Copied from The History of Bucks Co. published in 1905.

OLIVER P. TITUS. The pioneer ancestor of the Titus family was Titus Syrachs de Vries, who emigrated from Yries, a village of Drenthe,

Holland, about 1650,and settled on Lone Island, laving at different periods at Brooklyn, Flatlands and New Utrecht, and owning considerable land. He was lieutenant of a company of foot at Midwout in 1673, and died about 1688. He married Jannetje Teunis, dauglrter of Teunis Janus Couwerts, who emigrated from Heemstede, North Holland in 1651,and their children (all of whom, end their decendants adopted and kept the surname of Titus), were TryntJe, baptized December 23, 1663; Teunis Titus; Syraeh Titus, baptited December 28, 1679; Jannetjee, March, 1682; Titus; Francis Titus.

Teunts Titus, son of Titus Syraehe and JannetJe Couverts, Joined his mother in the conveyance of his father's land at Flatlands, May 14,1695, and removed to Newtown, Long Island, where he resided until 1703, and at about that date removed to Mansfild, Burlington County New Jersey, from whence two of his sons, Francis and Jacob, migrated to Mucks County about 1730. The former married June 19, 1734, Mary Clark of Bucks County and settled in Middletown township, where he died in 1784, leaving seven children, vi: Francis, Jr., who married, August 17, 1763, Jane Fagen, and died at Bristol in 1800, leaving a son Francis, and three daughters; Martha, married Abraham Slack; Elizabeth married John Hellings; John;- Timothy, married Martha Right in 1764, and lived and died at Bristol; Samuel; and Tunis, who died before his father, leaving five children.

Jacob, the other son of Teunis, of New Jersey, married Gazina Vandegrift, daughter of Herman Vanderift, of Bensalem, and had ten children, viz

Elizabeth, who married Ephraim Phillips of Burlington County, New Jersey; Olchia, married Joseph Serums; Herman; Catherine, married John Baker, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey; Jacob, of Bensalem, who married Elizabeth Moon; Sarah, married Jacob Vandegrift; William; Charity, who married Samuel Sutton, of Myberry; and Seruch, married Deborah Featherbe, and settled in Buokingham, where he died in 1792, leaving sons William, Seraok and David.

Francis Titus, Jr., son of Francis and Rary (Clark) Titus, owned land An Plumstead and Tinicum to,ships, and lived for a time in Plumstead township, though he removed to Bristol township prior to his death in 1800. The descent of the subject of this sketch from the earlier generations of the family as above noted is not entirely clear, but he is thought to be a son of the third Francis of Bristol.

William Titus, said to be a son of Francis Titus, Jr., married Fronica Keeler, daughter of George and Mary Keeler, of Tinicum township, and had

two sons, Lewellyn and Jacob. The former went to California during the gold fever in 1852, and still resides there. He was at first engaged in mining, but later purchased large tracts of timber land, and operated a saw and grist mill. He married and reared a family in California.

Jacob Titus was reared in Tinicum township, and married, there Elizabeth George, daughter of Jacob and Hannah George, the latter of whom died in 1831. Hannah George was a granddaughter of Edward Marshall, the famous walker and Indian fi.htsr, who was born near ustleton, Pennsylvania, in 1710, and died in Tinicum, Bucks County, November 6, 1789. He made the famous "day and a half walk back in the woods" from brightstown to the Blue mountains in 1737, "which defined the boundaries of he "Walking Purchase", and thereby incurred the enmity of the Indians, who several times attacked his cabin and killed his first -wife. He married (second) Elizabeth Mease, and left a family of fifteen children. A full account of him is given in the first volume of this history, the chapter entitled "The Walking Purchase."

Jacob Titus purchased in 185 a large farm in ''Warrington, Bucks County, one hundred and thirty-seven acres of which he retained and greatly improved, erecting in 1855 the preen large d commodious stone dwelling now occupied by his son, Oliver P. Ttus. He so erected he barn and other outbuildings. He was enterprising and successful farmer, and held a high place in he community. Starting out in life with little or none of this world's goods, by dirt o perseverance and hard work he achieved financial success, while his strict integrity and umblemished character won he esteem of his neighbors and a large circle of friends.

Jacob George, the father of Elizabeth (George) Titus, was a son of Jacob and Eve George, of Tinicum, Bucks County, the former of whom died £n 1815, and th latter in 1829. They were the parents of one son, Jacob, and four daughters: Elizabeth, wife of George Hillpot; Catharine, wife of Jacob Pulmer; Mary, wife of George Wycker; and Susanna, wife of Frederick Solliday. Hannah, the wife of Jacob George, Jr., is thought to have been a daughter of William and Naomi (Marshall) LcCalla.

Jacob George, Jr. inherited from his father a farm of 199 acres in Tinicum, where he died December 18, 1831. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of the following children: Hugh, a civil engineer who died in 1866, unmarried; Susanna, married George Raike; Hiram, died in 1879; Eve, married William Royce; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Titus; Naomi, wife of Michael Worman; and Jacob L. George. Mrs. Titus died in 1898

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The children of Jacob and Elizabeth (George) Titus were Elwood, died at the age of twenty-two years; George, also deceased; Hugh, of Richboro, Bucks County; and 0liver Pc The mother was a member of Neshaminy Presbyterian Church, which her husband also attended but was not a member.

Oliver P. Titus, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born on the farm upon which he now resides, May 8, 1864, and began his education at the public schools, and finished at Doylestown English and Classical Seminary. He remained on the farm with his father until his marriage, and two yes later removed to New Jersey, where he as for six years superintendent of a stock fm of 350 acres. He then returned home, and at the death of his mother purchased the homestead in I899, and has since made it his home. The farm is pleasantly located in the valley of the Little Neshaminy, and is very productive one. Mr. Titus takes great pride in keeping up is ornamental and attractive features as well as the fertility of the soil. Politically Mr. Titus is Republican, and religiously he and his wife are members of Neshaminy Presbyterian Church. Mr. Titus married Florence B, Dobbins, who was born in Bucks County, October 19, 1865, and is a daughter of the late J. K. and Sarah A. (Jenkins) Dobbins, of Warrington. Her father J. K. Dobbins, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, November 27, 1838, and as a son of Joseph R. and Mary A. (Hillyard) Dobbins, the former a native of New Jersey and a prominent merchant and well known citizen Mount Holly, New Jersey. He served he in the war of 1812. Mary A. (Hillyard) Dobbins was a daughter of Eben Hillyard, a prominent contractor of Philadelphia, who married a daughter of Richard Supers, a captain in the Revolutionary war. The children of Joseph R. and Mary A. (Hillyard) Dobbins were: Eber H.; John J.; Richard, Susan K., Sarah, Edward, Joseph K, and Merrill.