2 
jFamtljj of Sofytt Sosselgn. 
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 refi- 
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 
refpecl:, 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 
Notwithftanding the evidence, above afforded, of the 
focial pofition of the family of which Henry and John 
Joffelyn 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." 
