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 lean: 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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