Admitted Freeman-14 March 1639
Immigrated on ship 'Mary and John' which sailed from Plymouth, England, 20 March 163080, July 14 1, Vol. V, pg. 371 11, No. 74, pg. 120, 1920
Died 8 Oct 1661 or 29 Aug 1661

The original bearer of this cognomen took it without doubt from the locality in which he dwelt. The assumption of the name indicates that he was one who dwelt permanently at that place, and was a person of settled habits. When the religious troubles of the seventeenth century arose, a descendant of the first Moseley found his environment made intolerable by fanatical oppression and removed from England to the freedom of the New England forest, and settling there was the first of five generations who lived contentedly, like their descendants, in the same town. The name and the record of the family both show that the Moseleys were (and still are) of that class of citizens who are well thought of by their neighbors, love home and can succeed wherever they choose to make their abiding place.

John Moseley, whose name in the ancient records is spelled with many variations, as Mawdesley, Modesley, Madesley, but has long been fixed as Moseley, came probably in the ship “Mary and John,” which sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, was admitted freeman, March 14, 1639, and died there August 29, 1661. He married (first) Elizabeth (surname unknown), and by her had a son Joseph or John, born 1638, but whether any more children or not is unknown. His second wife, Cicely _____, died November 3, 1661. She named in her will three children: John, Elizabeth and Thomas.159