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(VIII) Jacob Dakin, son of William Brad- ley Reed, was born in Amenia, New York. August 8, 1834, died in Norwich, New York, October 22, 1904. For many years he was in the produce business and was a large dealer in butter and cheese. For twenty years he was a buyer of hops for the Uhlmanns of New York, and was active in business up to the time of his death. He lived in Norwich for thirty years. He married ( first ) Decem-
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ber 6, 1859, Harriet Randall; (second) Feb- ruary 12, 1873, Ettie Phebe Rowe, who died in 1880; (third) J. Vernette Tanner. Child by first wife: William Bradley, born May II, 1868, died May 13, 1868. Child by second marriage ; John O. Hill, mentioned below.
(IX) John O. Hill, son of Jacob Dakin Reed. was born at Norwich, New York, Feb- ruary 28, 1880. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Norwich high school, and was graduated from the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1900. Since then he has been active in business and public affairs. He was elected president of the incorporated village of Norwich in March, 1907, and re-elected in 1908-09-10, making one of the most efficient and successful chief magistrates that has been at the head of the municipal corporation. In politics he is a Republican, but he has shown during his public career that he has the confi- dence and support of good citizens. regardless of party affiliations. To an unusual degree he has won the popular support and esteem, and his influence has always been exerted to pro- mote the best interests of the community. He is a member of the board of education ; a direc- tor of the National Bank of Norwich; of the Norwich Knitting Company; trustee and an active member of the First Baptist Church ; member of the Alert Hose Company and a loyal supporter of the fire department of the village : director of the Chenango County Ag- ricultural Association. He holds extensive real estate interests that occupy a large share of his time and attention. He belongs also to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He married, April 16, 1903, Gertrude Louise Nash, of Pooleville, New York, daughter of George Elijah and Henrietta ( Richmond ) Nash (see Nash VIII).
(Royal Lineage of Reed).
(I) Charlemagne, Emperor of the West. born A. D., 742. (II) Louis L. (III) Charles II. (IV) Louis II. (V) Charles III. (VI) Louis IV. (VII) Charles, Duke of Lorraine. (VIII) Gerberge. (IX) Lambert III. (X) Henry II. (XI) Godfred I. (XII) Adeli- cia. (XIII) William, second Earl of Arun- del. (XIV) William, third Earl of Arundel. (XV) Lady Mabel d'Alluni. (XVI) Emma de Tatteshall. (XVII) Sir Hugh de Cailly. (XVIII ) Sir William de Cailly. (XIX)
John de Cailly. (XX) John Cayley. (XXI) William Cayley. (XXII ) Jennett Cayley.
(XXIII) John Lake. (XXIV) John Lake. (XXV) Lancelot Lake, of Normanton.
(XXVI) John Lake, of Normanton. (XXVII) Lancelot Lake, of Normanton. (XXVIII) John Lake, of Erbv. (XXIX) Richard Lake, of Erby. (XXX) John Lake, of Erby. (XXXI) Hannah Lake, married Captain John Gallup Jr., of Stonington, Con- necticut. (XXXII) John Gallup, married Elizabeth Hanis. (XXXIII) Captain John Gallup, married Elizabeth Wheeler, of Sto- nington, Connecticut. (XXXIV ) Martha Gal- lup. married Thomas Douglass. (XXXV) Mary Douglass, married Ezra Clark. (XXXVI) Olive Clark, married Jacob Dakin. Their daughter, Mary Ann Dakin, married William Bradley Reed (see Reed VII ).
(The Nash Line).
(I) James Nash, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled early at Wey- mouth, Massachusetts, probably in 1638. He was a shoemaker by trade and a yeoman. He was admitted a freeman in May, 1645, and was a town officer in 1648. He sold land and a wharf in Boston, January 29, 1651, and was deputy to the general court from Weymouth in 1655-62-67. His estate was administered by his sons, John, of Boston, a cooper, and Jacob. of Weymouth, appointed December 31. 1680. He had "water works" at Marshfield in 1651. He married Alice Children : John, whose wife Mary died in Weymonth. October 8. 1662; Jacob, mentioned below : James.
