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Definition of Andros
1. andro [n] - See also: andro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Andros
Literary usage of Andros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"In Connecticut, when andros presented himself and demanded the surrender of the
... The struggle against andros in Massachusetts, where the township of ..."
2. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"In March andros and his fellow officials who had been summoned from Boston arrived,
and at about the same time came Elisha Cooke and Thomas Oakes, ..."
3. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"By his good measures and his bad alike, andros had incurred unpopularity witn
the colonists. He was charged with favoring Grievances Dutch traders, ..."
4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"Howard of Effingham resigned or was removed, and Sir Edmund andros was sent out
succeeded to Virginia as governor. It may seem a Edmund strange appointment ..."
5. American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery by Abiel Holmes (1805)
"On the intelligence, that andros was about to invade the colony, and to demand
... andros arrived at -Say brook in July with an armed force, and demanded a ..."
6. History of the State of New York by John Romeyn Brodhead (1871)
"andros, who had just come from London, and was fully acquainted with the king's
policy about New England, did all he could to induce Treat and the other ..."
7. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"Wee therefore reposing espe- ciall trust and confidence in the prudence courage
and loyalty of you the said Sir Edmund andros, out of our especiall grace ..."
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