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FIRST GENERATION.
1
In the absence of any record as to when Edmond Tilson and wife
Joane left England, or arrived in New England, we can only form
conclusions from the 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). His residence was at Plymouth, where he
died Oct. 25, 1660. His widow, Mrs. Joane Tilson, married Giles
Rickard, Sr., May 20, 1662. She died before 1669, from the fact
that Giles Rickard, Sr., married 3d, Hannah, widow of John Churchill,
in 1669. There is nothing to establish the birth of any of the
following children. By comparing various records, I have been able
to give some approximate dates, which may aid some. Without doubt
three of the children were born in England.
Mary Tilson, b. prob. betw. 1625-30; m. James Cole, Jr.
Elizabeth Tilson, b. prob. betw. 1630-34; m. Benj. Denham.
Ephraim Tilson, b. prob. betw. 1635-37; m. Elizabeth Hoskins.
Joan Tilson, b. prob. 1638.
John Tilson, b. prob. 1640; d.; will proved Oct. 29, 1673.
2
MARY TILSON2, (Edmond1) dau. of Edmond and Joane Tilson,
b.(???); m. Dec. 23, 1652, James Cole, Jr., of Plymouth, N. E.
(Cole's His. says: They were married at Scituate; moved to York,
Me.; returned to Plymouth; was surveyor of highways in 1656. In
1657 his taxes were remitted.) He was b. 1625; died, 1709.(*)
THEIR CHILDREN:
7 Mary Cole, b. Dec. 3, 1653; m. Capt. John Lothrop of Barnstable,
June 3, 1671-2. He was b. Feb. 9, 1644; d. 1727.
(*)Next to the Baptist Church on Leyden street, Plymouth, Mass., where
the house formerly owned by Ephraim T. Paty now stands, is the site of
the tavern of James Cole, Sr. He kept tavern from 1638 to 1660. It is
probable that James Cole, Jr., continued to keep the house, as Judge
Samuel Sewell in his diary, 1697, says: "I lodge at Cole's. Also March 8,
1698, while attending court at Plymouth."
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