Loring Peck

Loring Peck (1744-1833) was the thirteenth child of Jonathan Peck and Hannah Loring. He was baptized in the Congregational Church. He married Sarah Richmond in 1772. Loring and Sarah had a daughter named Sarah in 1772 who died young. In 1774, as part of a town-wide effort, he sent a sum of twelve shillings to support the people of Boston (that city’s port having been recently closed by the British). Loring was counted as a head of household in the 1774 Rhode Island Census. In 1776, he was commissioned as a captain in Henry Babcock’s Additional Regiment for Defence. He served in the New York Campaign with Christopher Lippitt’s Regiment. On the march to New York, he commanded a division of four companies. He went ahead of his division to tell tavern keepers not to sell alcohol to his soldiers. As the army moved south after the fall of New York, Captain Peck became ill. Later in the war, he served in the Bristol County Militia‘s Alarm Company. After the war, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the militia. At some point, he seems to have remarried to a woman named Jenney. Loring and Jenney had eight children: Francis, Sarah, Richard, William, Loring, George, Henry, and Richard. In the 1790s Loring sold his land in Bristol and moved to upstate New York.