Individual Details

A monument in the Titus Hill Cemetery is inscribed: "Erected in 1888 by the descendants of Eleazer and Martha Titus. Trusting our descendants will see to its preservation." It further reads: "Eleazer Titus was carried from Attleboro, Mass. to Bath, (Grafton Co.) NH on horseback in the arms of his mother Ann Bigelow, wife of Capt. Sam Titus 1765." (see "A Genealogical Guide to the Titus Family in North America" by William R. Arthurs and "Titus Family in America" by Dorothy M. Titus dated July 1943).

The family burying grounds at Titus Hill are on the old farm which is part in Columbus , NH and part in Colebrook, Coos Co., NH, per the Dorthy M. Titus study dated July 1943.

Per "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families..etc." by Edmund James Cleveland dated 1899, page 2282, found at Heritage Quest Online: Martha Cleveland married Eleazer Titus on 13 Jan. 1785. She was the daughter of John Cleveland and Betsey Downer and he was the son of Capt. Samuel and Ann (Bigelow) Titus. All their children were born in Colebrook, Coos Co., NH.

1818 death date and Colebrook, Coos Co., NH location is from the William R. Arthurs study and confirmed by Ancestral File.

1816 pole tax shows him living on the George W. Martin farm in Colebrook, Coos Co., NH and taxed on one house, two oxen and three cows (see "History of Coos Co., NH" by Georgia Drew Merrill dated 1888, page 593 found at Heritage Quest Online).

1810 census shows him as age 45 or over (actual age 46) living with one male age 10-15 (this would have been son Anson age 11), two males ages 16-25 (this would be sons Eleazer Jr age 17 and Caleb age 19), 3 females 10-15 ( this may have included daughters Mary age 7, Anna age 15, but missing are daughters Abigail age 4, Martha age 4 and Betsey age 20 and sons Samuel age 22 and John age 24), one unknown female age 26-44 and one female age 45 and over (this is wife Martha age 47). The family was living in Colebrook, Coos Co., NH.

1806 cleared a farm on Titus Hill and was one of the earliest pioneers to settle in Colebrook, Coos Co., NH, per the "Titus Family in America" by Dorothy M. Titus dated July 1943.

1804 at the town meeting on 13 March 1804, in Landaff, Grafton Co., NH, Eleazer Titus was named but not sworn in as a Surveyor of Highways, per FHC film 15195 Landaff, NH, Town Records page 243.

1800 census shows Eleazer Titus living in Landaff, Grafton Co., NH with a female his age and six childern. One of his sons, John or Samuel, is missing from this census.

1798 at the town meeting on 13 March 1798, in Landaff, NH, Eleazer Titus was elected one of the town's Surveyor of Highways per FHC film 15195 Landaff, NH Town Records.

1797 at the town meeting on 1 July 1797, in Landaff, NH, Eleazer Titus' house was used as a marker for a new road per FHC film 15195 Landaff, NH Town Records.

1794 birth info on his daughter, Abigail, shows parents as Elezer Titus and Martha Cleaveland is per the New Hampshire Register of Vital Statistics "Death Indes early to 1900" (LDS film 1001111).

1786 at a town meeting on 14 March 1786, in Landaff, NH, Eleazer Titus was named as one of four Surveyors of Highways per FHC film 15195 Landaff, NH Town Records page 27.

1785 marriage date and location is from the William R. Arthurs study and confirmed by Ancestral File. FHC fiche #6051226 covering DAR Vol 138 page 127-128 DAR member #137399 shows Eleazer Titus (1763-1818) married to Martha Cleveland (1763-1837) in 1785. Also shown in the Dorothy M. Titus study dated July 1943.

1780 enlisted in Capt. Sam Runsal's Co. per the Dorothy M. Titus study dated July 1943 which references "Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 3, page 168, 169, N.H. State Papers, Vol i6".

1763 birth date and location is per Ancestral File, IGI and Ancestry.com. The William R. Arthurs study and the Dorothy M. Titus study shows the year as 1764. Birth date and location also confirmed via "NewEnglandAncestors.org" as Eleazar, son of Samuel and Anna Titus. In the New Hampshire Register of Vital Statistics "Death Indes early to 1900" (LDS film 1001111) shows the death of his son, Eleazer Jr. in 1870, and indicates that he, Eleazer Sr. was born in Rhode Island (?).

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Birth	5 Apr 1763	Winchendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Birth	1764	inscriptinos on the Eleazer Titus Mounmentin the Titus family cemetery on Titus Hill, Colebrook, New Hampshire, Attleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Residence	1765	and carried in the arms of his mother on horse-back from Attleboro, MA - Bath (Grafton), New Hampshire, British America
Military	1780	enlisted in Capt. Sam Runsal's Co.
Marriage	13 Jan 1785	Landaff, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States - Martha Cleveland
Fact 1	11 Jun 1796	The town of Colebrook, Grafton Co., NH, was incorporated
Census (family)	1800	Landaff, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States - Martha Cleveland
Fact 2	1803	The county of Coos was created
Residence (family)	1806	was one of the earliest pioneers to settle in Colebrook and cleared a farm - Titus Hill, Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States - Martha Cleveland
Census (family)	1810	Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States - Martha Cleveland
Residence	1816	on the George W. Martin farm as per a poll tax, Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Death	14 Nov 1818	Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Burial	1818	Titus Hill Cemetery located half in Columbia, NH and, Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
LDS Family Tree ID		K2YC-X64
WikiTree		Titus-581

Spouse	Martha Cleveland (1763 - 1836)
Child	Rev. John Cleveland Titus (1786 - 1830)
Child	Samuel Titus (1787 - 1857)
Child	Betsey Titus (1789 - 1874)
Child	Caleb Titus (1791 - 1857)
Child	Eleazer Titus Jr. (1793 - 1870)
Child	Abigail Titus (1794 - 1797)
Child	Anna Titus (1796 - )
Child	Anson Titus (1798 - 1881)
Child	Martha Titus (1800 - 1830)
Child	Mary Titus (1802 - )
Child	Abigail Titus (1805 - )

Father	Captain Samuel Titus (1734 - 1818)
Mother	Ann Bigelow (1740 - )
Sibling	John Calvin Titus (1761 - )
Sibling	Samuel Titus (1765 - )
Sibling	David Titus (1769 - 1840)
Sibling	Luther Titus (1771 - )
Sibling	Calvin Titus (1777 - 1819)
Sibling	John Smith Titus (1780 - 1868)
Sibling	Polly Titus (1783 - )

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