William Titcomb

- 1676

• Name	William Titcomb  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Ogborne St. George, Wiltshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Sep 1676	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I5884	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Joan Bartlett,   b. 26 Jan 1610   d. Between 1647 and 1654 (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1640  [4]
  Family ID	F24287	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Bitfield,   b. Bef 21 Mar 1629   d. Aft 18 Sep 1676 (Age > 47 years)
  Marriage	3 Mar 1654	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Titcomb,   b. 12 Dec 1654, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 26 Aug 1690, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F3340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2018

  
  

• Notes

  The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton II (citation details below) establishes that he came from Ogborne St. George in Wiltshire, based on the will of his sister Millicent who died there in 1659 after bequeathing her full estate to "my brother William living in Newberry in New England." He may have been the William Titcomb baptized at Ogborne St. George on 7 Nov 1613, and he was perhaps a son of the Thomas Titcomb buried there on 5 Jul 1630. Robert Charles Anderson finds no record of him prior to his appearance at Newbury in 1639, but The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton II says that he took the oath of supremacy and allegiance at Southampton, England, on 24 Mar 1634, "to pass for New England in the Mary and John of London, Robert Sayres, master." He was one of the six left behind to oversee the transportation of cattle on the Hercules, which departed Southampton on 16 Apr 1634.

  
  

• Sources

  [S531] Findagrave.com page for Samuel Bartlett. [S539] John Plummer, "The English Origin of Samuel Bitfield of Boston, Massachsetts." The American Genealogist 67:236, October 1992. [S2344] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part II: The Ancestry of Amanda Spiller 1823-1873 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916.