(II ) Lieutenant Jacob Nash, son of James Nash, was born about 1640, died March 13, 1717-18. He settled at Weymouth and was admitted a freeman in 1686. He married \bi- gail Children, born at Weymouth : Jacob, December 4, 1667 : Joseph, October II, 1669: John. mentioned below : Abigail, An- gust 17. 1673: Mary, March 20. 1675, married Samuel Porter ; Thomas, January 11, 1681 ; Benjamin, March 24, 1685: Alice, 1686, mar- ried William Reed : James, settled in Abing- ton : Sarah, married Samuel Pool ( the last two on authority of "Hobart's History of Abing- ton").
(III) Sergeant John Nash, son of Lieuten- ant Jacob Nash, was born at Weymouth, Oc- tober 8. 1671. His wife Mary died December 10. 1739. Children, born at Weymouth : Mary,
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September 21, 1695: Jacob, mentioned below ; Jonathan, March 17. 17II : David, July 23, 1713.
(IV) Jacob (2), son of Sergeant John Nash, was born at Weymouth, May 29, 1697. He married - Children, born at Wey- mouth : Sarah, October 29, 1722; Mary. Sep- temiber 29, 1724: Jacob, November 2, 1727, married Margaret Higgins: Abigail, August 8, 1729 : Thomas, June II, 1732, died in Wey- mouth, married Elizabeth Vining : Rachel, October 4. 1734; Elijah, mentioned below ; Joshua, November 14, 1745.
(V) Elijah, son of Jacob (2) Nash, was born at Weymouth, February 2, 1737. He was a soldier in the revolution from Wey- mouth in Captain Joseph Trufant's company, Colonel Josiah Whiting's regiment, in 1776- 77, on guard duty on the coast at Hull. About 1777 he removed to Plainfield, Massa- chusetts. In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was at Plainfield. and had in his fam- ily two males over sixteen, one under that age and six females. He married, at Weymouth, February 7. 1765, Hannah Thayer. Children : I. Jacob, born 1760-61, was a soldier in the revolution in 1775 : again in 1778 from Plain- field, when he gave his age as seventeen years ; in 1790 he was the only head of family of this surname in Plainfield, except Elijah, and had two females (see p. 164, Plainfield History ). 2. Elijah, born about 1775 : came from Plain- field, Massachusetts, to New York in 1797. 3. Thomas, mentioned below.
(VI) Thomas, son of Elijah Nash, was born in Plainfield, Hampshire county, Massa- chusetts, March 24, 1788. He married and among his children was Elijah F., men- tioned below.
(VII) Elijah F., son of Thomas Nash, was born in Hamilton, New York, December 11, 1814, died in 1884. He married (first). No- vember 24, 1836, Lucina Blanding, who died May 28, 1877. Children: George Elijah. mentioned below : Charles B., born June 14, 1842: Almeron T., born August 14, 1844, died June 1, 1902. Married (second ). December II, 1877. Elmira Langdon, who died in Sep- tember, IQII.
(VIII ) George Elijah, son of Elijah F. Nash, was born August 16, 1838, died August 18, 1900. He married Henrietta Richmond. born December 18, 1840, died December 14. 1905. Their daughter, Gertrude Louise, mar- ried John O. Hill Recd (sec Reed IX ).
(III) Henry Patrick, son of PATRICK Robert Patrick (q. v.), was born in Stillwater, Saratoga county, New York, August 26, 1791, died in Cuyler, New York, October 8. 1862. He was educated in the public schools, and followed farming for his principal occupation, but was also a shoemaker and tanner. He held the offices of road commissioner and of deputy sheriff. Ile married, April 7. 1816, Clarissa Keeler, born February 24, 1795, at Poland, Vermont, died at Cuyler, May 20, 1880. Chil- dren : Julianna, born April 1, 1817, died April 25, 1865; George Henry, November 8, 1818; Halsey S., May 27, 1820, died September 21, 1886: Eliza, February 24. 1822, died Febru- ary, 1881 : Clarissa Cordelia, May 9, 1826; Charlotte Sophia, August 9. 1827, died Au- gust 19. 1888: DeWitt Milton, mentioned be- low : Harvey Devillo, born June 15. 1834, died July 28. 1842: Joseph Keeler, July 27, 1836, died August 15, 1842.
