Titus Munson

Titus (Abel) b. s July 1734; »/. 22 Sept. 1757 Lydia Linsley (Northf. Ch. Rec.) ; she d. 23 Jan. 1776; he d. 12 April 1776. Cong.; res. Wallingford, Ct.

Children :

i. Irene b. g March 1758; Ьр. 7 June 1761 at Northford Ch.; m. 14 May 1776 Samuel Bartholomew Junr of Branford ; res. Branford, Ct.; 2 ch.—(t) Lydia1 6. 25 Jan. 1777, (2) Luzerne' b. 31 July 1781.

ii. Ithiel b. ii Dec. 1760; bp. 7 June 1761, it.

iii. Jacob" b. 23 May 1763 ; bp. 26 June 1763, it.; d. 28 Jan. 1766.

iv. Mary .15 June 1766 ; bp. 27 July 1766, it.

v. Jacob' b. 25 Oct. 1768 ; bp. 28 Dec. 1768, /*./ d. 13 Oct. 1776.

vi. Titus t. lo June 1771 ; bp. 21 July 1771, it.; he is mentioned in the

distribution of his father's estate and in the Will of his grand-

father. Mary F. Munson of Guilford reports, from the " A

Count" book of John Linsley, that young Tytus in 1786 had

numerous "gakits" of all colors,—two of them described as

" spotted and streect." He was in college, and this Mr. Linsley

had charge of his money, and sometimes boarded him. After

attending " SChol " in Wallingford, and " Colledge," he went to

Lyme to live in Jan. 1792. Our informant adds that Titus " was

fearfully hard on ' schues,' buying six pairs at a time, and soon

after having sixteen pairs mended." A Titus Munson was enrolled

as a member of the Episcopal Society in North Haven between

1784 and 1790.

vii. Rebecca t. 6 May 1775 ; bp. g July 1775, ib.; d. 5 March 1776.

In 1757 Titus' paid ^65 for 4 acres on the east side of Muddy River, "a little southward from pecks Mill;" this land was bounded North on his father Abel4, and appears to have been the site of his home. He joined Dan and Joseph Linsley and eighteen others in buying ^ of an acre " at the half mile near mudy river near Smiths Bridge; " date, Nov. 1764.

Titus' was chosen highway-surveyor in 1762 and 1769. He and Lydia were admitted to the communion of the Northford Church in 1761. The records of the church at Northford have this item : "Apr. 12, 1776 Ensign Titus Munson died on Long Island, age 42." The tradition is that "he was a captain, and died of smallpox while in the Revolutionary Army."

His estate inventoried ,£247.11.5, and included 4 acres of land ^32, dwellinghouse ¿£50, barn ^Ji6, pair of steers £6, 3 cows loo/, 90/, 70/, 3 geese 4/6, 2 saddles 68/, pillion 2/, gun and bayonet 36/, cartouch box 6/, cutlash 9/, etc.