Thomas Loring

"[1] His descendants include individuals on both sides of the American Revolution, the US Civil War, and today live across North America, Spain, England and Australia.

... "The church chose him one of its deacons ....[5] Hingham "... reached full maturity when on 12 March 1637/8 Thomas Loring was 'allowed to sell wine & strong water'" as part of his role as innkeeper.

"Our first solid evidence that the church had been formed is the list of freemen of 3 March 1635/6, where we find a grouping of eleven men who were known to be residents of Hingham: [including]...Thomas Loring...[MBCR 1:371] .

The church was founded, then, no later than 3 March 1635/6..." Loring was one of those named in an 1828 inscription on the former "Great Rock" above Hingham which celebrated early settlers: "When wild in wood the naked savage ran, Lazell, Low, Loring, Lane, Lewis, Lincoln, Hersey, Leavitt, Jacobs, King, Jones and Sprague, Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age, And were the first invaders of this country, From the Island of Great Britain, in 1635.

Instead, however, he bought property in the adjoining plantation of Hull,[1] 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 neighbours and others in taking stock in a new plantation, "Sickonke", afterwards called Seakonk and Rehoboth; but he did not remove to the place or continue his ownership of land there.