Hello, Someone has gotten me started thinking about my LORING ancestor, which I haven't done for a long time. I just discovered that the "LORING book" is now on-line at Google / Books. I'd like to offer this paragraph from that book. See below. I believe a few years ago I mentioned my ancestor, Mrs. Elizabeth (LORING) (HOMER) (WINNECK) WELLINGTON. She was born in 1766 to David LORING and Elizabeth FAIRSERVICE. One question which has come up is about the FAIRSERVICE name. I'm not finding anything on-line for this name in regards to the 1700's New England. And there is no List, and the Board has only 2 postings. (No Board at www.genforum.com either.) Has anyone come up with information about it? Also, I have read this afternoon that there is more information on the Mrs. WELLINGTON, above. If you go to the WELLINGTON Boards, you will see that researchers have her having a total of 9 children. With Jacob HOMER, she had a daughter, Betsey. With Mr. WINNECK she had 4 children before divorcing him, and then she had 4 children with Mr. WELLINGTON. Betsey HOMER married Thomas HUTCHINSON, and thus she is my ancestor. Also, Elizabeth LORING's first husband was Capt. Jacob HOMER. From memory, he was a mariner and he died at sea before their daughter was born. I'm pretty sure I discussed him on the Lists several years ago, but I'm not finding my old postings today. Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: 24. David' Loring (David*, Benjamin3, Benjamin*, Thomas1), born at Hull August 19,1742; married February 2, 1764, Elizabeth Fairservice; she survived him and married second November 2, 1778, Thomas Fennen (Fenecy), whom she also outlived, and married March 22, 1798, Capt. Thomas Jenner Carnes. She made her will (residing at West Cambridge) August 6, 1802, bequeathing to "my 3 grandchildren Eliza, Nathaniel* and David Loring and their mother Sarah." She died August 16, 1802. He was a shoemaker; sealer of leather for the town of Boston in 1769, made many shoes for the soldiers of the British army quartered there. Among the depositions taken by the city of Boston relative to the " Massacre" of March 5, 1770, is one by him, expressing the view that the soldiers of the 29th regiment were " a set of bloodthirsty men," quoting the remark of a soldier of that regiment that "it was a planned thing a month before." He sailed in the privateer Sturdy Decke1; Captain Campbell, in 1777, with one hundred men, which took several prizes but was lost in 1778 on the coast of France. The exact date of his death is therefore not known. Children: i. Elizabeth8, b. Apr. 10,1766; m. (1) Capt. Jacob Homer; m. (2) Mr. Winneck of Vermont; m. (3) Col. Jeduthun Wellington, of W. Cambridge. 280. ii. David, b. in 1768. 'Nathaniel, perhaps a clerical error, unless a twin of David. .iii. Sarah H., b. in 1770; m. (1) May 16, 1793, William Bass; m. (2) Nov. 14, 1802, Oliver Steefe, of New Haven. iv. Mary (mentioned in grandfather's will.) v. Hannah (mentioned in grandfather's will.)