Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,588, for Joshua Loring, Massachusetts

SERVICE
SERVICE Mass
Loring Joshua Hannah
NUMBER _____
W 21.588
CONTENTS

130 Massachusetts
Hannah Loring widow of Joshua Loring deceased of Plymouth in the State of Mass. who was a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Colb of the 35 commanded by Col Doods in the Mass. line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 320 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Oct. 1836 and at Plymouth Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $1.76.10 Semi-ant. allowance ending Feb 1837 16.00 $1.92.10
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Madison Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 55

I Simon Loring of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts aged Seventy four years testify and say I was a Soldier in the war of the American Revolution and served nine months from the time in May 1779 to January 1780 in Capt Jacob Harkins Company Colo. Jacob Regiment in the State of Rhode Island Stationed at Swansey and Tiverton until the British Left the Island then went on the Island at Bristol I stayed there until Discharged I well knew Joshua Loring of Plymouth who was my Brother. was a Lieutenant in said Harkins Company and served the same term of time of nine months in said Company always knew said Loring who resided in Plymouth until his Death which was in the year 1799 - also knew his widow to the present time and she has always resided in Plymouth and is said Loring always lived within one Mile of them since the war.
Simon Loring
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. September 16 th 1836 Then Personally appeared before the subscriber the above named Simon Loring and made oath that the above statement is true according to the best of his recollection.
I further certify the above named Simon Loring is a man of truth and is a credible witness.
Before Me Jonathan Parker Justice of the peace

I Benjamin Cushman of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts aged Seventy four years testify and say I was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution and served nine months I think from April 1778 to December 1778 in Capt Joseph Coker Company Stationed at Swansea in the State of Rhode Island and in Colo. Jacobs Regiment Joshua Loring of Plymouth was a Lieutenant in said Coker Company the same term of time of nine months always knew said Loring until his death which was over thirty years ago and have known his widow to the present time and has resided in Plymouth since the war always lived near her and is now living Benjamin Cushman
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. September 16 th 1836 Then personally appeared before the subscriber the above named Benjamin Cushman and made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is true I further certify said Deposition
Is a credible witness
Before Me Jonathan Parker Justice of the peace

I Simeon Loring of Plympton in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts in my twenty fourth year of age - testify and say I was brother of Joshua Loring late of Plympton Deceased and well remember of the said Joshua Loring Intersting and going on the Castle Island so called then in Boston harbour for some months I think in the summer of 1776 and was a sergeant in Capt Thomas Furness Company and in Colo. Marshall's Regiment. Sometime in October I made a horse down for him to come home which he did and stayed two weeks and I stayed on the costel the same time in said Company acted in his place in December his time was out and came home Stayed there through winter and Spring. Sometime in the summer or Fall I recollect of his going a - That Company but where I cant recollect - always knew him until his death and knew his widow to the present time and is still living and resides in Plympton
Simeon Loring
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth VIZ September 16 th 1836 then Personally appeared before the Subscriber the above named Simeon Loring and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true I further certify the said Deposition is a credible witness Before me Jonathan Parker Justice of the peace

To whom it may concern.
I hereby certify, that Lt. Joshua Loring and Hannah Campbell, both of the Town of Plympton in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts, were joined in Marriage, January 22, 1778, by the Rev. Ezra Sampson, then the Minister of the Church and First Parish of said Plympton.
The said Lt. Joshua Loring died at Easton, Ms. June 18, 1799, aged 47 years, 6 months and 18 days; he being abroad on a business tour, and suddenly taken ill at said Easton. All which appears from the Records of said Town of Plympton, which are now in my keeping.
I further certify that I was born and have lived in said Plympton, and have been the Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton ever since March 1812.
Also that the said Hannah is now living and residing in said Plympton, and that she has never been married since the death of her husband, the said Lt. Joshua Loring.
The said Hannah has long been a Member of the Church in said Plympton, of which I am a Member, and I never knew her veracity to be doubted.
Lewis Bradford { Town Clerk of the said Town of Plympton. Plympton, September 16. 1836.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss September 17th 1836 Then Personally appeared before the Subscribed the above named Lewis Bradford and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true Jonathan Parker Justice of the Peace
I further certify that said Lewis Bradford is a Man of good Reputation for Truth and is a Credible witness Jonathan Parker Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Registry of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Parker Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the several signatures to the annexed affidavits pur- porting to be his are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court this twenty seventh Day of Septem- ber A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth P.
On this seventeenth day of September in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thi- ty six personally appeared before  Willis Wood Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, Hannah Loring a resident of the town of Plympton in said County of Plymouth, Widow , aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following de- claration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836.
That she is the Widow of Lieutenant Joshua Loring late of Plympton afore- said deceased who served in the War of the Revolution in the several periods & in the capacities herein after set forth
The said Joshua Loring served six months

as a Sergeant in Captain Thomas Turner's Company, in Colonel Marshall's Regiment on Castle Island a Fort in Boston Harbour in 1776 as near as she can ascertain the time.
In the fall of the Year 1777 he served as a Lieutenant in a short campaign but I am unable to name the Company, the place where or the term of time. I recollect he came home unwell had the Measles & after he recovered we were married which was in January 1778. We were published before he went away.
The said Joshua Loring also served nine months as Lieutenant in the Year 1778 in Captain Joseph Coles Company in Colonel Jacobs Regiment & was stationed at Swansey & about Rhode Island. This service commenced in about two or three months after we were married.
The said Joshua Loring also served as a Lieutenant nine months in Captain Jacob Perkins Company in Colonel Jacobs Regiment commencing early in the summer of

