This was James Lovell, the famous Boston schoolmaster, orator, and
patriot. He was born in Boston October 31, 1737. He graduated at
Harvard in 1756, then became a Latin School usher. He married Miss
Helen Sheaffe, older sister of the "two Miss Sheafs" named herein;
and their daughter married Henry Loring, of Brookline. He was a
famous patriot: he delivered the oration in 1771 commemorative of
the Boston Massacre. He was imprisoned by the British as a spy on
the evidence of letters found on General Warren's dead body after
the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in Windham, Maine, July 14, 1814.
A full account of his life and writings is given in Loring's
_Hundred Boston Orators_.