Exhibit

Excerpts from Josselyn genealogy: "Genealogical Research in England," Elizabeth French, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 71, July 1917.

1. Sir Gilbert Jocelyn, a wealthy Norman knight, came into England, it is said, with the Conqueror, and married the daughter of a Saxon thane. He settled in Lincolnshire, where he held of Gilbert of Gaunt the lordships of Semperingham and Tyrrinton.

2. Geoffrey Jocelyn, born about 1091, inherited his father's lands, his elder brother having taken holy orders. He married ___ de Bisset, daughter of John.

3. William Jocelyn married Oswalda Goushall, daughter of Sir Robert, Knight.

4. Robert Jocelyn married ____ Fleming, daughter of John.

5. James Jocelyn, of co. Essex, married Joan Threckenholm or Throckingholden, daughter of Henry.

6. Henry Jocelyn married Jane Chastelin, daughter and heiress of William and Joan (Sulliard).

7. Ralph Jocelyn, living in 1201-2, married Beatrice ___. He held lands in Easton, co. Northampton, in the reign of King John.

8. John Jocelyn, living in 1225-6, married Katherine Battell, daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas, Knight, by his wife Elizabeth (de Enfeild), who was daughter and heiress of Sir Richard de Enfeild, Knight. John Jocelyn held lands in Easton and Appletree, co. Northampton, which he gave to the Prior and Canons of Bradenstok.

9. Thomas Jocelyn, who died after 1277, married, about 1248, Maud Hide, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Hide of the Hide, Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, Knight, by his wife Elizabeth (Sudley), who was daughter of John, Lord Sudley, of co. Gloucester. Maud (Hide) Jocelyn survived her husband, and married secondly Nicholas de Villiers. By the marriage of Thomas Jocelyn with Maud Hide the manor of the Hide, or Hide Hall, as it was later called, passed into the possession of the Josselyn family, who held it for almost six hundred and fifty years, until, in 1897, it passed by will to Sophia, widow of the fifth Earl of Roden, a nobleman who had died without male issue. A charter of "Thomas son of John" is still preserved in the family.

10. Thomas Jocelyn, of Hide Hall, Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, born about 1249, died about 1284. He married first Alice Liston, daughter of William; and secondly Joan Blount, daughter of John.

11. Ralph Jocelyn [second son of Thomas and Alice], of Hide Hall, Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, and of the manor of Shellow-Bowels [footnote: There is also a parish in co. Essex called Shellow-Bowels.] in the parish of Willingale-Doe, co. Essex, born at Shellow-Bowels 13 Dec. 1275, died after 1312-13 and before 1323. He married first Anne Sandys, eldest daughter of William; and secondly Maud Sutton, daughter of Sir John, who married secondly Roger de Berners and died in 1354-5.

Ralph Jocelyn succeeded his [older] brother Thomas about 1284, and had livery of his father's lands in Oct. 1297, having proved his age. In his deposition on this occasion Ralph de Merk of Roothing, co. Essex, aged forty years, stated that Ralph Jocelyn, son of Thomas, was twenty-one years of age on the Feast of St. Lucy the Virgin previous, that he was born at Shellow and was baptized in the parish church of Willingale-Doe on the fourth day after his birth, and that he, the deponent, held him at the font and gave him his name.

Ralph Jocelyn held court at Shellow-Bowels in 1298. On 8 Oct. 1302 he held one and a half knight's fees in Shellow and Sawbridgeworth. In 1309 he was a commissioner to collect a tax in Hertfordshire, for the war with Scotland. He was living 24 Feb. 1312/13.

12. Jeffrey Jocelyn, of Hide Hall in Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, and of the manor of Shellow-Bowels or Shellow-Jocelyn in Willingale-Doe, co. Essex, died between 1360 and 1373. He married Margaret Rokell, daughter of Robert. On 28 Dec. 1338 he leased the manor of Shellow-Jocelyn to Robert de Marshall of Northweld and Margery his wife during their lives, subject to a rent charge of £6 a year during the life of his (Jeffrey's) mother. This manor passed out of the Josselyn family into the possession of the Torrell family, being called Torrell's Hall or Shellow-Torrell; but it came again into the possession of the Josselyns some two hundred years later.

