Content Titus, born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, March 28, 1643, ... He was known as
Captain Titus, receiving his commission from the crown on December 30, 1687. About 1650
his parents moved their family to Oyster Bay, Long Island. Content, having lived at
Huntington, Long Island, came to Newtown in 1672, where he met and married Elizabeth
Moore. She was the daughter of the Rev. John Moore.
Captain Content Titus remained in Newtown and became an active and valuable resident.
At a town meeting in 1681 he, with three others, were appointed to see that an orderly
record was kept of business matters concerning the town.
The faculties of Captain Content Titus were so vigorous at the age of eighty years, that
he was chosen an elder of the Presbyterian Church. He died January 17, 1730. In the
Southwest corner of the ancient burial ground at Newtown a rude stone marked his grave
for many years. It bore the simple inscription: "CONTENT TITUS." Later when the church
at Newtown, Long Island, celebrated its 250th Anniversary in 1902, the remains of three of
its former pastors were removed from the old burial place and reinterred in the same yard
in what is now known as the Ministers lot. "Included among the graves in the plot are
those of Philip Duviveer and Content Titus whos remains were removed at the same time as
those of the pastors."
Pg 257, "Hopewell Valley Heritage" by Alice Blackwell Lewis