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    Edmund Andros

    British governor of several North American colonies

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  1. Edmund Andros. 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. At other times, Andros served as governor of the provinces of New York, East and West ...

  2. Feb 20, 2024 · governor (1674-1681), New Jersey. (Show more) Sir Edmund Andros (born Dec. 6, 1637, London, Eng.—died Feb. 24, 1714, London) 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 ...

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  4. Dec 27, 2015 · SUMMARY. Sir Edmund Andros served as governor of Virginia from 1692 until 1698. Born in London, Andros enjoyed ties to the family of Charles II, served in the army, was appointed governor of New York by the future James II in 1674 and in 1686 of the Dominion of New England. His stay in New England was unpopular enough that he ended up ...

  5. 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. He was descended from the feudal aristocracy of Guernsey, and his ...

  6. Apr 18, 2014 · Then in 1686 he appointed Sir Edmund Andros governor of the Dominion of New England. Six Places Renamed Out of Spite - New England Historical Society April 7, 2018 - 7:51 am Sir Edmund Andros took over from Dudley with the added territory of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

  7. Andros, Sir Edmund. Sir Edmund Andros (ăn´drŏs), 1637–1714, British colonial governor in America, b. Guernsey. As governor of New York (1674–81) he was bitterly criticized for his high-handed methods, and he was embroiled in disputes over boundaries and duties (see New Jersey ), going so far as to arrest Philip Carteret. When James II ...

  8. This consolidated colony would be the Dominion of New England. Edmund Andros (1637-1714) was appointed governor of the Dominion of New England in 1686 and reappointed in 1688 as a reward for his fidelity to the crown after the English Civil Wars.

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