( IV) DeWitt Milton, son of Henry Pat- rick, was born in Cuyler, New York, August 28. 1828, died September 19. 1902. He re- ceived a common school education in the pub- lic schools, and followed farming most of his life in what is now the town of Cuyler, then a part of Truxton. For a year or two he lived in the west and followed farming in Illinois. He returned to Cuyler in 1856. His farm there comprised five hundred acres of land. In 1877 he retired from active business. and removed to a small place in the village of Truxton, where he spent the last twelve years of his life. In politics he was a Republican. He served as road commissioner both in Cuy- ler and Truxton townships. He married. March 20, 1849. Sabra Risley, born in the town of Cuyler, then Truxton, New York, March 20, 1825, daughter of Waite and Polly (Couch) Risley ( see Risley VI). Children : 1. Allette B., born May 20, 1850: married Albert Stevens, a miller of Truxton; their son, Fred D., married Vera Stewart and has a son Gerald. 2. Otis D., mentioned below. (V) Otis Dwight, son of DeWitt Milton Patrick, was born in Bonus, Boone county, Illinois, December 5. 1855. He came to Cuy- ler. New York, with his parents when he was one year old, and attended the public schools there, the State Normal School at Cortland, and the Eastman Business College at Pough- keepsie, New York, from which he was gradu- ated in the class of 1876. After working for
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a time as clerk in a Truxton store and for two years on his father's farm, in 1880 he en- gaged in business in partnership with Frank L. Hilton, of Truxton, under the firm name of Hilton & Patrick, as general merchants. In 1890 he bought the interests of his partner and continued in business alone for a year, when he sold the store, and, in partnership with Mr. Hilton, under the name of Hilton & Patrick Company, engaged in the wholesale produce business at Cuyler. The firm has been prosperous and stands high in the esti- mation of the community.
Mr. Patrick also transacts a general insur- ance business and holds a commission as notary public. He is financially interested also in the Bryant Furniture Company, and is secre- tary and manager of the Truxton & Cuyler Telephone Company. The firm bought the hotel property and converted it into store buildings and in 1892 established the Truxton Last Company. He has always taken an in- terest in town affairs and politics, and is an influential Republican. He was for two years town clerk and for six years county clerk. He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cortland ; the Royal Arch Masons, of Cortland ; the Knights Templar, of Cortland : Katurah Temple. Mys- tic Shrine, of Binghamton, and of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, of Cort- land. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married. February 11. 1880, Louise F. Kenney, of Truxton, daughter of Oscar J. and Submit (Lewis) Kenney. Children : I. Josephine Louise, born February, 1888; mar- ried Charles McGraw, manufacturer. of Mc- Graw, New York. 2. Donald DeWitt, born April 21, 1895.
( The Risley Line).
(I) Richard Risley, American immigrant, is believed to have descended from the Ris- leys, of Lancashire, England. The surname is spelled Rysley. Wrisley, and in various other ways in the ancient records. The coat- of-arms of the Lancashire family is described : Argent an eagle sable preying upon an infant swaddled gules, bended argent. Crest: An oak tree sable, thereon a raven perched proper. The name de Rysley is found before 1326 in Lancashire. The family is thought to be of Norse origin, though doubtless the English branch came with the Norman conquerors.
He came to this country in the ship "Griffin," sailing from Downs, July 15, 1633, when about twenty years old, and landed at Boston, September 4, 1633. IIe settled with Hook- er's colony in Cambridge, and went with them to Hartford, of which he thus became one of the founders. He died at Hockanum, Con- necticut. in October, 1648. His land was on the south side of Little river on the west side of a road running from George Steele's mill on Little river south to the Great swamp. He served under Major John Mason in the Pe- quot war in 1637. He married Mary - and she married ( second ) Will Hills, of Hart- ford. Children : Child, whose name is not known : Sarah : Samuel, baptized November I, 1645 : Richard, mentioned below.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Ris- ley. was born in Hartford and baptized Au- gust 2. 1648. He was prominent in Hock- anum for seventy-five years, and owned much land: was admitted a freeman in 1669: was fence viewer for the east side in 1687-88- 92-93-94-95-97-98. He and his wife were members of the Hartford Church, and three of their children, whose names are obliterated, were baptized in May, 1687. Children, born at Hartford: John: Samuel, mentioned be- low : Thomas, died in New Jersey ; Nathaniel, Jonathan, Richard, Jeremiah, Charles, Mary. baptized April 23. 1693, and Hannah, bap- tized .April 12, 1695.
