Thomas
Josselyn
aka Joslin, Josselyne, Jostlin, Joscelin
Born about in Roxwell, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Son of Ralph Josselyn
and Marie (Bright) Josselyn
[uncertain]
Brother of
Joseph Josselyn I, John Josselyn, Mary (Joslyn) Benton, Anna (Joslyn) Hudson, Ralph Josselyn, Simon Josselyn, Dorothy Josselyn, Richard Josselyn, Joseph Josselyn, Nathaniel Josselyn and Elizabeth Josselyn
Husband of
Rebecca (Jude) Kerley
— married
about 1615 in England
Descendants 
Father of
Rebecca (Josselyn) Nichols, Abraham Joslyn, Joseph Jocelyn, Dorothy Josselyn, Nathaniel (Joslin) Josselyn, Elizabeth (Josselyn) Kilby, Mary (Josselyn) Sumner, Henry Josslyn and John Josslyn
Died
at about age 69
in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
- Thomas Jostlin, husbandman, age 43, "sailed from London in April, 1635" aboard the Increase with his wife Rebecca (43) and children Rebecca (18), Dorothy (11), Nathaniel (8), Elizabeth (6), and Mary (1), as well as servant Elizabeth Ward (38). They originally settled in Hingham, Plymouth County,. later (1654) removing to Lancaster.[1][2]
Birth
- Thomas Josselyn was born about 1592. He was age 43, when he sailed on the Increase.[2] He was the son of Ralph Joselyn of Roxwell, Essex.[3]
Marriage
- Thomas married about 1615, Rebecca (Jude) Kerley. She survived Thomas and m. (2) William Kerley in 1664.[4][5][6][7]
- She was not Rebecca Marlow.
- "Deed from "Ralph Josselin senior of Roxwell in Co. Essex" [Thomas' father] et al., "after the decease of me ... to ... Thomas Josselin[,] one of the sons of me the aforesaid Ralph Josselin the elder, and Rebecca Jude ... after the decease of the said Thomas and Rebecca ... to the use of the heirs of the bodies of the same Thomas and Rebecca ...". This deed gives the maiden name of Thomas's wife. Other evidence given shows Thomas, the son of Ralph, is the emigrant Thomas."[5]
- Issue:
- Abraham Joslin, b. say 1615; m. London 19 November 1642 (lic.) Beatrice Hampton [TAG 53:100]. She m. (2) Lancaster 16 November 1671 Benjamin Boswoth [LanVR14], son of Edward Bosworth {1634, Boston}[GM 2:1:356].
- Rebecca Joslin, bp. Ardleigh, Essex, 27 March 1617 (aged 18 on 17 April 1635[2]); m. by about 1639 Thomas Nicholas (three eldest children bp. together at Hingham in January 1643/4 [NEHGR 121:16])
- Mary Joslin, bp. Ardleigh, Essex, 25 August 1619; d. soon.
- Dorothy Joslin, b. about 1624 (aged 11 on 17 April 1635 [2]); d. Roxbury 2 December 1645 (“Dorothy Jocelyn, a maidservant of Mr. Dudly, she was exceeding lively spirited in bitter pains & left a good savor thereby, she was first taken with an apoplectically sleeping & at the resolution of it it fell upon her lungs which were weak afore, with a pain like a pleurisy” [RChR 172]).
- Nathaniel Josselyn, b. about 1627 (aged 8 on 17 April 1635 [2]); m. by 1657 Sarah King (eldest known child b. Lancaster 15 July 1657 [LanVR 12]; in his will of 12 March 1675/6, Thomas King of Marlborough included a bequest to “Anna Carly, Mary Rice & Sarah Joselin, my 3 daughters” [Stevens-Miller And 82-85, citing MPR 5:23]).
- Elizabeth Joslin, b. about 1629 (aged 6 on 17 April 1635 [2]); m. (!) Boston 21 June 1652 Edward Yeomans [BVR 38]; m. (2) Boston 9 May 1662 Edward Kilby [BVR 86].
- Mary Joslin, bp. Barham, Suffolk, 16 March 1633/4 (aged 1 on 17 Apri 1635[2]); m. by 1657 Roger Sumner (eldest known child b. Dorchester 16 November 1657 [DVR 5]).[4]
Death and Legacy
- 03 Jan 1661, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts.[8]
Note
- His will was recorded at Cambridge, and at a county court held thereon April 2, 1661, his will and an inventory were exhibited and proved.
- His arms were the same as those of Sir Thomas of Torrell's Hall, Essex.
