Colonial Governor. Served as Royal Governor of New York from 1674 to 1681, of New Plymouth, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Colonies from 1686 to 1689, and of Virginia from 1692 to 1698. He co-founded William and Mary College in 1692. he was a highly unpopular governor of the dominion of New England, leading to his seizure and arrest by the people of Boston in 1689. In 1692 became governor of Virginia before reurning to England (additional information by Robert Barnstable).
Sir Edmund Andros married, in Feb, 1671, Mary, oldest daughter of Thomas Craven of Appletreewick, Co. York., and thus sister to the "heir in reversion to the Barony of Hamsted". Andros came to England for the marriage. This match is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which he was held, as the lady was sister of the designated heir of the Earl of Craven, his former patron.
On the 22d of January, 1687-8, his wife died at Boston, and was buried by torchlight in the church-yard adjoining King's Chapel; the corpse having been carried from the Governor's residence to the South Church in a hearse drawn by six horses, attended by a suitable Guard of Honor.
Source:
-In Trumbull's Conn. Records, iii. 437, Letter from John West to John Allen at Hartford, Dated January 21st, (Saturday,)
-Judge Sewall's Diary, quoted in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 318.
Sir Edmund Andros married, in Feb, 1671, Mary, oldest daughter of Thomas Craven of Appletreewick, Co. York., and thus sister to the "heir in reversion to the Barony of Hamsted". Andros came to England for the marriage. This match is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which he was held, as the lady was sister of the designated heir of the Earl of Craven, his former patron.
On the 22d of January, 1687-8, his wife died at Boston, and was buried by torchlight in the church-yard adjoining King's Chapel; the corpse having been carried from the Governor's residence to the South Church in a hearse drawn by six horses, attended by a suitable Guard of Honor.
Source:
-In Trumbull's Conn. Records, iii. 437, Letter from John West to John Allen at Hartford, Dated January 21st, (Saturday,)
-Judge Sewall's Diary, quoted in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 318.
Colonial Governor. Served as Royal Governor of New York from 1674 to 1681, of New Plymouth, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Colonies from 1686 to 1689, and of Virginia from 1692 to 1698. He co-founded William and Mary College in 1692. he was a highly unpopular governor of the dominion of New England, leading to his seizure and arrest by the people of Boston in 1689. In 1692 became governor of Virginia before reurning to England (additional information by Robert Barnstable).
Sir Edmund Andros married, in Feb, 1671, Mary, oldest daughter of Thomas Craven of Appletreewick, Co. York., and thus sister to the "heir in reversion to the Barony of Hamsted". Andros came to England for the marriage. This match is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which he was held, as the lady was sister of the designated heir of the Earl of Craven, his former patron.
On the 22d of January, 1687-8, his wife died at Boston, and was buried by torchlight in the church-yard adjoining King's Chapel; the corpse having been carried from the Governor's residence to the South Church in a hearse drawn by six horses, attended by a suitable Guard of Honor.
Source:
-In Trumbull's Conn. Records, iii. 437, Letter from John West to John Allen at Hartford, Dated January 21st, (Saturday,)
-Judge Sewall's Diary, quoted in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 318.
Sir Edmund Andros married, in Feb, 1671, Mary, oldest daughter of Thomas Craven of Appletreewick, Co. York., and thus sister to the "heir in reversion to the Barony of Hamsted". Andros came to England for the marriage. This match is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which he was held, as the lady was sister of the designated heir of the Earl of Craven, his former patron.
On the 22d of January, 1687-8, his wife died at Boston, and was buried by torchlight in the church-yard adjoining King's Chapel; the corpse having been carried from the Governor's residence to the South Church in a hearse drawn by six horses, attended by a suitable Guard of Honor.
Source:
-In Trumbull's Conn. Records, iii. 437, Letter from John West to John Allen at Hartford, Dated January 21st, (Saturday,)
-Judge Sewall's Diary, quoted in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 318.
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