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American Revolution Veteran [edit] Biography of John TitmanOne of the first records we have of John Titman is a Sussex County, New Jersey tax record for August 1773 showing he is living in the town of Oxford, Sussex County New Jersey. On 23 June 1784, John Titman is named as the husband of Catharine Fite by her father John Fite in his will proved in Sussex, New Jersey[8][9]. There has been no official record found for their marriage, but Catharine Armstrong gives her Declaration in the Revolutionary Pension files for her sister, Mary Rumfelt, Widow of Henry Rumfelt, to receive a Revolutionary Pension. In the Revolutionary pension file of Henry Rumfelt, Elizabeth Orton makes her declaration and she states she is a life-long friend of Mary and Catharine Fite. She was "bound" to John Titman and lived with him till she served out her time. That she knew Mary Rumfelt before her marriage to Henry Rumfelt and also knew him. That the Rumfelt's lived together in New Jersey until they had three children. They all moved to North Carolina in the year 1790, because Elizabeth Orton and her husband came to North Carolina in "company with the said Henry Rumfelt and they "have lived near them ever since". She also states that she knew that John Titman was the husband of Catharine and that Titman died and Catharine married Matthew Armstrong and that she now is the widow of Matthew Armstrong. Sworn to on 1 June 1841, Lincoln County, North Carolina[5]. The 1790 New Jersey census no longer exists and the Titman's are not on the 1790 census for Lincoln County, NC. The Rumfelts are also not listed in Lincoln County, North Carolina so this would indicate they moved from New Jersey sometime after the 1790 Sussex, New Jersey census was taken, in the latter part of that year. Katharine Titman is listed as head of household on the 1830 Lincoln County census. John's marker reflects he dies in 1830 so it must have been earlier in the year before the 1830 census was taken on the "official" enumeration day of 1 June 1830. He is buried in New Hope Cemetery, Gaston County, North Carolina, probably because of other family there. His headstone is a military marker reflecting that he was in the New Jersey Militia[6]. So far, his name is not found in the Revolutionary War files in New Jersey and a further search needs to be made to locate his service record in the New Jersey archives. References
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