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https://books.google.com.sa/books?id=YQ7OkPPa5CIC&lpg=PA313&ots=weLFNQoQ8y&dq=Edward%20Moseley%20New%20Hanover%20County%2C%20North%20Carolina%2C%20Will&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=Edward%20Moseley%20New%20Hanover%20County,%20North%20Carolina,%20Will&f=false
=== Research Notes by John Basset Collins
Unfortunately {the following link from} Baylus was wrong, being confused because of there being two different ships named Joseph and, in any case, Edward Moseley did not take up the apprenticeship intended for him with "Jacob Foreland Commander of the Ship Joseph". I have examined the original register of pupils at Christ's Hospital. {therefore the following annotation is suspect}
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_66/7492000/7492169/1/print/7492169.pdf
Moseley came to Charleston in 1697 from London on the Brig Joseph (330 tons), captained by John Brooks. His apprenticeship to Brooks did not last long for the vessel was reported “lost” the same year that his apprenticeship began.
Moseley may have been stranded in Charleston, but he made the best of a bad situation.
In a few years’ time, he served South Carolina as an Ordinary Court clerk (1701-1702) under Governor James Moore and a librarian for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1703. Undoubtedly, during his early apprenticeship with the controversial governor of Carolina, he met Moore’s teenaged son, Maurice. This "Charles Town" Edward Moseley must not be confused with any members of the Moseley families of Princess Anne County, Virginia, who were also fond of the given name, Edward. Some of that family later found their way into North Carolina as well. This factor contributed greatly to the confusion as well. At the age of twenty-one, Moseley received £5 15s for cataloging the first library in Carolina. This work he performed for Dr. Thomas Bray and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in May 1703, a few months after Bray sent the books to Charles Town It was perhaps through Dr. Bray that Moseley met Henderson Walker and his wife, Ann, whom Moseley married only a year later, upon Walker’s death.
http://www.franciscorbin.com/Edward_Moseley.htm
After the death of Ann LILLINGTON Moseley in 1732, this Edward MOSELEY re-married, in c. 1734, to Ann SAMPSON, and they had multiple children
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1682 - 1749 (67 years)