Samuel Treat Reverend

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁶⁰⁰
Rev. Samuel Treat was baptized 3 Sep 1648 in Milford, Connecticut. He died 18 Mar 1716/1717 and he was buried in Eastham, Massachusetts. He first married, 16 Mar 1674, Elizabeth Mayo, baptized 22 May 1653, died 4 Dec 1696 at the ages of forty-four. She was the daughter of Samuel Mayo and Tamsen Lumpkin. His second wife was Mrs. Abigail (Willard) Estabrook, daughter of Rev. Sam Willard and Abigail Sherman.

Samuel's father & their family, plus other relatives had moved from Connecticut to New Jersey and were the founders of Newark. Samuel Treat graduated at Harvard college in 1669. After graduating, he severed for six or seven months as the minister for the town of Woodbridge, New Jersey.

In 1672, Major Robert Treat returned to Milford, and his son Samuel most likely returned with him. In the same year, Eastham on Cape Cod asked him to become the Pasteur of their church. His salary was fifty pound per annum, which increased in 1710 to seventy pounds in silver money, with wood enough for his use brought to his door. He also received, a parcel of meadow and upland, three acres of meadow called "White Meadow," an island at Bilingsgate with a meadow, a parcel of marsh in Great Meadow, twenty acres of upland at the head of the Cove, and the town built him a suitable house on this land.

Samuel was known for treating the local Native Americas with kindness. He joined in their festivities, as well as being able to speak and write their language. He translated, and published the "Confessions of Faith" into the Nanset dialect.

Samuel was not a popular or pleasant preacher. He had a loud, harsh voice. The character of his sermons were Calvinism, of the strictest kind. He was a man of piety, yet also good natured and a kinds & loving father & husband.

Samuel possessed a vigorous constitution, but his heath began to fail him toward the end of his life. He died, 18 Mar 1716/17 which happened to be the same time of a great snow piled up to six feet. His funeral was delayed until they could dig a hole in the ground beneath all the snow. Some of the local Native Americans requested to carry his body to its final resting place. He was buried in the old burying ground at Eastham, near the Town Cove. His gravestone reads:

Samuel married Elizabeth Mayo, daughter of Samuel Mayo and Thomasine Lumpkin, on 16 Mar 1674 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.⁶⁰⁰ (Elizabeth Mayo was christened on 22 May 1653 in Boston, Massachusetts ⁶⁰⁰ and died on 4 Dec 1697 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts ⁶⁰⁰.)