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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