[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.
[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 ye Maine Land of New England beginning at a certaine place called or knowne by ye name of St. Croix next adjoyneing to new Scotland in America and from thence along ye sea Coast unto a certaine place called Pemaquin or Pemaquid and soe up the River thereof to ye furthest head of the same, as it tendeth northwards and extending from thence to the River Kinebequi and soe upwards by ye shortest course to ye river Canada northwards. And also all that Island or Islands comonly called or knowne by ye several names of Matowacks or Long Island scituate lying and being towards ye West of Cape Codd and ye Narrow Higansetts abutting upon ye maine land betweene ye two rivers there called or knowne by ye severall names of Conecticut and Hudsons River together also wth ye said river called Hudsons River and all ye land from ye West side of Conecticut River to ye East side of Delaware Bay, and also all those severall Islands called or knowne by ye 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.
[115] Conn. Col. Rec. (1665–78), pp. 260, 334, 335, 339–43, 578–86. N. Y. Col. Doc., iii. 254.
Governor Dongan’s jealousy of Andros makes his statement of Andros’s intentions ten years before questionable authority, especially when it is remembered that at the time he made the statement he was busily engaged in trying to persuade the people of Connecticut to ask to be annexed to New York, rather than to Massachusetts under Andros. Under these circumstances, one cannot help suspecting his testimony as to memoranda left behind by Andros, who was one of the most cautious and methodical of men. N. Y. Col. Doc., iii. 415. If Andros intended to surprise the post, he certainly was very ill-judged to send notice of his claim beforehand. For the best account of these proceedings, see Brodhead, Hist. of N. Y., ii. 284–286.
[116] Brodhead, Hist. of New York, ii. 303–306. New Jersey Archives, i. 156–347.
[117] Conn. Col. Records (1678–89), 283–285.