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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 was an English administrator in North America who made an abortive attempt to stem growing colonial independence by imposing a kind of supercolony, the Dominion of New England. Andros grew up as a page in the royal household, and his fidelity to the crown during its exile after.
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Dec 27, 2015 · Andros’s most powerful enemy of all was the Virginia climate. In March 1694 he complained of being “Incomoded By the Excessive Heats” and was granted permission to leave the colony for two months every year. In March 1698 Andros asked permission to resign his office because of his poor health.
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.
Feb 9, 2024 · The Dominion of New England was a colonial administrative union created by King James II in 1686. It aimed to centralize control over the New England colonies by merging them under a single royal governor, Sir Edmund Andros. The Dominion faced resistance due to its imposition of strict royal authority and reduction of colonial autonomy.
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IN the first week of March, 1689, Sir Edmund Andros returned to Boston from an expedition against the Indians of Maine. He had now governed New England more than two years for King James II.,...
views 3,750,632 updated. Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714), an English colonial governor in America, was an able though arbitrary administrator. Because his regime conflicted with the interests of colonial Puritan leaders, he became a symbol of oppression. Edmund Andros was born in London on Dec. 6, 1637.
