Solomon Lovell

Brigadier General

Solomon Lovell
Born(1732-06-01)June 1, 1732
Abington, Province of Massachusetts Bay
DiedSeptember 9, 1801(1801-09-09) (aged 69)
Weymouth, Massachusetts
Buried
North Weymouth Cemetery
Allegiance Great Britain
Massachusetts Bay
 United States
BranchBritish Army
Massachusetts Bay Militia
Continental Navy
RankBrigadier General
Signature

Solomon Lovell (1732–1801) was a brigadier general in the militia of Massachusetts Bay during the American Revolutionary War. He 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.


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