Display Patriot - P-226879 - John JOSLIN/JOSSELYN/JOSLYN Sr
John JOSLIN/JOSSELYN/JOSLYN Sr
SAR Patriot #:
P-226879
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 10 Dec 1710 Lancaster / Worcester / MA Death: 01 Aug 1788 Leominster / Worcester / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Committee to advise delegates to Provincial Congress, 11 Jan 1775
Representative to General Court of Massachusetts, 1777
Not to be confused with the man who served as a Captain of Minutemen, Colonel John Whitcomb's Regiment. This service belongs to Patriot P-226899
Additional References:
Leominster Town Clerk, Leominster, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1740-1779, Volume 1, Birth, Marriages, Intentions, Town Meeting, and Road Records, Utah. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of UT, 1971, pg 193
This Find-A-Grave memorial is a cenotaph, actual burial location is unknown
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Author: Robert Roy Thomas
John Joslin, or Josselyn, was baptized on 10 December 1710 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
He married Lucy Wilder on 4 July 1733 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. They had the following known children:
John Jr. [Patriot P-226899] was born on 17 September 1735 and married Susanna Carter.
Esther was born in 1738 and married William Richardson [DAR Ancestor A005484].
Joseph [Patriot P-226886] was born on 31 January 1743 and married Sarah Tarbell.
Abijah [Patriot P-226863] was born on 24 January 1745 and married Kezia Farrar.
James was baptized on 3 August 1746
Lucy was born on 14 October 1750 and married David Wilder [Patriot #: P-319945].
Joanna was born on 21 December 1753 and married Levi Warner [Patriot P-313705].
Sarah was born on 3 April 1756 and married James Butler [Patriot P-126523].
Thomas was born on 30 September 1758.
Relief was born on 3 April 1756 and married Elisha Carter.
Early in the American Revolution, on 11 January 1775, John served on a committee to advise delegates to the Provincial Congress. In 1777, he served as a Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts.
The Patriot died on 25 August 1789 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Sources:
NSSAR ACN 226879
The Birth, Death, and Marriage Register of Lancaster, Massachusetts, page 25
Leominster Town Clerk, Leominster, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1740-1779, Volume 1, Birth, Marriages, Intentions, Town Meeting, and Road Records, Utah. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of UT, 1971, page 193
Vital Records of Leominster, page 329
Author: John Agner
Deacon John Joslin, a 9th Great Grandfather, was born on 10 December 1710 into a well-established New England family. His immigrant great grandfather, grandfather and family came from England in 1635 during the “Great Immigration” probably due to religious reasons. He is considered a patriot by both the SAR and DAR for his service on a Leominster, Massachusetts town council committee giving instructions to their delegate to the Provincial Congress to be held in Cambridge, Mass on Feb 1, 1775. This was the provincial congress during which John Hancock and Joseph Warren begin defensive preparations for a state of war.
Perhaps just as important were his five sons (one of which was killed) and two sons-in-law who were patriots in the War. One son-in-law, Levi Warner an 8th Great Grandfather, was my first supplemental. Joslin held many town offices including selectman, assessor, highway surveyor and tythingman.
Joslin died in Leominster, Massachusetts on 1 August 1789.
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