It is gratifying to notice that at last his character and services are beginning to be better appreciated in the provinces over which he ruled; and we may hope that in time the Andros of partisan history will give place, even in the popular narratives of colonial affairs, to the Andros that really existed, stern and proud and uncompromising, it is true, but honest, upright, and just; a loyal servant of the crown, and a friend to the best interests of the people whom he governed. NOTES. [102] The principal authority for the facts of Andros’s life before he became governor of the Duke of York’s province is a biographical sketch in the _History of Guernsey_, by Jonathan Duncan, Esq., London, 1841, written by the late Mr. Thomas Andros of Guernsey, who died in 1853. This sketch was copied in _N. Y. Colonial Documents_, ii. 740, and has been used by W. H. Whitmore in his memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, in the first volume of _The Andros Tracts_. Mr. Whitmore has added to the sketch some few additional facts collected from a pedigree at the Heralds’ Office and from private family papers. His memoir is the most convenient, as it is the fullest and most accurate, life of Andros that has appeared. The _History of Guernsey_, by Ferdinand Brock Tupper, contains a few additional facts in regard to him, but of trifling importance. _Vide_ pp. 367, 377, 392. See also _Chronicles of Castle Cornet_ by the same author. [103] Duncan, _History of Guernsey_, p. 89. [104] _Memoir of the Life of the late Reverend Increase Mather, D. D._, London, 1725, pp. 10–12. [105] Whitmore, _Andros Tracts_, I. ix. Duncan, p. 106. [106] Pedigree, in _Andros Tracts_, I. vi. Duncan, p. 588. From _Calendar of State Papers, Am. and W. Indies_, we learn that Andros saw service in the West Indies, being major in a regiment of foot, commanded by Sir Tobias Bridge, which left England in March, 1667, and arrived in Barbadoes in April. He returned to England in 1668, as bearer of despatches and letters to the government, and was in England in September of that year. Whether he returned to Barbadoes is not evident, but he was in England in Jan., 1671, and throughout the year. The regiment was disbanded and four companies sent to England, arriving there Oct. 5, 1671, and were incorporated in the new dragoon regiment being raised for Prince Rupert, to which Andros received his commission Sept. 14, 1671. This chronology is irreconcilable with that given in the pedigree or by Duncan. [107] For relations of Lord Craven and Elizabeth, see Miss Benger’s _Memoir of the Queen of Bohemia_. [108] Duncan, p. 588. _Calendar of State Papers, America and the West Indies_ (1661–1668), 1427, 1436, 1439, 1476, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1824, 1839, (1669–1674), 394, 545. [109] Duncan, pp. 588–89. _America and W. Indies_ (1669–1674), 554, 559, 625, 639, 791. Mackinnon, _Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards_, i. 185.