Loring (Joshua) is born in Boston.

The son of Joshua and Hannah (Jackson) Loring, Joshua Loring worked initially in the trade, and marries Mary Curtis in 1740. He becomes a privateer and ship captain, is captured by the French, released in a prisoner exchange, and becomes an officer in the Royal Navy. He becomes owner of the former 60-acre Polly Farm in the middle of today’s Jamaica Plain in 1752, and builds a mansion house at today’s 12 South Street in 1760.* Loring is driven from his home into Boston in 1774, and flees with other Loyalist on March 17, 1776. He dies in Berkshire, England, on September 18, 1789.