Robert Titus (colonist)
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c. 1600
Robert Titus | |
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| Born | Robert Titus c. 1600 St. Katherine's, London, England |
| Died | 1672 Huntington, Long Island, USA |
| Spouse | Hannah |
| Children | John, Edmond, Samuel, Susanna, Abiel and Content |
Robert Titus (c. 1600 – 1672) was the first Titus immigrant from England to America and is the progenitor of many of the Tituses in America today.[1] After living 19 years in Brookline, Weymouth and Rehoboth, Titus was warned out of Massachusetts in 1654; and moved to Long Island.
Robert Titus sailed from St. Katherine's, London, aboard the ship Hopewell on April 3, 1635, with his wife, Hannah, and two sons.[2][3] The family arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony port of Boston; and Robert was granted land in Muddy River, the present town of Brookline, Massachusetts. They lived in Brookline for two or three years and then moved to the town of Weymouth. Robert's land in Weymouth is described in the town records and is printed on page 274 of The History of Weymouth:
Six acres in the plaine 3 of them first giuen to George Allin 3 to Arthure Warren bounded on the East with a highwaie on the west and north with high waies on the south with the land of John Ozborne
ffower acres on the other side first giuen to James Ludden the greate swampe being on the west and south of it
One acre of ffresh marsh at his dore beinge at the north end of the greate swampe.
Banishment
Robert and his family belonged to the Church of Weymouth where Rev. Samuel Newman was pastor from 1639 to 1643. In 1643 Rev. Newman and most of his parishioners, including the Titus family, moved out of Weymouth and settled to the southwest and ultimately founded Rehoboth, Massachusetts.[4]
Despite Robert's importance in Rehoboth community, he began to have problems with his fellow townsmen. On June 6, 1654, he was told to move his family out of the Plymouth Colony for allowing Abner Ordway and family, "persons of evil fame", to live in his home. The practice of banishing a family from the colony was known as a "Warning Out Notice;" and the warning out of the Titus family was the first recorded in the Plymouth Colony Record (22. p. 52)
Robert took his family to Long Island in the summer of 1654 where his son Edmond had moved about 1650 to later become a Quaker. They settled near Oyster Bay in Huntington, Long Island. Robert's oldest son John was a land holder in Rehoboth in 1654 and remained there when his father moved to Long Island.[2]