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SIR EDMUND ANDROS (1637-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 1 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDMUND See also:ANDROS (1637-1714)  , See also:English colonial See also:governor in See also:America, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:December 1637, son of See also:Amice See also:Andros, an adherent of See also:Charles I., and the royal See also:bailiff of the See also:island of See also:Guernsey . He served for a See also:short See also:time in the See also:army of See also:Prince See also:Henry of See also:Nassau, and in 1660-1662 was See also:gentleman in See also:ordinary to the See also:queen of Bohemia (See also:Elizabeth See also:Stuart, daughter of See also:James I. of See also:England) . He then served against the Dutch, and in 1672 was commissioned See also:major in what is said to have been the first English See also:regiment armed with the See also:bayonet . In 1674 he became, by the See also:appointment of the See also:duke of See also:York (later James II.), governor of New York and the Jerseys, though his See also:jurisdiction over the Jerseys was disputed, and until his recall in 1681 to meet an unfounded See also:charge of dishonesty and favouritism in the collection of the revenues, he proved himself to be a capable See also:administrator, whose imperious disposition, however, rendered him somewhat unpopular among the colonists . During a visit to England in 1678 he was knighted . In 1686 he became governor, with See also:Boston as his See also:capital, of the " Dominion of New England," into which See also:Massachusetts (including See also:Maine), See also:Plymouth, Rhode Island, See also:Connecticut and New See also:Hampshire were consolidated, and in 1688 his jurisdiction was extended over New York and the Jerseys . But his vexatious interference with colonial rights and customs aroused the keenest resentment, and on the 18th of See also:April 1689, soon after See also:news of the arrival of See also:William, prince of See also:Orange, in England reached Boston, the colonists deposed and arrested him . In New York his See also:deputy, See also:Francis See also:Nicholson, was soon afterwards deposed by See also:Jacob See also:Leisler (q.v.); and the inter-colonial See also:union was dissolved . Andros was sent to England for trial in 1690, but was immediately released without trial, and from 1692 until 1698 he was governor of See also:Virginia, but was recalled through the agency of See also:Commissary James See also:Blair (q.v.), with whom he quarrelled . In 1693-1694 he was also governor of See also:Maryland . From 1704 to 1706 he was governor of Guernsey . He died in London in See also:February 1714 and was buried at St See also:Anne's, Soho .

See The Andros Tracts (3 vols., Boston, 1869-1872) .

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