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Andros, Edmund, 1637 - 1714. Edmund Andros was the son of royalists Amias Andros and Elizabeth Stone of London, England. During the English Civil War, the Andros family lived at Guernsey and at the Hague. Andros entered military service under his uncle, Sir Robert Stone, and fought in Denmark from 1655 to 1658.
Sir Edmund Andros (ăn´drŏs), 1637–1714, British colonial governor in America, b. Guernsey. As governor of New York (1674–81) he was bitterly criticized for his high-handed methods, and he was embroiled in disputes over boundaries and duties (see New Jersey ), going so far as to arrest Philip Carteret. When James II, partly influenced by ...
The earlier Commission to Sir Edmund Andros, dated June 3, 1686, appointing him Captain General and Governor of the Territory and Dominion of New England, which included the Colonies of Mass. Bay and New Plymouth and the Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine, the Narragansett Country, otherwise called The Kings Province was very similar in its provisions to this document. It is printed in ...
Edmund Andros (ur. 6 grudnia 1637, zm. 1714) – gubernator Brytyjskiej Ameryki Północnej i baliw wyspy Guernsey w latach 1674–1713. Tytuł szlachecki uzyskał w 1678 roku. Bibliografia. Andros, Sir Edmund w: Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2, 1911. ...
SIR EDMUND ANDROS’S FIRST COMMISSION as GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY AND DOMINION OF NEW ENGLAND 3 June, 1686. James the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c To our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir Edmund Andros Knight Greeting
Edmund Andros was born in London on the 6th of December 1637, the son of Amice Andros, an adherent of Charles I, and the royal bailiff of the island of Guernsey. Career After service in the army, Edmund Andros was appointed by James, Duke of York, to be governor of the colony of New York in 1674. In 1688 he was given a new commission extending ...
Boston Revolt of 1689. Reports of William of Orange’s successful invasion and overthrow of James II (December 1688) reached Boston by March 1689. The town responded with an uprising on April 18. Citizens of Massachusetts, long upset with the Dominion of New England and the administration of Edmund Andros in particular, took the opportunity to ...