13. Ralph Jocelyn, of Hide Hall in Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, succeeded to his father's lands not later than 1373 and died about 1383. He married Margaret de Patmer, daughter and heiress or coheiress of John, this John de Patmer being son of John and Sara de Patmer and grandson of Philip de Patmer of Patmer Hall and his wife, who was daughter and heiress of John Bawde of Somerby, co. Lincoln. In 1373 Ralph Jocelyn held half a knight's fee in Sawbridgeworth.

14. Jeffrey Jocelyn, of Hide Hall in Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, died in 1425. Perhaps he married first Katherine ____, daughter of Thomas, Lord Bray; [footnote: Katherine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Bray, may have been the first wife of Jeffrey's son Jeffrey.] and he married, perhaps secondly, Joan ____, who is said to have been daughter of Thomas Berrie. On 17 Oct. 1394 he is recorded as about to go into Ireland in the King's service, with Thomas de Percy, steward of the King's household. By his will of 1424, which is now missing, he left Hide Hall to his son and heir Thomas, subject to the dower of his wife Joan.

16. [4th child and 2nd son of Jeffrey (14) and his first wife] Jeffrey Josselyn died 2 Jan. 1470/1. He married first Katherine ____; [footnote: As has been stated above, Katherine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Bray, may have been the wife of Jeffrey (16) rather than the wife of his father (14).] and secondly, Joan ____. A memorial brass in the church at Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, where they are buried, is inscribed "Hic iacent Galfredus Ioslyne & Katherine, ac Joanna vxor eius, qui obiit ii Januar M ccc lxx." [footnote: Some authorities say that the reading in the inscription is "xx Januar," not "ii January."]

(unnumbered) [6th child and 4th son of Jeffrey (14) and his first wife] Sir Ralph, Knight, b. at Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts; d. s.p. 25 Oct. 1478; m. (1) Margery ___; m. (2) Philippa Malpas, who was living 28 Jan. 1450/1, when her husband bought the manor of Aspenden, co. Herts, dau. of Philip, Lord Mayor of London in 1448; m. (3) Elizabeth Barley, dau. of William or Henry of Aspenden, co. Herts. Elizabeth (Barley) Jocelyn m. (2) Sir Robert Clifford of Brakenborough, Knight, third s. of Lord Clifford, and d. between 1 May 1525 and 20 July 1526. The church at Long Melford, c. Suffolk, contains a fine, old, stained-glass window representing Sir Robert Clifford, his wife Elizabeth, and her first husband, Sir Ralph Jocelyn. Sir Ralph is first of record in 1433, as of Aspenden, being mentioned as one able to spend £10, perhaps in anticipation of a royal loan. He was a member of the Company of Drapers of London, was elected alderman from Cornhill Ward 29 Nov. 1456, was master of the Company of Drapers in 1457-8, sheriff in 1458-9, auditor in 1464, lord mayor in 1464-5, and was created a Knight of the Bath by Edward IV at the coronation of his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, 24 May 1465. He was a member of Parliament for London in 1467, and was again elected lord mayor in 1476. In his mayoralty Sir Ralph had the wall of London repaired between Aldgate and Aldersgate and the Fleet Ditch cleaned. He also corrected the abuses of the bakers and victuallers. In 1471, in the Wars of the Roses, when the Kentish levies under Thomas Neville, the Bastard of Fauconbridge, attacked Bishopsgate and Aldgate, London, in an attempt to rescue Henry VI from his imprisonment in the Tower, Sir Ralph raised forces and, sallying forth, defeated Neville and his men. From the point of view of public service he was certainly the most prominent man of the family. He was bur. in St. Swithin's Church, London, of which he was a benefactor, in "a fair tomb," which was destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666.

18. [1st child of Jeffrey (16) and Katherine] John Josselyn, of Sheering, co. Essex, died before Aug. 1524. He married Anne ____.

20. [1st child of John (18) and Anne] Ralph Josselyn, of Much or Great Canfield, co. Essex, the testator of 1525, born about 1475, died after 30 May 1525. He married Elizabeth Cornish, daughter and coheiress of William, who survived him, and, with her daughter Agnes, was a legatee in the will of Philippa Josselyn, widow of John [Josselyn] (19) of High Roding, co. Essex, dated 15 Oct. 1530. Ralph Josselyn was heir in reversion to the lands of this John of High Roding, his second cousin, in case of the death of John's sons and nephews without male issue. He was taxed on goods valued at £26 in 1523/4 and 1524-5; and his widow was taxed on lands valued at 40s. a year from 1542 to 1546, after which no record of her has been found. He probably held his lands in Great Canfield of John Josselyn (19).

