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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Patriot Ezekiel Loring was born on March 30, 1731 in Hull, Mass to John and Elizabeth Loring. Sometime before 1750, his family moved to North Yarmouth in what is now Maine. There, he married Hannah Buxton from Falmouth, Maine in 1753. They had 7 children including: Lydia Loring, William Loring, Susannah Loring, Catherine Loring, Judith Loring, David Loring, and Cromwell Loring. He died after 1800, possibly as late as 1825, in Cumberland County, Maine.
Patriot Ezekiel Loring served in the military during the Revolutionary War. Records indicate that in August, 1775, Ezekiel Loring served as a Corporal in Captain Benjamin Parker’s Company along the Cumberland County, Maine seacoast. By 1779, Ezekiel Loring advanced to Quartermaster Sergeant and served in Capt. John Gray’s company during the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition (also known as Bagaduce expedition) that occurred in the vicinity of what is now the Maine Maritime Academy. This expedition was 44-ship American task force as well as a ground force of over 1,000 men including a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Col. Paul Revere. The expedition was the largest American expedition of the war that also became the America’s worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor. All 44-ships were lost and 474 patriots were KIA, MIA, or wounded. While the campaign was a disastrous failure, it remains an important event in Maine's Revolutionary history and its outcome in no way diminishes the bravery of the patriots who fought superior forces under difficult circumstances in which they found themselves.
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