ANDROS, Sir EDMUND, 1637-1714; son of an officer in the English royal household, a major in prince Rupert's dragoons. In 1674, he was sent to America as governor of the colony of New York, and to him Sir Anthony Colve, the governor during the tem porary Dutch supremacy, surrendered without forcible opposition. A. was in more or less trouble with the English colonies over which lie claimed authority, and deposed Carteret of East Jersey in 1680. The next year he was called home under accusation, but mairiged to escape serious prosecution. When the New England colonies were con solidated in 1686, A. was made governor-general with large powers. He was to admit religious toleration, but could suppress all printing, name and change his council at will, and, with their conseut, levy taxes and control the militia. Connecticut refusing to obey his orders, he appeared in the council chamber at Hartford, in Oct., 1687, with
an armed guard, and demanded the surrender of the colony's charter. Evidence is wanting for the story of the hiding of the (duster in the oak tree; a duplicate may have been so bidden, but A. seems to have secured the original document. In 1688 New York and New Jersey were attached to New England and his rule extended over them. On hearing of the revolution in England the people of Boston imprisoned A. and some of his officers, April 18. 1689, and Leisler set up a rebel government in New York. In July, A. and a committee of accusers were ordered to England, but be was acquitted without formal trial. In 1692, he came hack as governor of Virginia, where he was popular, retiring in 1698. and becoming governor of Guernsey in 1704-6. In 1691, he published an account of his proceedings in New England.