(III) Samuel, son of Richard (2) Risley, was born about 1680. He was a freeman be- fore December 23. 1703; fence viewer for Hockanum, 1703-07-12. In 1713 he moved to Glastonbury. He deeded land to his sons and bequeathed more in his will dated May 9. 1752, and proved April 6, 1756. He married, August 1, 1704, Rebecca Gaines. Children : Samuel, Richard, David, Job, mentioned be- low ; Oliver, Thomas, Rebecca, Ruth, Sarah.
(IV) Job, son of Samuel Risley, was born in 1714 at Glastonbury, died in 1798. He was a soldier in the revolution in 1777. He mar- ried (first) Mary Bidwell, who died April 15. 1742; married (second) Beriah Fox. born 1721, died July 2, 1811. Children by second wife: John, born March 3, 1743; Reuben, mentioned below: Benjamin, September 26, 1747 : Beriah, November 21, 1749; Noah, No- vember 21, 1752: Mary, June 30, 1754; Es- ther, March 5. 1756: Samuel, October 21, 1759: George, March 21, 1762: Joseph, July 30, 1765 ; Abigail.
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(V) Reuben, son of Job Risley. was born June 5, 1745, at Glastonbury, died in 1811. He was a soldier in the revolution from Con- necticut in 1777, third corporal under Lieu- tenant Andrus, Sixth Company. Sixth Regi- ment of Militia. He married, April 14, 1768, Mercy Miller, born 1735, died June 23, 1817. Children : Reuben, 1769; Mercy, 1771 ; Susie, 1773; Waite, mentioned below ; Jemi- ma, 1777 ; Roxie, 1779; Noah, 1781; Roger E., 1784; Content, 1786; Truman, 1788, died young ; Truman, September, 1790.
(VI) Waite, son of Reuben Risley, was born in 1775. The records of his family are very incomplete. He married Polly Couch. Two of his children were: Reuben, born 1809, married Harriet M. Andrews ; Sa- bra, born March 20, 1825, married DeWitt M. Patrick (see Patrick IV).
LORING Deacon Thomas Loring, immi- grant ancestor, came from Ax- minster, Devonshire, England, December 22, 1634, with his wife and two sons, and settled in Dorchester, Massachu- setts, in 1635, and later at Hingham, Massa- chuetts, where he was a deacon of the church of which Rev. Mr. Peter Hobart was the pastor. In 1641, when Hull was made a town- ship, he and his family were among the first to settle there, and there they lived the re- mainder of their lives. He married Jane Newton. Children: Thomas, mentioned be- low ; John, born at Axminster, Devonshire. England, December 22, 1630: Isaac, baptized January 20, 1639, died February 9, 1639; Jo- siah, born 1637 and baptized January 9, 1642 ; Joshua, baptized January 9, 1643, died in in- fancy; Benjamin, baptized November 19, 1644.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Deacon Thomas (I) Loring, was born in England about 1629. He was made freeman in 1673 and was select- man of Hull, Massachusetts, in 1671 and 1675. His will, dated December 24, 1678, was proved March 12, 1679, and his heirs divided the property, November 7, 1702, the estate being appraised at six hundred and forty-five pounds. On June 26, 1674, Thomas and John Loring. husbandmen, received a lot from Governor Leverett, of Boston, situated at the south end of Boston, embracing Pine street, "45 feet in breadth, and 200 feet in length. bounded on the west with the new highway leading to Roxbury, on the south by the land
of Daniel Turrellsen, which was formerly Mr. Coleburn's, on the east by the old highway on the seaside, and on the north by the high- way laid out by the said Leverett between his parcel of land and the land of Peter Bennett, together with all the rights of the said Lever- ett south upon the flats to the eastward of said land 45 feet in breadth down to the low water mark."
Hon. William Cushing, a descendant of this branch of the Loring family, was first chief justice of Massachusetts in 1781, nominated by Washington as successor of William Jay in the United States Court; he was the most famous of all the Cushings; it has been said that the "Cushing family has furnished more judicial officers for the state and union than any other which exists."
