frontispiece Reprinted from the “Andros Tracts,” published by the Prince Society of Boston, N.E. Boston: PRINTED BY T.R. MARVIN & SON. 1868. Reprinted from the “Andros Tracts,” published by the Prince Society of Boston, N.E. Boston: PRINTED BY T.R. MARVIN & SON. 1868. T.R. MARVIN & SON, PRINTERS, BOSTON....

C ONCERNING the ancestry of Sir Edmund Andros, the sole printed authority is the memoir in the History of Guernsey by Jonathan Duncan, (London, 1841,) which occupies about three pages in that book. This sketch has been copied by Dr. E.B. O'Callaghan in his "Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York," (ii. 740), and also in a note in Woolley's Journal ( Gowan's Bibliotheca Americana). It seems that Andros placed on record at Heralds' College a very elaborate pedigree of

[Extracted from the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.] I S r . EDMUND ANDROS of Guernsey and now residing in the parish of St Anne in the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex Knight being in health of body and of good and perfect memory praised be God do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creato

S INCE the foregoing pages were in type, we have been favored with some additional information concerning the Governor, through the kindness of A.C. Andros, Esq., one of the present representatives of the family. He refers, first, to the printed account of Sir Edmund Andros, to be found in the following book:—"Sarnia, or Brief Memorials of many of her sons," by Ferdinand Brock Tupper, Esq. of Guernsey, published in that island in 1862. In it the fact is mentioned that the manor or fief of Sausma

P. v. The Memoir in Duncan's History was written by the late Mr. Thomas Andros of Guernsey, who died in 1853. P. vii. Colette, first wife of Charles Andros, was daughter of Josias Le Marchant. George Andros who m. Anne Blondel, died 10 Nov. 1685; so say the family records. P. ix. The pardon was dated 18th August. The baronet was Sir Henry De Vic. P. xi. Edmund Andros returned from Barbados to England in August, 1668, as appears by a letter of the 13th of that month from Mr. Thomas Samborne to Mr