Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have beencorrected without note. The original book is a reprint of a portion ofa larger work; therefore, some internal page references refer topages beyond those in this book.
MEMOIR
OF
SIR EDMUND ANDROS.
A
MEMOIR
OF
SIR EDMUND ANDROS, Knt.,
GOVERNOR OF NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK AND
VIRGINIA, &c., &c.
WITH A PORTRAIT.
By WILLIAM HENRY WHITMORE, A.M.
Reprinted from the “Andros Tracts,” published by the
Prince Society of Boston, N.E.
Boston:
PRINTED BY T.R. MARVIN & SON.
1868.
SIR EDMUND ANDROS.
ONCERNING the ancestry of Sir Edmund Andros, the sole printedauthority is the memoir in the History of Guernsey by Jonathan Duncan,(London, 1841,) which occupies about three pages in that book. Thissketch has been copied by Dr. E.B. O'Callaghan in his "Documentsrelating to the Colonial History of the State of New York," (ii. 740),and also in a note in Woolley's Journal (Gowan's BibliothecaAmericana). It seems that Andros placed on record at Heralds' Collegea very elaborate pedigree of his family, September 18th, 1686, a fewdays before he sailed to assume the government of New England.Although this document was used probably by Duncan, it is now printedfor the first time in full, from a transcript made by Joseph L.Chester, Esq., of London.
The family of Andros, or Andrews as it is more frequently spelt, wasof great antiquity in Northamptonshire, being long settled at Winwickin that county. One branch, which was raised in 1641 to the dignity ofBaronet, was resident at Denton in the same county; and from thesimilarity of the arms, it is evident that Sir Edmund claimed the samepaternity. The pedigree recorded at Heralds' College is as follows.
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