- * "Arms: asure a josslyn silver and sable belled gold.
- ** Crest: A falcon's leg erased at the thigh."
Research Note - Wife
- Thomas Josselyn m. about 1615 Rebecca Jude who d. between 1664 and 1669. She married secondly in Lancaster 16 May 1664 William Kerley who died 1669/1670.
- He was never married to Rebecca Marlowe.
Sources
- ↑ The Winthrop Society (publisher), "Passengers of the Increase, reMaster Robert Lea, Voyage of 1635" (Link via Wayback Machine, capture date 03 Jun 2017.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. (London: John Camden Hotten, 1874.) p. 55
- ↑ Anderson: citing NEHGR 71:250. Genealogical Research in England. $
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, Great Migration, Vol 4, I-L, pgs 117-121. $
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Anderson citing, NEHGR 158:330-340. Joslyn, Roger D. Rebecca, wife of Thomas Josselyn of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. $
- ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering, Pillsbury, Helen Pendleton Winston, Holman, Winifred Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller Concord, N.H. : Privately printed at the Rumford Press 1948 p. 74 (borrow)
- ↑ Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.)
- ↑ Anderson: cites Lancaster Vital Records p. 14
- Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995), 1634-1635, Vol. IV, Pages 117-121.
- The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 48127::211884 $
- Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650. 48159::265731 $ and 48159::265633 $.
- Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004; Baltimore, MD, USA). Ancestry Online publication, 2006; 49055::76306 $.
- Cutter, William R. Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co, 1912, Volume 3, page 1369 Retrieved from [1]
- Find A Grave Memorial #36926498, Thomas Josselyn
- NATHANIEL JOSLIN [#152, b. London, Eng. 12 Jun 1627]
- Skeels, Laura Elmendorf. "The Joscelyn-Joslin Family." Journal of American history 6 (1912): 517-537. link. This article describes a lineage back to Charlemagne via "Gilbertus or Aegedius Joscelinus, born in the Chateau de Jocelin about 1005" who "married a Saxon lady". It's not completely speculative in that it does refer in passing (without footnotes) to some potential sources for his descendants.
- French, Miss Elizabeth. Genealogical Research in England, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1917) Vol. 71, Page 253
- Nourse, Henry S,: "Annals of Lancaster"; page 268 (arrival of family) and 322 (death of Thomas)
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This 2004 article names oldest child as Abraham, then Rebecca, Mary (died young), Dorothy, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, last child Mary bp Barham, Suffolk 1633-4. All of the other "children" should be detached by PGM and reattached if proof shows the NEGHR article is wrong.
"deed, apparently not available to Miss French when she conducted her Josselyn research nearly a century ago, reveals the maiden name of Rebecca, wife of Thomas Josselyn. "We, Ralph Josselin senior of Roxwell in Co. Essex, yeoman, and Simon Josselin of Roxwell, yeoman, have given and confirmed to John Jude of Radwinter in the same county, yeoman, and Ralph Josselin junior of Roxwell, yeoman: one parcel of arable and pasture land containing ten acres, parcel of a certain field called Apsonfield in Roxwell, Newland or Writtle, next to a lane called Pyntayle Lane, and abutting on Pyntayle Lane towards the east, one head abutting on the highway on the north, and the other head on land called Willow Leaz, alias Lowbottom, on the south, To have to them, John Jude and Ralph Josselin junior, their heirs and assigns, to the use and behoof [benefit] of me the said Ralph Josselin the elder for the term of my life, and after the decease of me the aforementioned Ralph Josselin the elder, then to the use and behoof of Thomas Josselin one of the sons of me the aforesaid Ralph Josselin the elder, and Rebecca Jude and the longer liver of them, And after the decease of the said Thomas and Rebecca and of the longer liver of them, to the use of the heirs of the bodies of the same Thomas and Rebecca lawfully begotten, and for the default of such issue then to the use and behoof of the heirs of the body of the same Thomas lawfully begotten, and for the default of such issue then to the use of the right heirs of me the aforementioned Ralph Josselin the elder for ever, in perpetuity, to hold by services first owed and customary. Provided always that if the heirs, executor and administrators of me the aforesaid Ralph Josselin senior, should pay the aforesaid Thomas Josselin and Rebecca, or their attorney etc., the sum of £100 within one year after my decease, at or in the mansion house called Bollinghatche in Roxwell, Newland or Writtle, that this indenture shall be nullified. the conveyance is 29 September 1613, but on the outside of the document is the date 9 Sept 1613,"
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