The Caleb Loring Family at Plympton
Old Burial Grounds at Plympton, Massachusetts
The Caleb Loring Family at Plympton |
Old Burial Grounds at Plympton, Massachusetts |
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. The parish registers at Axminster are sadly defective and wills thus far examined fail to show the origin of the pioneer. It is a 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, in England, Jane Newton; her grandson, already quoted from, sayss "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. 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, 1635/36, he was already established on a home lot near what is now the corner of Town and Ship streets.
--From "The Loring Genealogy" by Charles Henry Pope, 1917 (See Pope's Loring Genealogy below)
The Loring Genealogy: Generation 1
The Loring Genealogy: Generation 2
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