When Abraham Loomis Jr. was born on 17 October 1724, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Abraham Loomis, was 27 and his mother, Isabel Eggleston, was 27. He married Mary Taylor on 10 February 1757, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 6 March 1788, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in First Ecclesiastical Cemetery, Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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In 1732 the Colony of Connecticut granted to Windsor, Connecticut several townships including Torrington. Ebenezer Lyman Jr. of Durham purchased land from one of the Windsor proprietors and in 1735 became Torrington's first settler. The second area to be settled was the eastern hill known as Torringford. In October 1740, Torrington was given permission to incorporate as a town and organize its own town government and ecclesiastical society. Significant industrial growth began to occur here in 1813 when Frederick Wolcott erected a woolen mill. The small industrial village that grew up around the mill was called Wolcottville for many decades and is now the central business district of Torrington.
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English: habitational name from a lost place near Bury inLancashire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Lumhalghs, andapparently named with the Old English elements lumm ‘pool’ +halh ‘nook, recess’.
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