NameEdmond Tilson 1171
Birthabt 1605, England1171
Death25 Oct 1660, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA1172
Notes for Edmond Tilson
Also called Edward
No record has been found of his arrival in Plymouth. The first record is his application for land in Plymouth on 3 September 1638.
1174The first records at Plymouth, Mass., when he applied to the court, Sept. 3, 1638, for land at Woeberry Plaine, and same year on Oct. 1, the court granted him five acres. (The new county buildings are on Woeberry Plaine.) He was many times on the Jury, evidently a capable person and interested in the affairs of the Colony. He owned land at North River on the northerly bound of "the two mile," which was a part of Scituate, and at Lakenham, (now a part of Carver).
1171Made a freeman 1 Mar 1641.
1175
Notes for Joanna (Spouse 1)
She was the administrator of his estate, because as the court observed, "shee hath bine a true labourer with him in procuring of his estate".