Thomas Loring married Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, of Hingham, December 13, 1657. She married (second) Captain Stephen French, of Weymouth, and she died October 20, 1720. Children : Hannah, born August 9, 1664, married Rev. Jeremiah Cushing, of Scit- uate, in 1685: Thomas, mentioned below ; De- borah, March 15, 1668, married Hon John Cushing, of Scituate; David, September 15, 1671, settled at Barnstable; Caleb, June 9, 1674, settled at Plymouth ; Abigail, February 5, 1676, died February 1, 1678.
(III) Lieutenant Thomas (3) Loring, son of Thomas (2) Loring, was born July 29, 1667. In 1702 he purchased an estate in Dux- bury, Massachusetts ; in 1710 he had forty acres of common lands from the town, and in 1712 a grant of one hundred and fifty-six acres.
In March, 1694, he was on the grand jury in the trial of an Indian, who was con- victed of murder and sentenced to death. In 1710 he was town treasurer ; in 1714 was se- lectman ; in 1717 was deputy to the general court, and probably the second of the name ever in the legislature. He died at Duxbury, December 5, 1718, and his heirs settled the estate, January 28, 1724. According to the inventory of his estate he had three negroes valued at one hundred pounds, an estate val- ued at five hundred pounds, and a farm in Bridgewater. His widow died November 30, 1755, age seventy-eight. He married, April 19, 1699, Deborah, daughter of Hon. John Cushing, of Scituate. Children: Thom- as, Joshua, Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Ben- jamin, born October 12, 1708; Hannah, De-
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borah, married, February 18, 1728, Sylvester Richmond, of Little Compton, Rhode Island. (IV) Nathaniel, son of Lieutenant Thomas (3) Loring, was born August 21, 1704. He married. 1736, Priscilla Bailey, and settled at Pembroke, Massachusetts. Children : Debo- rah, born June 3, 1738; William, mentioned below : Nathaniel. January 20, 1743; Sarah, June 17, 1746: Abigail, March 15, 1749; Han- nah, February 18, 1751; Priscilla, July 21, 1756.
(\') William, son of Nathaniel Loring, was born October II, 1741, died October 18, 1815. In 1776 he served in Lieutenant Joshua Al- den's company, Colonel Mitchell's regiment, on the alarm of Bristol, Rhode Island. He lived in Duxbury. He married, January 8, 1767, Althea Alden, born September 5. 1735. died April 2, 1820, daughter of Captain Sam- tel Alden, and a descendant of John and Priscilla (Mullen) Alden, of the "Mayflower." Children : William, mentioned below ; George, born February 2, 1770; Ichabod, April 14, 1772 ; Joshua, December 5, 1774; Samuel, No- vember 3, 1775 ; Alden, 1780: Sophia, 1783 ; Clarissa, 1785 : Bailey, December 10, 1786.
(VI) William (2), son of William (I) Loring, was born at Duxbury, May 9, 1768, died in Duxbury. He was a justice of the peace. In 1798 excise duty was levied on his carriage. He married Judith Little, of Pem- broke, Massachusetts, December 18, 1794. Children, born at Duxbury: William Little, mentioned below ; Judith, born October II, 1801, married George B. Standish ; Emeline, January 8, 1806, married Alfred Rogers, of an ancient family which possessed large tracts of land in Pembroke and Marshfield; Bailey Hall, June 2, 1809.
(VII) Dr. William Little Loring, son of William (2) Loring, was born June 15, 1796, at Duxbury, died at his father's house in Dux- bury, July 2, 1842. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1819. and was a physician. He lived at Springfield, Massachusetts. He married Lucy W. Smith, of Hanover, Massa- chusetts, born November 12, 1796, died May 12, 1860. Children: 1. Benjamin W., men- tioned below. 2. Lucy W., born 1822, died in Scranton, Pennsylvania; married Rev. Samuel Logan, a Presbyterian clergyman. 3. Ruth, went to San Francisco in May, 1850. 4. Maria F., born 1826: married James Cars- well, of Barstow, Georgia. 5. Bailey H., born 1828, died in California. 6. Georgia Eliza.
born 1834, died in Scranton ; married Rev. Henry Van Nuys, pastor of First Presby- terian Church at Goshen, Indiana. 7. Sophia B., born 1836; lives in Barstow. Georgia ; married Rev. Dr. William Taylor, a Presby- terian clergyman at Mt. Jackson, Pennsyl- vania, and she has been a missionary to Syria.
