♀Katharine Treat

Katharine Treat (baptized 29 June 1637) was a daughter of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylard, of Pitminster, in Somerset, England, and later of Wethersfield, in the Connecticut Colony^W. She was a sister of Honor Treat (1616–1690), the eighth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), and of Robert Treat (1622–1710).

Baptism and marriage

The Treat Family (1893), a compiled genealogy, lists her baptism at Pitminster on 29 June 1637 as the last listed of the children of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylard “born and baptized in Pitminster”. By 1641 her father was at Wethersfield. The same book gives her marriage on 29 November 1655 to the Reverend William Thompson.

Her father’s will, dated 13 February 1668/69, names no Katharine. It leaves ten shillings to a married daughter named only by her husband’s surname, Johnson, and The Treat Family reads that daughter as Katharine. The book gives her husband as Thompson, not Johnson, and no record found so far explains the difference or confirms the identification.