Ancestry of
John Updike

Author of The Witches of Eastwick

Content Titus

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Updike — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 288 
  • Father:
  • Robert Titus 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Mar 1643 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jan 1729/1730 
  • Death Location:
  • Newtown, Queens, New York 
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  • Child:

  John Titus (Ahnentafel No:144 )

  • Notes: 

  • There have been claims that Content Titus's first wife was Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Rev. John Moore and Margaret Howell, or a sister of Elizabeth. More recent research argues against this claim.

    The birth records for Content Titus refer to him as a daughter of Robert Titus, but Content is clearly a son as indicated by other sources.

• Additional marriages for Content Titus

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Samway
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1711
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newtown, Queens, New York

• Sources for Content Titus

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 1, p. 308, Birth record for Content Titus.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1855, Vol. 9, p. 172.
  • ³ New York Wills, 1626-1836, p. 381, Will for mother Hannah Titus.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 65-66.
  • ⁵ Titus, Dorothy M., Titus Family in America: Eleven Generations, Weston, Massachusetts: Published by the Editor, Percy Hobart Titus (1943), 1.
  • ⁶ Titus, Leo J., Titus: A North American Family History, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (2004), 7, 12-13.
  • ⁷ Titus, Rev. Anson, Jr., The Titus Family in America, (1881), 3-4 .