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Edmond TILSON
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, Massachusetts, 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.
Edmond and Joane came to Plymouth, Massachusetts sometime between 1634 and 1638 when, by persecution of the Puritans, they received permission to leave England. They had five children, three born in England and two in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The first official record of Edmond Tilson in the new world was in 1638 when he applied to the court for land at Woebury Plain in Plymouth, for which five acres was granted to him on October 1, 1638.
He owned land at North River, on the northerly bound of "the two mile", which was a part of Scituate and at Lakenham, (now part of Carver Mass).