rights. Andros was released, and though generally regarded as a bad man and magistrate, he still contrived to retain a degree of influence at home. In 1692, a little more than two years after his disgrace at Boston, he was appointed by William III. governor of the province of Virginia, in which office he remained until he was superseded by Nicholson, in 1698. Andros arrived in Virginia in Feb. 1692. Beverly, Burk, and other historians of that colony, represent him to have been actuated in his administration by a sound judgment and liberal policy-to have been exact, diligent and methodical in the management of business, and of great public generosity. Beverly says he was "a great encourager of manufactures. He also gave particular marks of favor towards the propagation of cotton, afterwards so much neglected. He was a great lover of methodcaused all the loose and torn records in the public offices, which were of any value, to be transcribed into new books-took measures for their preservation, and for reducing them to such order that they could at once be referred to. The public offices were burnt in October, 1698, just before his term of office expired, but the papers were saved. By great diligence, he got them all properly arranged before he left the government. He made offers to rebuild the public edifice at his own expense in part, and would have done so, had he not been superseded."* Whether Andros, in his last government in America, found a people in spirit more congenial with his own, or, what is more probable, had learned wisdom from misfortune, it is certain that few governors of Virginia were more generally beloved. He returned to Beverly, sec. 142, p. 90. Burk, ii. 316. * England in 1699, was governor of the Island of Guernsey, from 1704 to 1706, and died in London in February, 1714, Douglas says, "at a very advanced age." He was 82, at the time of his death. His wife died at Boston, according to Sewall, in February, 1688.* History has done no more than justice to Andros, in stamping him with the character of a tyrant. Oldmixon, in 1741, said he "was a man of as mean a character as fortune," and that it was a matter of amazement that such a man should have been continued in office after the revolution. Smith, the historian of New York, says of Andros, that "he knew no law but the will of his master, and Kirke and Jeffries were not fitter instruments than he to execute the despotic projects of James II." The family of Andros is one of the most ancient upon the Island, and descendants were living in Guernsey and Alderney, as late as 1798. John Andros, the ancestor of Governor Andros, was, from 1582 to 1607, one of the twelve jurats or judges, who, with the bailiff, composed the Royal Court of the Island-an office which continued in some of the family name down to as late a period as 1705. Amice Andros, the father of Sir Edmund, was bailiff of the Island from 1660 to his death, on the 7th April, 1674, æt. 64. In the inscription upon a mural * There is something striking in the few words of Judge Sewall's description of what he witnessed at Lady Andros's funeral. "Between 4 and 5, Feb. 10th, I went to the funeral of the Lady Andros, having been invited by the clark of the South Company. Between 7 and 8, (lychns [torches] illuminating the cloudy air) the corpse was carried into the herse drawn by six horses, the soldiers making a guard from the governor's house down the Prison Lane to the South meeting-house; there taken out and carried in at the western door, and set in the alley before the pulpit, with six mourning women by it. House made light with candles and torches. There was a great noise and clamor to keep people out of the house, that they might not rush in too soon. I went home."-MS. Diary of Judge Sewall. monument in the church of St. Martin's, Guernsey, over the remains of Amice Andros, Esq. he is styled "Seigneur of Sausmares and Jerbourg, Hereditary Steward of the Island, Lieutenant of Ceremonies in the Courts of Charles I. and II., Judge of the Royal Court of Guernsey, and Major General of the Forces of the Isle," &c. After his death, the office of bailiff was filled by his son, Edmund Andros, until his departure for New York, in August, 1674. The Seigniory or Lordship of Sausmares, is of Norman origin and great antiquity in the Island. The fief became vested in the family of Andros, by intermarriages with that of Sausmares. The fief or manor of Anneville, granted by Henry VIII., to Nicholas Fachin, remained for some time in that family, and then descended to that of Andros, who possessed it in 1675. It consisted of some 27 farms and tenants. The late major general Brock, of the British army, who fell in the battle of Queenstown, U. C. 13th Oct. 1812, was a descendant of the Andros family. END OF VOLUME FIRST. INDEX. A. Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, 12. Acadie, settlements in, 9. Destroyed by Acorns, settlers live upon, 246. Adams, John, of Plymouth, 137. Alexander, Sir William, grant to, 235. soit, 162. Charged with hostile inten- Allerton, Isaac, 26, 45. Notice of, 54. ments, 406. His expedition to Hart- Anecdotes of Winthrop, 248. Of Crom- 424 Army raised against the Narragansetts, Arrows, sent as a challenge, 60. Assembly of Divines, 239, 323. Aspinet, sachem of Nauset, 56. B. Baldwin, Judge Henry, 232. Barnstable, or Cummaquid, 30. Under Battle of Narragansett Swamp, 187.- Baylies, Francis, memoirs of New Ply- Beaver, trade in, 111. Arrives in Boston, 335. Bernard, Lord, 334. Billingsgate Point, Wellfleet, 32. Billington, John, 26. Executed for mur- Bishop, Joseph, 365. Blackstone, William, first settler of Bos- Blagge, Edward, 130. Board of Trade and Plantations, records Boston, first visit to, 59. Settled, 236, Boston Harbor, or Bay of Massachusetts, Bradford, Hon. Alden, notice of, 90. Bradford, Col. Gamaliel, 90. Bradford, Mercy, 89. Re- Bradford, William, his birth and educa- Bradford, Hon. William, of R. I., notice |