FATHER

Robert Titus

WIFE

Martha Washburne

CHILDREN

1. Samuel Titus

2. Phebe Titus

3. Martha Titus

4. Mary Titus

5. Hannah Titus

6. Jane Titus

7. John Titus

8. Peter Titus

9. Patience Titus

10. Temperance Titus

Edmund Titus had been in Hempstead since 1650 and counted an old settler when Henry Willis arrived. They were from the same county in England.

Edmund had come from England to New England with his father when he was five (1635)

A meeting had been established at Westbury, when the place was still called Plainedge, on the 25d of 3d month, 1671. This was before Henry Willis had left England. The meeting was to begin on the 25th of 4th month, and so every fifth First day and was held at Westbury or Plainedge at the house of Edmond Titus.

1687, Nov29- Henry Willis and Edmond Titus, of Hempstead, "in derision called Quakers," petition the Governor for relief. They have already suffered in the spoil of their goods for the setting up and upholding a worship in the town aforesaid, which in their consciences they believe and know to be not the true worship of God, and are again threatened to have a part of their effects taken from them toward the maintenance of one Jeremiah Hobart of the same place, whom in conscience they cannot maintain, knowing him to be no minister of Christ, and so are no ways concerned with him. They allege the taking of their goods to be contrary to the laws, which give liberty of conscience to all persuasions.


Adam and Anne Mott, Cornell
pg 290 "Edmond Titus, second son of Robert and Hannah Titus, was born in England in 1630, and was brought by his parents at the age of five years to Boston, and thence to Weymouth and later to Rehoboth. About 1650 he went to Long Island and settled at Hempstead, and in 1655 there married Martha (born 1637) daughter of William and Jane Washburne. The Hempstead tax list of 1658 bears his name among eighty-nine others, and the records show that in February, 1672, he sold his house and home lot, with the orchard and trees (three apple tree excepted) to Adam Mott. They subsequently live and died at Westbury. Edmond and Martha Titus were among the earliest adherents of the Society of Friends, and as a consequence suffered reproach and injury. This, on the 15th of January, 1687, on a demand for 1 pound 25 s toward "building a house for the priest", which Edmond Titus refused to pay on conscience's grounds, the officers took a cow worth 4 pounds 10s, and on a demand "for the Priest's wages he took four young cattle. The following autumn, Henry Willis, who had suffered in like manner, joined with Edmond Titus in petitioning the Governor for relief from similar exactions, but they were the want of means. In the Hempstead tax roll of October, 1683, Edmond Titus appears as the owner of 29 acres of land, with 4 oxen, 17 cows, 20 sheep, and 1 horse."

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Mary Titus and her brother John Titus married William Willis and Sarah Willis also a brother and sister.