John Andrews

This man was known as John Andrews, Sr. of Norwich AND John Andrews Jr. of of Ipswich. This has caused much confusion during the initial research of the Andrews family. (1) This family had several variant spellings of its name which has also caused much confusion. Lt. John Andrews spelled his name both "Androuse", "Andros" and "Andrews" . Descendants variously spelled their names "Andrews" "Andrus", "Andross" or "Andros". (2) This had led to even more confusion to keep them separate from another Andrews/Andros/Andrus family of Connecticut with a different ancestry. (3) Sources:

(1) New England Genealogical Register (attached)

(2) New England Genealogical Register (attached)

(3) New England Genealogical Register (attached) _________________________________________________

From The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusettsby Betty Andrews Storey

John 2 ANDREWS , Jr. (John1), born 1648 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 19 May 1717 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He married in 1680/81 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts married Judith BELCHER26, 27, born 19 Aug 1658 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, daughter of Jeremiah BELCHER , Immigrant and Mary LOCKWOOD.

Children of John ANDREWS , Jr. and Judith BELCHER were as follows:+ 7 i John 3 ANDRUS, born 1680 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 1750 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut. He married (1) Sarah COOK; (2) Ruth GATES. + 8 ii Jeremiah 3 ANDRUS, born 1682 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 7 May 1762 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He married Dorothy (---). + 9 iii Benjamin 3 ANDROS, born 13 Apr 1685 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died about 1769 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He married Ann MIX. 10 iv Richard 3 ANDREWS28, 29, born 1688 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 1768 in Scotland, Windham County, Connecticut. He married Abiah ROBINSON, born about 1692 in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts; died about 1775 in Scotland, Windham County, Connecticut, daughter of Peter ROBINSON and Experience MANTOR. Notes: Richard and Abiah had no children. Richard went from Chebacco Parish, Ipswich to Norwich, Connecticut about 1704 with his father's family. On 12 Jan 1713/14 his parents conveyed to him one hundred and ten acres of land. He and his wife were admitted to the church in Scotland, Connecticut, on a letter from the church in Preston. In 1719 Richard sold to his brother Jeremiah the land east of the Shetucket River, which had been given to him by his father, and moved with his wife to Scotland Parish, formerly a part of Windham. + 11 v David 3 ANDRUS, born 1690 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died about 1757 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He married Hannah HASKELL. + 12 vi Mary 3 ANDREWS, born 1692 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 9 Mar 1743/44 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. She married John ROATH. + 13 vii Judith3 ANDREWS, born 1694 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died 3 Nov 1763 in

