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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.
Sir Edmund Andros: Governor in Chief of the Dominion of New England: June 3, 1686: December 20, 1686: April 18, 1689 Attorney General. The Attorney General was an ...
The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.A well-organized "mob" of provincial militia and citizens formed in the town of Boston, the capital of the dominion, and arrested dominion officials.
Sir Edmund Andros governed the Dominion for most of its brief existence, but he alienated New Englanders by forcing the Church of England into Puritan Boston and vacating land titles issued under the old charter. [38] After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 deposed James, Massachusetts political operatives arrested Andros and shipped him back to ...
Governor Sir Edmund Andros (1692–1698) Governor George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1698–1737, absentee) Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson (1698–1705) Lieutenant Governor Col. Edward Nott (1705–1706) Acting Governor Edmund Jenings (1706–1710) Lieutenant Governor General Robert Hunter (1707, captured at sea and never served)
Upon conclusion of the peace in 1674, the Duke of York appointed Sir Edmund Andros as Governor of his territories in America. [2] Governor Edmund Andros in 1674 said "permit all persons of what religion soever, quietly to inhabit within the precincts of your jurisdiction" [ 9 ] Nonetheless, he made the Quakers of West Jersey pay toll on the ...
Edmund Andros (1637–1714) 1674: 1681: In 1674, Andros was appointed to oversee the Duke of York's possessions in the Province of New York. Andros assumed that included his possessions in New Jersey as well. Carteret and proprietors in New Jersey resisted Andros's claim. He returned to England in 1678 for instructions. [68] [69]
When news was received that Governor Sir Edmund Andros had been imprisoned in Boston by the opposition, the Leislerians took possession on May 31, 1689, of Fort James at the southern end of Manhattan Island. They renamed it Fort William and announced their determination to hold it until the arrival of a governor who was commissioned by the new ...