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Hannah Loring wid of Joshua Loring Map
Admit a Seal 2yrs
$320 per annum
commencing 4 March
1831
Joshua Loring Seal
3 mo 1 day
Get Seal Reg Capt Harkness
The Seal Reg Capt Harkness
1831
Jacob H. Loring

1779 & running into the winter of the following year I was stationed at Swansea, & in Tiverton & on the island of Rhode Island.
I very well remember to have seen his Com- missins which he had in the time of the Revolution but they are not now to be found, the said Joshua having been so long dead that all such papers are probably destroyed.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Loring on the twenty second day of Janu- ary in the Year Seventeen hundred & seventy eight; that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Loring died on the eighteenth day of June in the Year Seventeen hundred and ninety nine & that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Hannah Loring.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above written Before me & I certify that the said Hannah Loring is a credible person & is unable to travel to attend Court by reason of advanced age & bodily infirmity
Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth

Plymouth Y. I Jacob H Lord Register of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that William Wood Esq is Judge of Probate for said County & that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this seven tenth day of September A.D. 1836.
Jacob H. Lord
No. 284
Hannah Loring
wid of
Jeremiah Loring
Esq
Admrs in Genl. Pys
$320 per annum
commencing 4 March
1836
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File No. 21588
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Wannah Loving widow of Joshua Loving Life - New Was
July 20-1902 U. B. Hatch - Whitman
Act June 1 th 32
Index : Vol 14 , Page 444
[Arrangement of 1870.]

POSTAL CARD - ONE CENT.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.
11 Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Whitman Mass July 1 st 1902
Dear Sir,
I wrote you some time since in reference to the pension of Hannah Loring, I have heard nothing from it - as yet. Can you not send it - to my address at once, that I may send it to the Register General of the D. A. R., as Mrs Packard is my organ to receive her certificate of membership.
Yours sincerely
M. B. Hatch

Brockton Mass June 18 th 1896.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the papers to prove that my Grandfather served in the Revolutionary War. His name Joshua Loring born in Plympton Mass, served in the Army as a Lieutenant, and I think he entered the Army from that town. Will you oblige
Mrs Deborah P. Holmes, # 185. Winthrop St Brockton Mass.

dec.
Capt Col. Co. Cal. Light Arty
6 m. Capt. Munn. P. M. 1875
12. 2
John L. Em. Jan 1878
Jan. 1777
12 mo 2 d
9 Feb 1778
9 " 1878
5. 25
John Lony Jan 5 mo 25 d n 7777 at R. & C. Cal. City Co 6th P. M. 1875 handwritten from the Roll 120
8. 19 26. 16
John Lony Jan 1878 Co I. H. Arty. Co. 8 m. 19 file No 1384 1779 1780
1600.00 160 1760

Probate Office
Plymouth Mass.
Sept 27. 1856
Sir
I send herewith the Applications for Pensions of Priscilla Churchill & Hannah Loring.
Very respectfully, Your Obed. Serv.
J. H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington D. C.

I Nathaniel Goodwin of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth, Esquire of lawful Age to give evidence on oath do testify & say that I am a son of the late General Nathaniel Goodwin of Plymouth aforesaid dec d his Executor. That my said father was Must Inspector in the Revolutionary War for this District & that at his decease his Books & papers came into my possession & among them are two Books containing Lists of the several men raised for different services in the War of the Revolution from this Regiment, orders for the movement of the troops & other matters touching military services.
Among other things therein contained is a record of a Meeting of the Commissioned Officers of the Regiment per Col. Cottons order holden at Tho s Withers house in Plymouth July 30. 1781 to fill up a vacancy of Chief Colonel by reason of Col. Cottons Resignation. After the choice of Officers of the Regiment, a List was made out of the Amount of service done by each Officer in this Regiment up to that time. The service is stated in gross without any particulars.
In this list
Lieut Joshua Loring of the 12 th Company is set down as having served as a Lieutenant 21½ months.
In the same list
Capt. James Churchill of the 3 d Company is set down as having served 1½ months as Captain & 12 months as a Lieutenant.
And the said entries are made in the

handwriting of the said Nathaniel Goodwin. Nathaniel Goodwin
Plymouth Jp. Sept 27, 1836. Then the above named Nathaniel Goodwin personally appeared & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, Before me & I certify that he is a credible person
Jacob H Lord Jus. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Jp. I John B. Thomas Clerk of the Ju- dicial Court for the County of Plymouth do here by certify that Jacob H Lord Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this twenty seventh day of September A.D. 1836.
John B. Thomas

I Billy Wright of Plympton in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts aged Twenty Four years Testify and say I was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution and served nine months in Capt Jacob Harkins Company and Col Jacob May's Regiment in the State of Rhode Island Stationed at Swansey Red Post and New Town in the year 1779 - I well remember Joshua Loring of Plympton being a Lieutenant in said Harkins Company who served the same term of time of nine months always knew the said Joshua Loring until his death which was about thirty five years ago always knew his widow to the present time who is still living - always lived about two miles from him in Plympton since the war - Billy Wright
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. September 16th 1836 then Personally appeared before the subscriber the above named Billy Wright and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true
I further certify that the above named Billy Wright is a man of truth and is a credible witness
Before me Jonathan Parker Justice of the peace