22. [3rd child and 2nd son of Ralph (20)] Ralph Josselyn, of Much or Great Canfield, co. Essex, and later probably of Fyfield, co. Essex, born about 1503, probably died before 1546, as his name is not found in the very complete subsidy for that year, although the names of his mother and his sons appear. No will or administration of his estate is now extant. The name of his wife is unknown.

24. [2nd child and 2nd son of Ralph (22)] John Josselyn, of Fyfield, Chignal-Smealy, and Roxwell, co. Essex, born about 1525, was buried at Roxwell 18 Feb. 1578/9. He married at Fyfield, 15 Jan. 1544/5, Alice Nevell, widow, probably the Widow Joslin who was buried at Roxwell 31 Jan. 1600/1.

John Josselyn is first of record at Fyfield, where he lived for a year and a half, at least, after his marriage. Between 16 June 1546, when he is taxed at Fyfield, and 20 Apr. 1547, when he is taxed at Chignal-Smealy, he moved to the latter parish, six miles northeast from Fyfield, although one of his children was later baptized in the latter place, probably having been born there while her mother was visiting relatives. At some time between 1551/2 and 1561 he moved to Roxwell, which lies between Fyfield and Chignal-Smealy, and there he lived the rest of his life. A glance at the map of Essex shows how close to the old ancestral seats of the family this branch of it remained. Fyfield is six miles from Great Canfield, seven miles from Newhall Josselyn in High Roding (both parishes being in co. Essex), five miles from Hide Hall in Sawbridgeworth, co. Herts, and two miles from Torrell's Hall, anciently called Shellow-Jocelyn, in Willingale-Doe, co. Essex. Roxwell is six miles from Newhall Josselyn, ten miles from Hide Hall, two miles from Torrell's Hall, seven miles from Great Canfield, and five miles from Fyfield. By a fine dated 1 and 18 May 1573 John Josselyn acquired of William Water the property called Bollinghatch in Newland hamlet in the parish of Roxwell, consisting of a house, garden, orchard, one hundred and forty acres of land, ten acres of meadow, ten acres of pasture, and ten acres of wood. This property, now called Boldinghatch, lies about two miles northeast from the church at Roxwell and about half a mile from Good Easter, co. Essex . . . At the time of his death John Josselyn also held of the Queen a house and land called Searles in Roxwell, with other land in Roxwell held of the manor of Fambridge End and land called Thistledowns in Shellow-Bowels and Willingale-Doe held of Henry Josselyn [a 4th cousin] as of his manor of Torrell's Hall.

26. [6th child and 4th son of John (24)] Ralph Josselyn, of Roxwell, co. Essex, yeoman, the testator of 1626, born probably at Chignal-Smealy, co. Essex, about 1556, was buried at Roxwell 19 Mar. 1631/2. He married first, at Roxwell, 21 May 1583, Mary Bright; and secondly Dorothy ____, who survived him and was buried at Roxwell 16 Oct. 1634.

28. [5th child and 3rd son of Ralph (26) and either Mary or Dorothy] Thomas Josselyn, of Roxwell, co. Essex, and Barham, co. Suffolk, England, and of Hingham and Lancaster, Mass., probably born at Roxwell late in 1591, died at Lancaster 3 Jan. 1660/1. He married, in England, about 1615, Rebecca ____, who survived him and married secondly, at Lancaster, 16 May 1664, William Kerley of Lancaster. She evidently died before her second husband, as in the will of the latter, dated 26 July 1669 and proved 19 July 1670, she is not mentioned.