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Notes for John Andrews , Jr. "The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton" by W. G. Davis pp. 132-135: Robert Cross, Jr. was born about 1642, that year being determined by his estimated age in many court depositions. He married Martha Treadwell on 19 Feb 1664/65. He died in 1713 and his widow died 3 March 1738/39 at the age of 95. In 1667, after a day spent in military training, Robert Cross and his cousin John Andrews, Jr. [son of Lieut. John Andrews], and a few other young men, probably under the influence of too much "sack" or aqua-vitae, comitted what the court with some justice termed a "barbarous and inhumane act". They opened the grave of the Indian Sagamore of Agawam, who had been a constant friend of the first settlers of Ipswich, scattered his bones and carried his skull on a pole. Cross was apparently the ring-leader, and he was sentenced to jail until the next lecture day when he was to sit in the stocks for an hour after meeting, then to be taken back to prison to remain until he paid a fine of 6:13:4. After his release he was bound to good behavior and obliged to bury Sagamore's bones and erect a cover of stones two feet high on the grave. The case naturally caused a great sensation, the mildest comment being that the fines and imprisonment punished the cuplrits' parents, who had to find the money and replace their labor, more that it did them. Drink was Robert Cross' curse. He owned that he drank excessively in 1670, he was "much in drink" in Gloucester in September 1671 again in Salem in 1673 and was fined for breach of the peace in 1677. The following from Mr. John B. Threlfall 5518 Baton Road Madison Wisconsin 53771 William Andrews (son of John) appears on the record for the first time in March 1667 when he, Stephen Cross and Joseph Giddings were brought into court and convicted of "great misdemeanors of pulling up bridges at the windmill". They were committed to prison until the next lecture day, and after the lecture to be brought forth by the marshall and constables, to sit one hour in the stocks, then to be carried back to prison until they paid a fine of three pounds each. They were also bound to good behavior. His brother John was also questioned in the matter and admitted having pulled up part of the bridge. John further admitted that the past spring he and Robert Cross, Jr., had dug up the grave of Sagamore of Agawam, and that Cross carried the skull upon a pole. Cross was sentenced to a term in prison, was fined and ordered to rebury the bones and construct a stone cover for the grave. John Andrews was ordered to help him in the work or pay a fine of twenty nobles. Thomas Bishop openly criticized these sentences and declared that it was a very hard sentence and it punished the innocent and let the guilty escape for the fines and imprisonment punished their parents. He also said that it would have been better to give them a little of the whip. For this criticism of the court he was fined and ordered to make a public acknowledgement. In the Ipswich papers by Messrs. Dow and Caldwell, appears this account of the affair: "MASCONNOMET" "The last of the Sagamores of the Agawams was buried with Indian honors on Sagamore Hill, now within the limits of Hamilton. About 1658 some young fellows dug up the scull and carried it about the streets. They were brought to justice and some fragments concerning the affair, without dates, from the Court tiles have been found. Testimony of John Andrews, Jr. The last spring he was at the Sagamore's grave with Robert Cross, Jr., when he was digging of it and that he the sayd Cross carried the scull upon a pole to a lott where John Giddings was at plow and Confess that at first he digged up some of the upper pt of the Grave, but did not after dig further; they digged it with hows [hoes.]" On 8 Oct 1703, Lieut. John Andrews gave to his "Eldest Sone John Andrews, House Carpenter of ye same town" his homestead with eight acres of land, confirming to him other pieces of land, subject to certain conditions. On 25 Oct 1704, John Andrews sold this homestead, given to him by his father, to John Wainwright of Ipswich, the deed being signed by John Andrews and "Judah" Andrews affixing her mark. On 10 Oct 1704 Thomas Knowlton, Jr. and his wife Hannah, all of Norwich sold for L280 to John Andrews, Jr. of Ipswich, Massachusetts, house carpenter, 550 acres of land on the east side of the Shetucket River. John and his family moved to this land in Connecticut. In 1712 he was given 8 1/2 acres of land "near his house being for money paid for building the meeting house." In 1714, three years before his death, he gave all of his property to his sons, 110 acres to each, reserving for himself, during his life 20 acres, together with one half of his house. The deeds were signed by John and Judith Andrews. John was a carpenter, and a tythingman in 1697. He lived on a farm at Averill's Hill. In a deed, he stated "Judith, now my wife", On 9 Feb 1704 John sold his Ipswich lands to John Wainwright for 400 pounds, and about 1704 moved to Norwich, Connecticut. A record of John Andrews in 1684 states that he was then 36 years old and was a tythingman in 1697. In the will of his father, Lieut. John Andrews in 1705 he is mentioned as the eldest son. He is mentioned in a deed made by his father 30 June 1677, to James Giddings and his wife Elizabeth (Andrews).

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18 H. Franklin Andrews, History of the Andrews Family (Iowa: N. E. Brinkerhoff, 1890), p. 70. This reference shows, in error, that Lieut. John Andrews was a son of John Andrews and a grandson of Capt. Robert Andrews, the innkeeper at Ipswich. A correction was published in the "Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder", Vol. 9, pp. 223-224, 1909. 19 Vol. III No. 7 "The Essex Antiquarian", Descendants of John Andrews of Ipswich (Salem, Massachusetts: July 1899), p. 97. 20 Abraham Hammatt, The Hammatt Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1633-1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1980), page 12. 21 Elliott Morrison Andrews, The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews (Typescript: Lee, Maine, 1961), person (2-1) in Mss, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Manuscript pages are not numbered. 22 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record , Vol 46:188, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, periodicals. Article disproves that Jeremiah Andrews and John Andrews were the sons of Francis Andrews of Fairfield, Connecticut. Proves that the Norwich, Connecticut Andrews-Andrus family were descended from Lieut. John Andrews. 23 Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987), p. 17. 24 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society: Boston, Massachusetts), 70:104-106, 1916. “John Andrews of Ipswich, Mass., and Norwich, Conn. and Some of His Descendants” by Harriet Andross Goodell. 25 Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1775-1847) (Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1947), pp. 132-135, Wisconsin State Historical Society Library, Madison, Wisconsin, CS71 T582 (1947). 26 Elliott Morrison Andrews, The Descendants of Lieut. John Andrews (Typescript: Lee, Maine, 1961), New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Manuscript pages are not numbered. 27 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society: Boston

Bought 550 acres on the east side of the Shetucket River in Norwich 10Oct1704 from Thomas and Susanna Knowlton Jr and Benjamin and Hannah Baldwin Jr, to which he moved his family from Ipswich. This area became known as Long Society, by reference to its 12 mile long size, or East Society of Norwich before becoming annexed to Preston in 1786.