As I try to correct/confirm Abiel's marriage record I have come accross some interesting material that I have NOT seen talked about in any forums before concerning Abiel (b. 1751/52) I was wondering if anyone has any additional information with regard to Abiel's Loyalist activities. Interestingly he was a very visable citizen of Brooklyn after the war....a member of the first FDNY in Brooklyn, friends with the Van Nostrand's and Leffert families etc...

Excerpts below are from A History of the City of Brooklyn including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, theTown of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh, vol. II , by Henry R. Stiles.


Document 1. People and Buildings from Guy’s “Snow Scene of Brooklyn in 1820” On the corner of Front Street and the Old Road was the large and very old (wood) frame building. It was occupied as a hardware store by Thomas W. Birdsall and Joel Bunce. Above Birdsall’s corner was the residence of Abiel Titus. It was a small dwelling (house) with a narrow front on Fulton Street. In the picture, Titus is feeding his chickens in the gateway of the yard between his house and barn. He supported the loyalist side during the revolution and was servant to a major in the British army. Later he was a butcher.

Also found a rare reference to "my" Theodore..Abiel's grandson and son of Ira

Brooklyn, New York General & Business Directory for 1840-41.

Brooklyn:
T. & J. W. Leslie & W. F. Chichester, 1840

TINKER, Henry, grocer, 131 Nassau
TITUS, Abiel, 128 Prospect
TITUS, Ancel, crockery store, 114 Fulton
TITUS, Edward H., printer, 20 York
TITUS, F.R., china & glass store, 158 Fulton
TITUS, James, butcher, 1 Brooklyn Market, h 131 Sands
TITUS, RichEE., Green lane c Prospect
TITUS, Sam., merchant, Cheever place
TITUS, Theodore, butcher, 192 Pearl
TITUS, Thos.W., inspector of customs, Jackson n Lafayette