Deerfield’s minister, the Reverend Jonathan Ashley, purchased Titus from the Reverend Samuel Kendall of New Salem, Massachusetts, in 1750. Titus was one of three enslaved people in the Ashley household. The minister augmented his salary by hiring out Titus and Cato to perform mainly agricultural labor for other local residents. Like Cato, Titus served in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and their names appear on accounts each man kept at Elijah Williams’s store in the village center. Reverend Ashley sold Titus in 1760.