Thomas Joslin, as he spelled the name, probably received his portion of his father's estate at the time of his marriage, as his father, in his will of 1626, bequeathed to him only £5. As the baptisms of his children are not recorded in the parish registers of Roxwell, it is certain that he was not living there when his children were born. He was of Barham, co. Suffolk, just before his emigration to New England, and his daughter Mary was baptized at Barham 16 Mar. 1633/4. In Apr. 1635 he embarked for New England in the Increase of London, the passenger list containing the names of Tho: Jostlin, husbandman, aged 43, Rebecca his wife, aged 43, Eliza: Ward, a maid servant, aged 38, and the following children of the said Tho: Jostlin: Rebecca, aged 18, Dorothy, aged 11, Nathaniell, aged 8, Eliza, aged 6, and Mary, aged 1. [footnote: Cf. Drake's Founders of New England, p. 20, and Hotten's Original Lists, p. 55.] On his arrival in New England he settled in Hingham, where he was a proprietor and town officer, and bought land of his son-in-law Thomas Nichols in 1638. He and his son Nathaniel sold their lands at Higham 11 Mar. 1652/3 to George Lane and Moses Collier, and removed to Lancaster, where Thomas signed the civil compact 12 Nov. 1654. In his will, dated 9 May 1660 and proved 2 Apr. 1661, he appoints his wife Rebecca executrix, and mentions his sons Abraham and Nathaniel, grandson Abraham (son of Abraham), and daughters Rebecca Nichols, wife of Thomas, Mary Sumner, wife of Roger, and Elizabeth "Emons."

It has been supposed by some writers that the kinship between Thomas Joslin or Josselyn and the more noted Henry Josselyn and John Josselyn of Maine was very close, one writer representing Thomas as the elder half brother of Henry and John. Although this kinship [they were sixth cousins] was a somewhat distant one, in old historic families like the Josselyns the ties of blood were strong, and as Torrell's Hall, the ancestral home of Henry and John, was but a mile from Bollinghatch in Roxwell, where Thomas Joslin passed his youth, it seems certain that they were well known to one another. It also seems probable that, having no children of his own to inherit his property, Henry Josselyn induced his kinsman Thomas to send to him his eldest son Abraham, intending to make him his heir. Abraham certainly went to Scarborough, Me., and lived there for seven years. Whether he quarrelled with his kinsman or tired of the wilderness is not clear, but he returned to his relatives in Lancaster. He died several years before his kinsman Henry, and it is not known what disposition was made of the property of the latter.

Abraham [2nd child and 1st son of Thomas (28)], mariner, b. abt. 1619 [in England]; d. at sea, off the coast of Virginia, in the ship Good Fame of New York, between 16 Mar. 1669/70, when he made his will, and 7 Apr. 1670, when his will was proved at Fort James, Province of New York; m. Beatrice Hampson, b. in England abt. 1623, d. in Boston, Mass., and bur. 11 Jan. 1711/12, aged 88, dau. of Philip, citizen and merchant tailor of London, who in his will, dated 2 June 1654 and proved 4 July 1654, makes bequests to his daughter Beatrice Josselyne, her husband Abraham Josselin, and their children Abraham and Philip, the death of the latter nearly two years previously and the birth of another son being apparently unknown to him. Abraham Joslin may have had an earlier wife, the mother of his son whose death is recorded in the diary of Rev. Ralph Josselin, 1 Sept. 1644, and he may have married Beatrice Hampson on his trip to England in the following year. Beatrice (Hampson) Josselyn survived her husband and m. (2) at Lancaster, Mass., 16 Nov. 1671, Sergt. Benjamin Bosworth. It is not known when Abraham Josselyn emigrated to New England, but he lived first at Hingham, Mass., and when his parents and brother moved to Lancaster, Mass., he moved to Black Point or Scarborough, Me., where his kinsman [sixth cousin] Henry Josselyn was living. About 1659 he sold his property in Scarborough, which included a hill referred to in deeds as Abraham Josselyn's "Great Hill," and removed to Boston about 1660. By 1663 he had rejoined the rest of the family at Lancaster, which was his residence until his death. In his will he mentions his wife, his eldest son Abraham, and his son Henry, whom he desires to be good to his brothers and to take one of them to learn his trade. Children: . . . 4. Henry, blacksmith, b., probably at Scarborough, abt. 1652; d. at Hanover, Mass., 30 Oct. 1730; m. at Scituate in the Plymouth Colony, 4 Nov. 1676, Abigail Stockbridge, b. at Charlestown, Mass., 24 Feb. 1660/1, d. 15 July 1743, dau. of Dea. Charles and Abigail (Pierce); perhaps he was left behind at Scarborough with Henry Josselyn, the kinsman for whom he was named, when his parents returned to Massachusetts in 1659, for he is said to have moved to Scituate from Scarborough in 1669; fourteen children.