On 16 Dec 1657 Mary married John Loring (2801) , son of Dea. Thomas Loring (1215) (ca 1600-4 Apr 1661) & Jane Newton (-25 Aug 1672), in Hingham, MA.45 Born 22 Dec 1630 [sic.] in Axminster, Devon.14,165 John was baptized in Axminster, Devon, on 27 Dec 1629.14 John died in Hingham, MA on 19 Sep 1714.165

John first married Mary Baker, second Rachel (Wheatly) Buckland, widow of Benjamin Buckland.

John was freem. 1673, rep. under new chart. 1692.25

From the Loring Genealogy, pages 13–14:107
    John resided in Hull; was town clerk seventeen years, on of the selectmen nine terms, representative in 1692.
    His son Israel became a minister and wrote a very affectionate and particular obituary upon his father, which is preserved in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and in the copy of that document in Mr. James Spear Loring’s manuscript volume in the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Several items of interest are worth quoting:
    “Mr. John Loring while a boy of five years definitely determined to be a good child of his heavenly Father and was earnestly religious all through his life. His wife attributed her own conversion to his influence. He was very solicitous to secure the conversion of his children. He began with them when they were young, tender and flexible, to put them in mind of God their Creator, and the things that belong to their everlasting peace. . . . He was a great reader. . . . His was a rehgious family; the morning and evening sacrifice were duly offered up and on the Lord’s Day evenings the sermons, which at meeting he took down in characters, were repeated.” He cut his foot at one time, and the wound developed into a malignant sore, which gave him extreme pain. After a famous physician of Boston had treated the foot and failed to cure it or relieve the agony, a friend of Mrs. Loring, “Mrs. Whitmore of Medford, a doctress,” came to visit the family and “applying her balsom to his angry wounds he presently had rest and ease and slept soundly the night following; and, with the blessing of heaven upon her endeavors, she effected a cure.” He recovered his health, and lived some time thereafter.

From Ethel Farrington Smith’s article “Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and Her People”:109
    John took the freeman's oath in 1673 and became active in town affairs (Shurtleff, Mass. Bay Records, 4:2:587). He was chosen selectman that year, signing with others the original petition of Hull, dated 9 March 1673, regarding the beacon and town rates (JSL, 109). On 24 April 1684 he and Robert Gould purchased Peddock’s Island from the Indian sachem, Josiah Wompatuck, for £7. At Town Meeting on 1 February 1677, Duck Pond, bordered by Duck Lane, with the nearby beach between Stoney Beach and Gallop's Hill, was granted to John, Thomas, and Benjamin Loring and Samuel Prince in exchange for the corn grinding mill, for the town (ibid.). Thomas and John Loring bought waterfront property at South Boston from John and Sarah Leverett on 6 June 1675 (Suffolk Deeds, 14:214-215).
    John Loring was a juryman at a court of common pleas in 1686, and first representative from Hull to the General Court under the second charter, granted in 1692 by King William III. He and other selectmen presented the bylaws of Hull to the General Court in February 1695 (Hull Town Records, n.p.; JSL, 109-111). His will, dated in 1708, with codicil dated 9 February 1714, was proved 22 October 1714, naming his son John executor. The estate was valued at £971 5s. (Suffolk Co. Probate File 3623). Readers interested in this family should see also The Journal of the Rev. Israel Loring.

John’s will and inventory are quoted on pages 15–19 of the Loring Genealogy.107

Gravestone inscription: “here lyes buried the body of Mr John Loring Decd. Septr. 19. 1714, in Ye 84th year of his age.”45