Joshua Loring
Joshua Loring | |
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Henry Lloyd Loring, son Sir John Wentworth Loring, grandson | |
Other work | member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council under colonial Governor Thomas Gage |
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Joshua Loring (3 August 1716 – September 1781
Biography
Born in
Seven Years War
During the
Later life
Loring settled in
However the Loring Genealogy suggests this was not a decision made lightly nor in advance: "He decided after serious consideration and consultation with friends, "the whole night through." In the morning he took his horse, rode to Boston and joined the English commander."[1]
Loring was forced to flee, with his family, to the safety of the British Army's garrison in Boston in August 1774. He was denounced by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress as "an implacable enemy to their country" on 30 March 1775. The Lorings remained in Boston until 17 March 1776, when the British Army left Boston for Halifax, evacuating as it went those Loyalists who had sought refuge in the city. The Lorings traveled on from Halifax to England, having been named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778. Their home and property in Jamaica Plain, used as a hospital by the rebels during the siege of Boston, were confiscated by the state in 1779 and sold at auction. Loring received a royal pension until his death[1] at Highgate, England in 1781.[4]
Family
Loring's eldest son,
References
- ^ a b c d e Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy (Cambridge, Mass., 1917), pp. 78-79
- ^ Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy, (1917), p.46
- ^ Roberts, Oliver Ayer. History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1637-1888. Vol. II. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son Printers, 1897. (pg. 157-158)
- ^ Boyd, Eva Phillips. "Commodore Joshua Loring, Jamaica Plain by Way of London" in Old-Time New England, April–June 1959.
- ^ Losing, Benson J. Harpers' Popular Cyclopedia of United States History from the Aboriginal Period Containing Brief Sketches of Important Events and Conspicuous Actors. Vol. II. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. (pg. 810)
- ^ Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an Historical Essay, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1864), vol. 2, pp. 27-8 Retrieved 24 June 2015
- ^ Fish, Hamilton. "Martyrdom of thirteen thousand American Patriots aboard the monstrous Jersey and other British prison ships in New York Harbor", Originally appearing in New York State—The Battleground of the Revolutionary War Vantage Press, 1976.
- ^ Drake, Francis S. Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. (pg. 563)
- ^ Pope, Charles Henry Loring Genealogy. Cambridge, MA: Murray and Emery Co., 1917. (pg. 226)
External links
- Douglas, W.A.B. (1979). "Loring, Joshua". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Biography at the Jamaica Plain Historical Society
- Loring Genealogy (Pope 1917)