Jacob LORING

Male 1676 - 1751  (75 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Jacob LORING was born on 21 Apr 1676 in Hull, Massachusetts (son of John LORING and Mary BAKER); died on 5 Dec 1751.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Was a constable in 1709, a selectman several terms

    Jacob married Sarah LEWIS on 9 Feb 1708/9. Sarah was born on 12 Jul 1690; died on 8 Apr 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. John LORING was born on 15 Jan 1707/8 in Hull, Massachusetts; died in 1784.

    Jacob married Hannah JACOB on 8 May 1728. Hannah was born on 22 Jul 1696; died on 12 Nov 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John LORING was born on 22 Dec 1630 in Axminster, Devonshire, England; was christened on 27 Dec 1630 in Axminster, Devonshire, England (son of Deacon Thomas LORING and Jane NEWTON); died on 19 Sep 1714.

    Notes:

    Name:
    He resided in Hull; was town clerk seventeen years, one of the selectmen nine terms, representative in 1692. His son Israel became a minister and wrote a very affectionate and particular obituary upon his father, which is preserved in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and in the copy of that document in Mr. James Spear Loring's manuscript volume in the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Several items of interest are worth quoting:
    "Mr. John Loring while a boy of five years definitely determined to be a good chid of his heavenly Father and was earnestly religious all through his life. His wife attributed her own conversion to his influence. He was very solicitous to secure the conversion of his children. He began with them when they were young, tender and flexible, to put them in mind of God their Creator, and the things tat belong to their everlasting peace... He was a great reader... His was a religious family; the morning and evening sacrifice were duly offered up and on the Lord's Day evenings the sermons, which at meeting he took down in characters, were repeated." He cut his foot at one time, and the wound developed into a malignant sore, which gave him extreme pain. After a famous physician of Boston had treated the foot and failed to cure it or relieve the agony, a friend of Mrs. Loring,"Mrs. Whitmore of Medford, a doctress," came to visit the family and "applying her balsom to his angry wounds he presently had rest and ease and slept soundly the night following; and, with the blessing of heaven upon her endeavors, she effected a cure." He recovered his health, and lived some time thereafter.
    He died Lord's Day morning, September 19, 1714.

    John married Mary BAKER on 16 Dec 1657. Mary was christened in Aug 1639 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mary BAKER was christened in Aug 1639 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1679.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Baker and Sarah Lane

    Children:
    1. Thomas LORING was born on 1 Mar 1661/2 in Hull, Massachusetts; died on 3 Oct 1738.
    2. 1. Jacob LORING was born on 21 Apr 1676 in Hull, Massachusetts; died on 5 Dec 1751.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Deacon Thomas LORING was born in Axminster, Devonshire, England; died on 4 Apr 1661.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Deacon Thomas Loring, founder of the American family, was born at Axminster, Devonshire, England. So much his grandson, Rev. Israel Loring, learned from his father and left on record. But neither the name of his father, mother or any ancestor has come down to us. As we have seen on previous pages, the parish registers of Axminster are sadly defective and wills thus far examined fail to show the origin of the pioneer. Ir is matter of great satisfaction that the fragmentary records exhibit the man as one of the wardens of the parish, and so dispel any notion that he came here in any quarrel with the mother church as so many of the colonists did; from a life of fellowship with the congregation where he had lived he came to a new country and joined with the Congregational church, the only organization of Christian people here, so continuing in brotherly love with good people everywhere.
    Thomas Loring married, inEngland, Jane Newton; her grandson, already quoted from, says "she was a woman of a lively spirit,...skilled in the practise of physick," which shows that she was above the average in the community and useful to her neighbors. Her ancestry is thus far unknown to her descendants. There were other persons of the name in Axminster, as the registers show, but no token of relationship. Mr. Loring came here, Rev. Israel affirms, "December 23, 1634," and joined the church colony at Hingham, which had come from Hingham, Norfolkshire, under the lead of an Independent minister, Rev. Robert Peck. Admitted "freeman" or citizen of the colony March 3, 1635/6, he was already established on a home lot near what is now the corner of Town andShip Streets. He became the proprietor of other lots at later times. He was a farmer. As the fish that abounded along the shore furnished a large part of the food of the inhabitants, and were also "set" with the corn to enrich the soil, Deacon Loring and his neighbors, by permission of the town in 1637, built a weir to catch this floating wealth; and the stream is called today Weir River. He was an innkeeper, too, perhaps the first in the plantation, licensed by the General Court along with some from other towns in march, 1637. To show how careful the people were to have proper persons to entertain man and beast, especially when intoxicating drinks were sold in the inns, an extract fro the records of the General Court may be given:
    William Clark, who lived on the border of Salem and Lynn, kept public house. After his death his widow applied for renewal of the license; the court licensed her to "keep the inn and sell wine, if she provide a fit man that is godly for the business." Such sentiment surrounding "the business" makes it in a sense a compliment to an ancestor that he was entrusted with the hostelry.
    The church chose him one of its deacons and he was respected and influential in the town. From some cause fire robbed him of his dwelling, March 15, 1645/6, and he did not choose to rebuild. Instead, however, he bought property in the adjoining plantation of Hull, and took a prominent place there; was constable (which then meant court officer, tax collector, etc., and demanded a good business education as well as efficiency). He joined with some of his neighbors and others in taking stock in a new plantation, "Sickonke," afterward called Seakonk and Rehoboth; but he did not remove to the place or continue his ownership of land there. He bought "for a valuable consideration," May 30, 1660, of Thomas Chaffee "all that my housse Housing orchard & two home lotts, lying in the town of Hull, Conteigning fower acres more or lesse as they were measured lying North East & South west John Loring on the South east William Chamberlaine on the North west the Towne streete on the South west & Ducke Lane on the North East with my lott of meadow by Streights River & my two lotts at Sagamore hill and my tow lotts at Stawbery hill as they stand recorded to be butted & bounded in the Towne booke of Hull aforesaid except on the island called Peddocks Island."
    This extensive property was the subject of careful appraisal and division by the sons after their father's decease.
    Deacon Loring died April 4, 1661, leaving no will. Administration was granted to his widow Jane and eldest son Thomas, April 18, following, and the required inventory was presented June 27, 1661,

    Thomas married Jane NEWTONEngland. Jane was born in England; died on 25 Aug 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Jane NEWTON was born in England; died on 25 Aug 1672.
    Children:
    1. Thomas LORING, Jr. was christened on 5 Mar 1625/6 in Axminster, Devonshire, England; died in 1678.
    2. 2. John LORING was born on 22 Dec 1630 in Axminster, Devonshire, England; was christened on 27 Dec 1630 in Axminster, Devonshire, England; died on 19 Sep 1714.
    3. Isaac LORING was christened on 20 Jan 1639/40; died on 9 Feb 1639/40.
    4. Isaac LORING was christened on 9 Jan 1641/2; died on 2 Mar 1644/5.
    5. Josiah LORING was christened on 9 Jan 1641/2 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 14 Feb 1712/3.
    6. Benjamin LORING was christened on 24 Nov 1644 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 10 Mar 1715/6.