ISAAC TITUS, U.E.L.

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This is my 100th post to the UE Loyalist History Blog which began in September 2025, and it seems right that I make it about a United Empire Loyalist from Digby County where I lived when I began my research into their history.  It also includes at the bottom a link to an article that was published by Loyalist Trails, weekly email newsletter of the UELAC.  Since 2014, I have submitted well over 50 articles that it has published.

Isaac Titus (1747 -1818), was a United Empire Loyalist born at Bedford in Westchester County,  New York. A gravesite memorial mentions him in the Old Schoolyard Cemetery at Centreville,  Digby County, Nova Scotia.   He was one of the pioneers of Trout Cove ( now Centreville).

Isaac Titus, UEL,  on Memorial 

When he arrived he brought with him a chair that is displayed in the Admiral Digby Museum at Digby.  The type of chair is called a Bow Back Windsor.  When photos of the chair were sent to the Rhode Island Historical Society it confimed that it is late 18th century....not of great value, but rare. 


1770s Loyalist chair

The chair was made by Thomas and Wiliam Ash who had a business located in New York from about 1775 to 1785. On the bottom of the chair is a stamp which identifies them as the makers.


 Bottom of chair with stamp of makers

Isaac Titus was married to Jemima Levinia  (Mead) . His parents were Timothy Titus and  Charity (Losea). He was imprisoned as a Loyalist for a year by the Rebels until he escaped in 1777. His home and farm were lost and he made claim to the British Commissioners of American Loyalist Claims for this when he gave his damages in 1786 after he settled outside Digby.



Further Reading:

The 1770s Loyalist Chair , by Brian McConnell, U.E., published by UELAC in Loyalist Trails




/ Descendant of Private James Humphrey of Jessup's Rangers in American Revolution, Grandson of Royal Irish Fusilier, 36th Ulster Division, in WW I

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