Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (died 1714)

Edmund Andros

English army officer and colonial administrator (1637–1714)

Sir Edmund Andros was an English army officer and colonial administrator. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other times, Andros served as governor of the provinces of New York, East and West Jersey, Virginia, and…

List of colonial governors of New York

The territory which would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony under the command of the Dutch West India Company in the Seventeenth Century. These colonists were largely of Dutch, Flemish, Walloon, and German…