12 Facts About Solomon Lovell

Solomon Lovell was a brigadier general in the militia of Massachusetts Bay during the American Revolutionary War.

Solomon Lovell is best known for leading the land forces during the 1779 Penobscot Expedition, a disastrous attempt by Massachusetts to dislodge a British force from a settlement on a peninsula in Penobscot Bay, present-day Castine, Maine.

Solomon Lovell's father was a Harvard graduate, teacher, and sometime preacher.

Solomon Lovell died when Solomon was quite young, and the boy was raised first by his grandfather Enoch Lovell, and after his death by his stepfather, Samuel Kingman.

Solomon Lovell was active in town affairs, and began serving in the provincial assembly in 1771.

Solomon Lovell was given command of the land forces, and the naval fleet was under the command of Connecticut native Dudley Saltonstall.

Solomon Lovell had, during the war, periodically served as a representative to the state legislature.

Solomon Lovell continued to do so after the war, occasionally serving as town selectman.

When Norfolk County was separated from Suffolk County, Solomon Lovell was given the task of petitioning the legislature to keep Weymouth a part of Suffolk County.

Solomon Lovell was unsuccessful in this effort; Weymouth is in Norfolk County.

Solomon Lovell died in Weymouth on September 9,1801, having outlived his wife by six years.

Solomon Lovell is buried in the Pittey family tomb in Weymouth.