American loyalists; Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714; Society of Friends -- New England; Witchcraft -- New England
[110] Tupper, _History of Guernsey_, 2d Ed., London, 1876. He
says (p. 392): “Edmund Andros had succeeded his father as bailiff
(_bailli_) in 1674, with power to nominate a lieutenant during his long
non-residence; he was also a colonel of dragoons, and after his return
from his successive North American governments, he was constituted
lieutenant-governor of Guernsey by Queen Anne, who dispensed with his
executing the office of bailiff and accepted Eleazar Le Marchant as
lieutenant-bailiff.” Apparently he had some trouble at first from the
governor of the island, Christopher, Lord Hatton, for we find (p. 377)
a royal order sustaining Andros, and forbidding Lord Hatton to disturb
him in the office of bailiff.
[111] _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 215. The boundaries stated in this
Commission are as follows: “All that part of y^e Maine Land of New
England beginning at a certaine place called or knowne by y^e name of
St. Croix next adjoyneing to new Scotland in America and from thence
along y^e sea Coast unto a certaine place called Pemaquin or Pemaquid
and soe up the River thereof to y^e furthest head of the same, as it
tendeth northwards and extending from thence to the River Kinebequi
and soe upwards by y^e shortest course to y^e river Canada northwards.
And also all that Island or Islands comonly called or knowne by y^e
several names of Matowacks or Long Island scituate lying and being
towards y^e West of Cape Codd and y^e Narrow Higansetts abutting upon
y^e maine land betweene y^e two rivers there called or knowne by y^e
severall names of Conecticut and Hudsons River together also w^{th}
y^e said river called Hudsons River and all y^e land from y^e West
side of Conecticut River to y^e East side of Delaware Bay, and also
all those severall Islands called or knowne by y^e name of Martine
mynyards and Nantukes otherwise Nantukett, together with all the lands
islands soiles rivers harbours mines mineralls quarryes woods marshes
waters lakes fishings hawking hunting and fowling and all royaltyes and
profitts comôdityes and hereditaments to the said several islands lands
and premisses, belonging and apperteyning with their and every of their
appurtenancies.”
[112] For Andros’s own account of the first three years of his
administration, see _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 254–257. For the surrender
of New York, _Documentary History of New York_, iii. 43; Andros’s
report on state of the province, i. 60.
[113] That this was recognized by men qualified to judge, _vide_ letter
from Lieutenant-Colonel Talcott to Andros, _Connecticut Colonial
Records_ (1678–89), p. 399; _vide_ also _Doc. Hist. N. Y._, i. 99;
_Conn. Col. Rec._ (1665–78), pp. 397, 404, 461, 492. For Andros’s own
official report of the assistance he rendered New England in Philips’s
war, see _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 264, 265. For remarks upon the
contrasted Indian policies, see Brodhead, _Hist. New York_, ii. 281–290.
[114] _Conn. Col. Rec._ (1678–89), p. 283. _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 236.
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