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Edward Tilley (1588-1620/1) was one of the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Tilley was also a signer of the Mayflower Compact, which has been called the world's first written constitution.

• "Signing the Mayflower Compact," ca. 1900, is in the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum.
• The museum owns "The Landing of the Pilgrims," by Henry A. Bacon, 1877.

He came to New England with his wife, Ann, his brother John, and two cousins, Henry Samson and Humility Cooper, who were children.

The first winter was very difficult for the Pilgrims, due to hunger, cold and disease. Out of the 102 Mayflower passengers, 52 of them died before spring. When the Pilgrims feared an Indian attack, they would pull the sick members out of bed, prop them up against trees, and put a gun in their hands. Governor John Carver died, and virtually every family lost a loved one. Both Edward and Ann Tilley died in that first winter, as did John Tilley and his wife, Joan.

The children survived, though. Humility Cooper was sent back to England, where she grew to adulthood. Henry Samson and Elizabeth Tilley (daughter of John and Joan Tilley) grew to adulthood in Plymouth Colony, married and thrived.

References

1. Complete Mayflower Passenger List. (n.d.) Francis Cooke, Available: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/FrancisCooke.php,la.
2. "Pilgrim Family Sketch: Edward Tilley," New England Historic Genealogical Society (http://74.220.155.90/pilgrim-families-edward-tilley/), Retrieved 16 Feb. 2011.
3. Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, p. 413, Ancestry Publishing, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986.
4. Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, pp. 362, 406, 409, Ancestry Publishing, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986.
5. "Girls on the Mayflower," MayflowerHistory.com (http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/girls.php), Retrieved 15 Feb. 2011.
6. Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, pp. 57, 70, 89-90, Viking, New York, NY, 2006.
7. Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, ed. by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 68, The Modern Library, Random House, New York, NY, 1967.
8. Ward, R. L. "The Baronial Ancestry of Henry Sampson, Humility Cooper, and Ann (Cooper) Tilley," The Genealogist 6:166-186.
9. Pilgrim Hall Museum. (n.d.). Humility Cooper in 17th Century Records, Available: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/cooperh.htm.

External links

• Plimoth Plantation Web site
• Pilgrim Hall Museum (sub page) main sitePilgrim Hall Museum

• Mayflower passengers