Andros, Sir Edmund

(1637-1714), was born in London, and was early in life a soldier and bailiff of the Island of Guernsey. He began his American career as Governor of New York in 1674-81; to which in 1680 he added by seizure New Jersey. When his patron, the Duke of York, had become king as James I I., he appointed Andros in 1686 Governor of the northern colonies, including New England and New York. Andros was arbitrary in his headquarters in Boston and elsewhere in New England, though the story of the ‘‘ charter oak "’ of Connecticut is by some considered apocryphal. The overthrow of James II. led the people of Boston to depose Andros in April, 1689, and he was sent to England, but not tried. He was again Governor, 1692-98, this time of Virginia. 41