Titus
Hosmer
Born in Hartford, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Stephen Hosmer
and Deliverance (Graves) Hosmer
Brother of
Sarah (Hosmer) Whiting, Stephen Hosmer, Marianne (Hosmer) Garywick, Miriam Hosmer [half], George Hosmer, Anna (Hosmer) Yale, Deliverance Hosmer, Timothy Hosmer, Esther Hosmer, Mary Hosmer [half], John Hosmer, Prentice Hosmer, Mary Hosmer and Graves Hosmer
Husband of
Lydia (Lord) Hosmer
— married
30 Nov 1761 in Middletown,, Connecticut
Descendants 
Father of
Stephen Titus Hosmer, Hezekiah Lord Hosmer, Lydia Hosmer, Sarah (Hosmer) Northey, Elizabeth Lord Hosmer, Richard Grove Hosmer and Harriet Hosmer
Died
at about age 44
in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
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Biography
Titus Hosmer served with American Founding Fathers during the American Revolution.
Titus Hosmer is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A058826.
Titus Hosmer was born in 1736 in Hartford, Connecticut. His parents were Stephen Hosmer and Deliverance Graves. He graduated Yale in 1757. He married Lydia Lord on November 30, 1761 Together they had 7 children:
- Stephen Titus Hosmer
- Hezekiah Hosmer
- Lydia Hosmer
- Sarah Hosmer
- Elizabeth Lord Hosmer
- Richard Grove Hosmer
- Harriet Hosmer
He died on August 04, 1780 in Middletown, Connecticut, United States.
He was a member of Continental Congress 1775-1780; He signed the Articles of Confederation. Justice of the Peace, Member of Council of Safety, Committee Member; delegate to Continental Congress, speaker and clerk of the House of Representatives, delegate to and assistant, General Assembly. He took the Oath of Fidelity 1777. [1]
"The inventory of his estate amounted to upwards of three thousand pounds; and in it is enumerated a library of nearly 200 volumes." (Dexter)
Sources
- ↑ SAR https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/185311 citing "Roll of State Officers and Members of the General Assembly of Connecticut from 1776 to 1881," Hartford, Connecticut, 1881, pg 9, 11, 14, 17 and "Signers of the Articles of Confederation" - The U.S. Constitution Online
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1896) Vol. 2, Page 468-70.
- Pease, John Chauncey & Niles, John Milton. A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island (William S. Marsh, 1819) Page 275.
- Roberts, Ronald Longaker. The Hosmer Heritage: Ancestors and Descendants of the Emigrant Thomas Hosmer (South Lake Tahoe, CA, 1984)
- Genealogical records of the pioneer families of Avon, N.Y. : Pierson, Waterous, Hosmere, Martin, etc., and their descendants; Rochester, N.Y. : Express Printing House; 1871; Image: (52 of 78)
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- Malcolm Osmer
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