Person:John Lovell (28)

Name^[1]	John Lovell, "The Tory"
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	16 Jun 1710	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Sep 1734	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Abigail Green
Death^[1]	1778	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadadied in exile

Notes

1717 - entered the Public Latin School
1728 - graduated at Harvard College
1729 - usher of the Latin School
1734 - married Abigail Green
From 1734 to 1778 - appointed Principal Headmaster of the Latin School
19 Apr 1778 - Latin school dispersed by the siege and the subsequent occupation of Boston by the Royalists
considered an "excellent critic and one of the best classical scholars of his day"
1778 - died in Halifax

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Rhodes, May Lovell, and Thomas Daniel Rhodes. A biographical genealogy of the Lovell family in England and America. (Biltmore press, 1924)
168.

John Lovell, (John, called “The Tory”) son of above, born June 16, 1710, married Abigail Green of Bradford, Mass. Sept., 1734 and had a large family. He was a Loyalist and when Boston was evacuated he went with the British Fleet to Halifax where he died an exile from his native country. He was master of the Latin School and a prominent citizen of Boston before the Revolution and during the British occupation.