By Today, we remember our 9th (and 10th) great-grandfather Robert Loveland who passed away on this day 251 years ago, in 1768.
Robert Loveland, son of the English immigrant Thomas Loveland, was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT in 1673. Thomas Loveland had immigrated with his parents, his two brothers and one sister in 1639 at the age of 4, but his father died at sea, wherefore his mother was known in the New World as the Widow Loveland.
So Robert Loveland, first-generation American born, grew up in the area around Hartford and on 19 Aug 1697, he married Ruth Kilham in Glastonbury, CT, which is also where his father Thomas was living at that time. Eventually, the Loveland family settled a little further south-west, in Hebron, CT.
Robert and Ruth had five children together, John, ‘Little’ Ruth, Lot, Robert Jr. and Hannah. When ‘Little’ Ruth was grown up to be ‘Just’ Ruth, she went on to marry our 8th (and 9th) great-grandfather Elisha Andrews, and they were the parents of Lieutenant Robert Andrews who took part in the Battle of Lexington. Robert Jr. appears to have built the first grist mill in Marlborough, Hartford Co., CT around 1750.
Robert Loveland Sr. died on 6 December 1768 in Hebron, and we assume that he was laid to rest there. One cannot be sure as times were unsettled in 1768, after all.
Rest in Peace, Great-Grandpa Loveland.
