General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File # G42S-DB  (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"The Ancestry of Overmire Tifft Richardson Bradford Reed" Larry Overmire larryover@@worldnet.att.net

"My best guess - A Work Perpetually In Progress" Matthew Gerrior xspertone@@yahoo.com (who has generously provided research at AWTP, of which excerpts are below):

"...born London, England, 1590 , married 1614 Rebecca Marlow and with his wife and five children and a maid-servant, Eliza Ward, embarked at London on the "Increase" 17 Apr. 1635 and arrived at Boston the latter part of May (and in) Hingham, Massachusetts, where he was one of the early proprietors.
Source: History of the Town of Surry, Cheshire County, Ne w Hampshire by Frank Burnside Kingsbury, published by the t own of Surry, New Hampshire 1925, page 723. 3."
"...(T)he ship Increase, of London, commanded by Captain Robert Lea. The passenger list contain(ed) the names of 'Thomas Jostlin, husbandman, age 43, Rebecca, his wife, age 43: Elizabeth Ward, a maid-se vant, age 38; and five of seven children -- Rebecca, 18, Dorothy, 11, Nathaniel, 3, Elizabeth, 6, and Mary, a year old.
Thomas became an original proprietor in the new settlement which in 1639 was given the name, Sudberry. Other settlers who went with him were Nathaniel Treadway and John Howe . That same year Daniel Hudson came over from England."
"Samuel Maverick probably the town clerk and 1660, wrote - - "They plant and breed cattle, and get something by trading with the Indians."
Thomas is listed in the colonial records as" husbandman and pioneer:" as a man of "business ability and generous disposition."
We find this notation in the records -- John Merrick ha d a grant of land in Hingham, and 1649, between widow Cutte r and Thomas Joslin's upland. And this notation -- on Marc h 11, 1653, Thomas Nichols purchased of Thomas Joslin, hi s dwelling house, barn, and three acres of his land which had belonged to Stephen Lincoln before Thomas Joslin bough t it.
Thomas and his son, Nathaniel, sold their other propert y that year to George Lane and Moses Collier who were in Hingham as early as 1635, and removed to the new town of Lancaster, Massachusetts on the western outpost of civilization , known in the ancient records by the Indians named "Naesha way." Thomas purchased 50 acres of upland and 20 acres of s wampland in those remote wilds."