(VIII) Lieutenant Benjamin William Lor- ing, son of Dr. William Little Loring, was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, October 19, 1821, died in Owego, New York, December 5, 1902. He served in the civil war for five years in the volunteer navy for the mainte- nance of the Union. He was acting master at first and then promoted to the rank of lieu- tenant for gallant services. The late Rear- Admiral John Rodgers, who commanded the gunboat "Galena" on the James river, re- ported to the navy department upon the four- hour action of that vessel at six hundred yards with Fort Darling, May 15, 1862, as follows : "Acting Master Benj. W. Loring handled his division with great bravery. The port side of his after gun was three times manned afresh, all the men having been twice either killed or disabled." Captain Rodgers was transferred to the new monitor "Weehawken" in 1863, and at his request Lieutenant Loring was also transferred. On April 7, on the occa- sion of the first attack on Fort Sumter. the "Weehawken" led the line of battle. Lieuten- ant Loring, who was in charge of the turret division, sighted the first shot fired at that fort- ification after the Confederate possession. The turret of the "Weehawken" showed signs of disarrangement during this action, and Lieu- tenant Loring went out in the midst of shot and shell to find out the cause. He found a rope jammed by the enemy's shot between the turret base and its rim. He tried in vain to dislodge the rope, and finally passed an end of it into the turret, where it was released by means of a short tackle. He was the inventor of two improvements which made the inter- vals between discharges of the guns two and one-half minutes, instead of seven minutes. making one monitor do the work done before by three. On June 17 in Warsaw sound, Georgia, he sighted five shots at the Confed- erate ram, "Atlanta," which was a counterpart of the historic "Merrimac," and four of them struck vital places and brought down her flag in five minutes from the opening round. The "Atlanta" intended to raise the blockade. sweep the coast, the Potomac river, and an-
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chor before Washington. Admiral Dupont reported on this action saying : "I cannot close this despatch without calling the attention of the department to the coolness and gallantry of Acting Master Benj. W. Loring, especially recommended by Capt. Rodgers. I trust the department will consider his services worthy of consideration." On September 8, 1863, the "Weehawken" grounded under the walls of Sumter and at low tide her hull was exposed. It drew a terrible fire from several Confeder- ate batteries on Sullivan's Island. The "Wee- hawken" beat to quarters and engaged Fort Moultrie exclusively, Lieutenant Loring sight- ing the guns. His second fifteen-inch shell entered an embrasure, dismounting a Colum- biad, killing sixteen men and wounding twelve others. At high tide the vessel floated, all the time exposed to the continnous fire from the Confederate batteries. Lieutenant Lor- ing, then executive officer, directed operations from the turret top. The following are ex- tracts from a letter by Admiral Rodgers, now on file in the navy department : "I wish to recommend to your favorable notice, Acting Master Benj. W. Loring, who was with me on James River in the 'Galena' and who at my request was ordered to the 'Weehawken.' I have a very high appreciation of Mr. Loring's merit as an officer. He is brave, cool, per- fectly temperate in conduct and habits, atten- tive to his duty and ready with ingenions de- vices to meet any unexpected difficulty. In case the service should be permanently ang- mented from the volunteer navy, I do not know a man who would do more credit to the regulars."
Lieutenant Loring preferred not to enter the regular navy, however. In 1864 he was captured and for six months endured the hor- rors of a rebel stockade in Texas, of a county jail and other detestable places used for pris- oners of war, where half his fellow-prisoners lost their lives. He kept his health and was subjected to special attention to insure his safekeeping. He was once tied with cords. He was kept in the guard house at night with a special sentry standing over him, threaten- ing him with death, and he was cast into a dungeon with ball and chain, like a convicted felon in medieval ages. Twice he escaped. The second attempt was made in November. 1864, and in twenty-five days he covered five hundred miles in the pathless Texas wilder- ness, guided only by the sun. During twenty-
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