Joshua Loring | |
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| Born | 3 August 1716 Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Died | September 1781 (aged 65) Highgate, England, Great Britain |
| Allegiance |  Great Britain |
| Service |  Royal Navy |
| Years of service | c. 1736-1760 |
| Rank | Commodore |
| Battles / wars | King George's War French and Indian War |
| Relations | Joshua Loring, Jr., son Henry Lloyd Loring, son Sir John Wentworth Loring, grandson |
| Other work | member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council under colonial Governor Thomas Gage |
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Joshua Loring (3 August 1716 – September 1781[1]) was an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service. During the French and Indian War, he served as a commodore in the Great Lakes region and was active during much of the Ontario and Quebec campaigns.
- ^ Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy (Cambridge, Mass., 1917), pp. 78-79