Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros, Concerning the surrender of Rhode Island and Connecticut Charters.
JAMES R.
[p] Additional powers and instructions for our trusty and well beloved Sir Edmund Andros, Knight, our Captain [p] General and Governor in Chief in and over our Territory and Dominion of New England in America, given at our Court at Windsor, this 13th day of September, in the second year of our reign,
Whereas we have been presented with the humble address of our Governor and Company of our Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation within our Territory and Dominion of New England, bearing date the 3d day of June last, wherein they take notice of our writ of quo warranto against their Charter, and thereupon declaring their resolution not to stand suit with us, have submitted themselves and their Charter to our Royal determination. Our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby authorize and empower you, upon your arrival in those parts, to demand, in our name, the surrender of their said Charter into your hands, in pursuance of their said declaration and address, and, taking our said Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, under your Gover
Illustration of Hartford Colony's first Meeting House
Captain Joseph Wadsworth
Downtown in Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut &#; The American Northeast (New England)
Photographed by Michael Herrick, February 1,
1. Captain Joseph Wadsworth Marker
Captain Joseph Wadsworth. . , Where you are standing, on October 31, came Sir Edmund Andros to the meeting house built on this site, sent by the British Crown to revoke Connecticut's Charter and establish the Dominion of New England. Captain Joseph Wadsworth, determined to protect Connecticut's liberties, stealthily removes the Charter from the room. He tucks the precious document inside his cloak and hurries through the night looking for a safe hiding place. Tradition says Wadsworth took the Charter to a great tree a quarter mile from here and placed it within its sturdy trunk. Thus was born the Legend of the Charter Oak. , , Joseph Wadsworth sculpture by Randy Nelson, , Made possible through a grant from The Hartford Courant Foundation. . This historical marker was erected in by The Hartford Courant Foundation. It is in Downtown in Hartford in Hartford County Connecticut
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Edmund Andros in Colonial New England
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Sir Edmund Andros (–) served as governor of New England after being appointed by King James II. When he took up his post in , Andros sought to reduce colonial autonomy by combining the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single Dominion of New England. His overbearing methods led colonists to despise him deeply.
Andros' governance was certainly an imposition on the autonomy colonists once enjoyed. The governor tried to force Episcopalian worship on the Old South Meetinghouse in Boston, thus infuriating prominent Puritan ministers like Increase Mather and his son, Cotton Mather. Andros also vigorously enforced the Navigation Acts, creating many enemies in port towns like Boston.&#;
He further exacerbated his reputation by suppressing charters, town meetings, and colonial assemblies. When the colonies got word of the Glorious Revolution that unseated James II in England, they too rebelled. In Boston, they seized Andros and other officials, sending them to England as prisoners in Andros was quickly released, however,
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