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LOVEL, MAJOR JAMES, aged 92, in St. Mathews' Parish, S.
C., 10th instant, at the residence of Dr. T. J. Goodwyn. He was a native
of Massachusetts, son of the Hon. James Lovel, of Boston, and born on the
9th of July, 1758. Major Lovel was well educated, graduating at
Harvard College in July, 1776.
Whilst in college, when the
British made their excursion to Lexington and Concord, he volunteered with
the militia, with Major Brooks, of Col. Bridge's regiment, and continued
with them in the several engagements. Directly after graduating, he took a
commission in the Massachusetts line, in Jackson's regiment; was in the
battle of Monmouth, and in Rhode Island; and in a hard contest at Quaker's
Hill was severely wounded. He went through the campaign of 1780 in Jersey;
and when Gen. Greene was appointed to the southern division of the army,
Major Lovel took a commission in Lee's Legion, and was appointed by him
immediately his adjutant, which office he retained during the remainder of
the war.
He was at the battle of Guilford, and with Sumter and
Pickens in their successful efforts in reducing the many posts kept up as
communications in the country, and was finally engaged in the last
hard-fought field action of the Revolution, the battle of the Eutaw.
After the war, he remained and settled in South Carolina, St.
Mathews' Parish, where he lived and died at a good old age, without
apparent disease or pain, perfectly in his senses, resigned to his fate,
and a communicant of the church.
After the death of Judge Farrar,
he was the oldest living graduate of H. C. until his own
decease.
Source: The
New England Historical and Genealogical Register By Henry Fitz-Gilbert
Waters, pg
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