Talk:Edmund Andros

message: The following is from Project Gutenberg's 1911 EB - http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/6/0/13600/13600-h/13600-h.htm - hence it is in the public domain, if anyone can be bothered to merge this in with the exosting page. --Tagishsimon — Preceding undated comment added 19:41, 25 October 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: From 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

message: What is the origin of this interesting Greek-sounding family?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.204.25.156 (talk) 06:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The name is a variant of Andrews, but potentially related to the Greek name Andreas.  DCItalk 23:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Family Name? 

message: The Andros I learned about in a university history course was actually a great hero for implementing the Covenant Chain treaty, which kept the peace in the Northeastern colonies for 80 years between Europeans and Native Americans. This article fails to even mention this remarkable accomplishment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.136.96 (talk) 4:44, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Then feel free to find some citations and add it in! Markvs88 (talk) 14:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extremely biased article 

message: I deleted the section which claimed that Andros revoked the ban by the Massachusetts Colony on Christmas on 1681. The paragraph is factually incorrect. It refers to a blog as reference, which neither cites a source nor appears to be particularly informed about Massachusetts Colonial history. In any event, Andros was not governor of Massachusetts in 1681. He was governor of New York, but was physically in England (as the previous paragraph says), having been recalled. In 1681 the Massachusetts charter had not yet been revoked by the English court and therefore neither Andros nor anyone else could "revoke" legislation in Massachusetts then. In fact Andros did not arrive in the colony until the very end of 1686, and until just before his arrival, the governor, magistrates and deputies under the original charter constituted the government and acted without interference from the Crown or its designee.AnthroMimus (talk) 04:23, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted section on Christmas 

message: According to The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition, Written by Boyer, Clark, Kett, Salisbury, Sitkoff and Woloch Andros was quoted as telling a group of colonists, outraged by his limiting their towns to a single meeting each year and overriding all their elected legislatures, "you have no more privileges left to you than not be sold for slaves."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.218.83 (talk) 01:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Opinions of him

message: Does the fact that he was a blatant racist and supported the enslavement of Africans, African-Americans, and theft of Native American lands not need mentioning in the article?  Seems that we ignore the truth in order to justify our own American/European comforts.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.56.35.151 (talk) 13:44, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have sources that say this? Magic♪piano 17:19, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Andros was a racist that supported enslavement and theft of land from natives

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The current wording suggests that Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were part of New Netherland.  They were held throughout the colonial period by the English.  In the "Governor of New York" section, I suggest they be dropped from the last sentence of the first paragraph.  The first sentence of the second paragraph can be clarified as "In 1664, Charles II granted James all of this territory, as well as Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, the Elizabeth Islands, and all of the land in present-day Maine between the Kennebec and St. Croix Rivers, but with the intervening Dutch retaking of New Netherland, Charles issued a new patent to James." Curmudgeonly Pedant (talk) 18:04, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket