INTRODUCTION. 



R. JOHN JOSSELYN, the writer of 



this book, was only brother, as he fays, 

 to Henry Joffelyn, Efq., many years of 

 Black Point in Scarborough, Me.; and 

 both were fons to Sir Thomas Joffelyn, 

 Knt., of Kent, whofe name is at the 

 head of the new charter obtained by Sir Ferdinando 

 Gorges for his Province in 1639, but who did not come 

 to this country. Mr. Henry Joffelyn was at Pifcataqua, 

 in the intereft of Capt. John Mafon, at leaft as early as 

 1634; but, in 1636, he is one of the Council of Gorges's 

 Province in Maine, and continued in that part of the 

 country the reft of his life. He fucceeded in 1643, by 

 the will of Capt. Thomas Cammock, to his patent at 

 Black Point, and foon after married his widow. He 

 is afterwards Deputy-Governor of the Province; and 

 until 1676, when the Indians attacked and compelled him 

 to furrender his fort, he was, fays Mr. Willis, — whofe 

 valuable papers are cited below, — one of the moft active 



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