himself from
Boston soon after that occurrence, as he did not go with the other
consignees to the castle. He married Hannah, daughter of Commodore
Joshua Loring, and left her a widow, with one son and four daughters.

[32] Abraham Lott, of New York, was treasurer of that colony, and died
in New York, 1794; aged sixty-eight. In September, 1776, he was ordered
by the Whig Convention to settle his accounts as treasurer, and pay over
the balance to his successor. In August, 1781, some Whigs went in a
whale boat to his residence, robbed him of six hundred pounds, and
carried off two slaves. In 1786, the Legislature of New York passed an
Act, "more effectually to compel Abraham Lott to account for money
received while he was treasurer of the colony, and for which he has not
accounted."

[33] Colonel John Erving, Jr., a flour merchant, on Kilby Street,
Boston, and a graduate of Harvard College, (1747,) was in 1778,
proscribed and banished, and in 1779 his property was confiscated under
the Conspiracy Act. His mansion, on the west corner of Milk and Federal
Streets, was afterwards the residence of Robert Treat Paine, a signer of
the Declaration of Independence. Prior to the Revolution Irving was
colonel of the Boston regiment. In 1760, he signed the Boston memorial
against the acts of the revenue officials, and was thus one of the
fifty-eight merchants who were the first men in America to array
themselves against the officers of the Crown. But, in 1774, he was an
addressor of Hutchinson, and was appointed a mandamus councillor. In
1776, he fled to Halifax, afterwards went to England, and died at Bath,
in 1816; aged eighty-nine years. His wife, Maria Catherina, youngest
daughter of Governor Shirley, died a few months before him. George
Erving, his brother, also a loyalist, died in London, in 1806; aged
seventy.

[34] Henry Lloyd, a merchant of Boston, agent of the contractors for
supplying the royal army, was an addressor of Gage, in 1775. In 1776, he
went to Halifax, and was proscribed and banished in 1778. He died in
London, late in 1795, or early in 1796; aged eighty-six. His place of
business was at No. 5 Long Wharf.

[35] Mansell was a South Carolina loyalist, whose estate was
confiscated, in 1782.

[36] The firm of Willing, Morris & Co., established in 1754, was the
most extensive importing house in Philadelphia. They worked actively and
zealously for the non-importation articles of agreement, after the Stamp
Act a