560 - 1900. Yates Publishing: The Generations Network, Inc. (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004).

• Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=61698&h=62403772&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=9840

• UK parish registers

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Nova Weller for creating WikiTree profile Treat-403 on Apr 15, 2013.