Colonial administrator in British America (1637–1714)
Sir
Edmund Andros
Portrait by Frederick Stone Batcheller
4th Colonial Governor of New York
In office 9 February 1674 – 18 April 1683
Monarch
Charles II
Preceded by
Anthony Colve
Succeeded by
Thomas Dongan
Bailiff of Guernsey
In office 1674–1713
Preceded by
Amias Andros
Succeeded by
Jean de Sausmarez
Governor of the Dominion of New England (Governor-in-chief of New England)
In office 20 December 1686 – 18 April 1689
Preceded by
Joseph Dudley
Succeeded by
None (dominion dissolved) (partly Simon Bradstreet as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Colonial Governor of Virginia
In office September 1692 – May 1698
Preceded by
Lord Effingham
Succeeded by
Francis Nicholson
3rd and 5th Royal Governor of Maryland
In office September 1693 – May 1694
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Succeeded by
Nicholas Greenberry
In office 1694–1694
Preceded by
Nicholas Greenberry
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Personal details
Born
(1637-12-06)6 December 1637 London, England
Died
24 February 1714(1714-02-24) (aged 76) London, England
Resting place
St Anne's Church, Soho, London
Signature
Sir Edmund Andros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714;[1] also spelled Edmond)[2][3] was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other times, Andros served as governor of the provinces of New York, East and West Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland.
Before serving in North America, he served as Bailiff of Guernsey. His tenure in New England was authoritarian and turbulent, as his views were decidedly pro-Anglican, a negative quality in a region home to many Puritans. His actions in New England resulted in his overthrow during the 1689 Boston revolt. He became governor of Virginia three years later.
Andros was considered a more effective governor in New York and Virginia. However, he became the enemy of prominent figures in both colonies, many of whom worked to remove him from office. Despite these enmities, he managed to negotiate several treaties of the Covenant Chain with the Iroquois, establishing a long-lived peace involving the colonies and other tribes that interacted with that confederacy. His actions and governance generally followed his instructions upon appointment to office, and he received approbation from the monarchs and governments that appointed him.
Andros was recalled to England from Virginia in 1698 and resumed the title of Bailiff of Guernsey. Although he no longer resided entirely on Guernsey, he was appointed lieutenant governor of the island and served in this position for four years. Andros died in 1714.
^"Sir Edmund Andros". Encyclopedia Britannica. 20 July 1998. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^"Edmond Andros judgment concerning John Underhill estate: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids". findingaids.library.nyu.edu.
^Wright, Louis B. (1945). "William Byrd's Defense of Sir Edmund Andros". The William and Mary Quarterly. 2 (1): 47–62. doi:10.2307/1920687 – via JSTOR.
Sir EdmundAndros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714; also spelled Edmond) was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor...
of their rights and having their colonial charters revoked. Governor EdmundAndros tried to make legal and structural changes, but most of these were undone...
revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689 against the rule of Sir EdmundAndros, the governor of the Dominion of New England. A well-organized "mob"...
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Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir EdmundAndros, the governor imposed on New England by King James II. Mather's subsequent...
excommunication. 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir EdmundAndros. 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is...
appointed governor Sir EdmundAndros was arrested and sent back to England in the wake of the 1688 Glorious Revolution. After Andros' arrest, each of the...
and the generation of Cotton Mather, 1689–1728 from the overthrow of EdmundAndros (in which Cotton Mather played a part) and the new charter, mediated...
to 1708. First elected Governor in 1683, Treat was supplanted by Sir EdmundAndros in 1687, making Connecticut part of the Dominion of New England. Treat...
promptly named New Jersey, now part of the United States of America. Sir EdmundAndros, bailiff of Guernsey, was an early colonial governor in North America...
of creating the Dominion of New England. The Dominion was headed by EdmundAndros, who not only disliked puritanism and was haughty, but ruled as a near-absolute...
command of King William, along with Andros and other dominion leaders. Colonial authorities brought charges against Andros and Dudley, but none of their agents...
included the formerly separate colonies of New York and New Jersey. EdmundAndros was appointed royal governor, and tasked with governing the new Dominion...
North Carolina rebel against Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper. EdmundAndros, Governor of New York, negotiates the Covenant Chain with the Iroquois...
to Sir EdmundAndros, and Nicholson, now a captain, accompanied Andros as commander of a company of infantry to Boston in October 1686. Andros sent Nicholson...
1674, the Duke of York appointed Sir EdmundAndros as Governor of his territories in America. Governor EdmundAndros in 1674 said "permit all persons of...
petitioned Andros, the governor of the dominion, for manorial rights.: p.211 The colony proved too large for a single governor to administer, and Andros was...
control of Governor EdmundAndros. In 1688, the colonies of New York, West Jersey, and East Jersey were added to the dominion. Andros was overthrown and...
after which King James II installed Sir EdmundAndros as the governor of the Dominion of New England. Andros was ousted in 1689 after the "Glorious Revolution"...
which eventually led to the replacement of governor Colve by governor EdmundAndros on 10 November 1674 (N.S.) Before the Second Anglo-Dutch War had even...
flown during the Dominion of New England using the personal standard of EdmundAndros Customarily, the flag of Connecticut is flown at half staff when the...
Fort James name. EdmundAndros was appointed governor and served from February 9, 1674, to April 18, 1683. On November 10, 1674, Andros received the surrender...
control. Gov. Andros returned to New York in 1674 with a new patent, again claiming all lands up to the Connecticut River. Gov. Andros showed a markedly...
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