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Having no children, by his will (1) he bequeathed to his 

 eldest nephew, John Andros (son of his brother John and 

 Anne Knapton), who had married his cousin, Elizabeth 

 Andros, the whole of his real and the residue of his personal 

 estate in Guernsey and America, with the proviso " that my 

 said nephew John, or his heirs, shall within two years of my 

 decease build a good suitable house on or at the Manor of 

 Saumares in Guernsey." 



In fulfilment of this desire the present house was built, 

 and remained in the Andros family until 1748, when Charles 

 Andros, son of this John, sold it and the Manorial rights to 

 John de Sausmarez, and thus it reverted into the hands 

 of its original possessors. John Andros's daughter, Elizabeth, 

 married Mr. John Guille, Seigneur of St. George, whose 

 letters on the subject of the Carolina property have already 

 been quoted. 



Sir Edmund bequeathed the Island of Alderney to his 

 nephew, George Andros, son of his brother George. As we 

 know, through failure of his male issue, it was inherited by 

 his sister, wife of John Le Mesurier, son of Thomas, the 

 former Lieut*- Governor. 



I think I can best conclude this lecture by an extract 

 from a Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, (2) by W. H. Whit- 

 more, Esq., of Boston, which is doubly interesting as written 

 by a representative of his former foes, and therefore is a 

 tribute Sir Edmund's fellow countrymen should particularly 

 appreciate. 



" In reviewing the long public career of Sir Edmund 

 Andros we are struck, not less by the amount of work which 

 he performed than by the censure which his services incurred. 

 He was the Governor at times of every Royal Province on 

 the Mainland, and exercised a larger influence than any other 

 ruler sent hither by Great Britain. 



" He was apparently the chosen follower of James, and yet 

 there is no reason to suspect him of any disloyalty to his 

 country at the anxious period when that Monarch was striving 

 to regain his throne. He was intrusted by William with the 

 Government of Virginia and was honoured by Queen Anne ; 

 thus holding office under four successive monarchs. 



" That his Government was distasteful to the citizens of 

 Massachusetts is undeniable, but no man sent there to perform 

 the same duty would have been acceptable. In reality the 

 grievance of the colonists lay in the destruction of their 



(1) Dated 19th July, 171?, proved 8th March, 1714. 



(2) The Andros Tracts, published by the Prince Society of Boston, U.S.A. 



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