History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ounds are neatly inclosed, and very soon more roomwill be needed. The private plots of the Gilles, Lainge, and a fewothers are now of the past, they not now being usedas places of interment, and in some cases very muchneglected by their descendants, which is much to beregretted, as they are the links in the chain of fam-ilies, and is where the historian must go for his gene-alogies of these families. PISCATAWAY. 601 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ISAAC D. D. Titsworth was bor
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ounds are neatly inclosed, and very soon more roomwill be needed. The private plots of the Gilles, Lainge, and a fewothers are now of the past, they not now being usedas places of interment, and in some cases very muchneglected by their descendants, which is much to beregretted, as they are the links in the chain of fam-ilies, and is where the historian must go for his gene-alogies of these families. PISCATAWAY. 601 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ISAAC D. D. Titsworth was born in Piscataway town-ship, Middlesex Co., N. J., June 13, 1805. He wasthe^fifth child and second son of Lewis and Keziah(Dunham) Titsworth. His ancestors came fromEngland, from a township named Tittesworth, inStaffordshire, which was the ancient seat of the fam-ily. From a printed work containing a history ofthis township we trace the name of Tittesworth backto the year 1030, in the time of Canute, the Dane,and Edward the Confessor. The same work informsus of certain descendants of the original Tittesworth. c/p. (;i^i^h^-u^^T7i^ who greatly distinguished themselves. One namedRalph joined Lord Stanley at Bosworth Field with alarge body of men, and himself slew Richard theThird on the 24th day of August, 1485. Another descendant, Sir Benjamin, was called theSilver Trumpet of the Long Parliament. HoraceWalpole speaks of him as a wit and poet in greatvogue in those days, and Southey, in his Book ofthe Church, calls him one of the most eloquentmen in that best age of English eloquence. Anotherwas the engineer and builder of the second EddystoneLighthouse. When the name first came to this country is uncer-tain ; it was, however, previous to 1711, as the nameoccurs at that date as that of the owner of a planta- tion in Northern New Jersey. The subject of thissketch was reared in poverty. He did not long enjoyeven the common-school advantages of those days forobtaining an education. Ci
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