2 jFamUjj of 3o!jn Sossrlun. 



and influential men in it;" holding, "during all the 

 changes of proprietorfhip and government, the moft im- 

 portant offices." He is then a magiftrate of the Duke of 

 York's Province of Cornwall, and, as late as 1680, a resi- 

 dent of Pemaquid; when he is fpoken of, in a letter of 

 Gov. Andros to the commander of the fort at Pemaquid, 

 as one " whom I would have you ufe with all fitting 

 reflect, confidering what he hath been and his age." He 

 is living in 1682; but had died before the 10th of May, 

 1683, 1 leaving no defcendants. 2 



Notwithstanding the evidence, above afforded, of the 

 focial pofition of the family of which Henry and John 

 Joflelyn were members, the prefent writer failed in 

 tracing it, doubtlefs from not knowing in which county 

 it had its principal feat. In this uncertainty, it occurred 

 to him to make application to the eminent Englifh an- 

 tiquary, — the Rev. Jofeph Hunter, Vice-Prefident of 

 the Society of Antiquaries of London, — to whom he 

 was indebted for former kind attentions; and was 

 favored by this gentleman with fuch directions as left 

 nothing to be defired. " The Jofllines," writes Mr. 

 Hunter ("the name is written in fome variety of ortho- 



1 Willis, in N. E. Geneal. Register, vol. ii. p. 204; and New Series of the 

 same, vol. i. p. 31. Williamson, Hist, of Maine, vol. i. p. 682. 



2 Dr. T. W. Harris, in N. E. Geneal. Register, vol. ii. p. 306, has corrected 

 the mistake of Williamson and other writers as to Henry Josselyn of Scituate's 

 being of kin to Mr. Josselyn of Black Point; and Mr. Willis, who had adopted 

 the same error in his first paper, already cited, now admits, in his second, that 

 there is not " any evidence that" the proprietor of Black Point " left any children, 

 or ever had any." 



