monody on Andre,in which she predicted, | Charleston Courier, a political paper of that Washington would die miserably for high reputation. executing the spy.—Ann. Register for ANDROS, Edmund, governor of New1781, 39-46; Marshall, iv. 277-286; England, had some command in NewGordon, 111. 481-490; Stedman, 11. York in 1672, and in 1674 was appointed 249-253; Holmes, 11. 316; Penns. Gaz, governor of that province. He continfor Oct. 25, 1780; Ramsay, 11. 196— ued in this office till 1682, exhibiting in 201; Polit. Mag. 11. 171; Amer. Re- this government but little of that tyranmemb. 1781. p. 1, 101; Smith's narra-nical disposition, which he afterwards distive; Thacher's mil. journ.

ANDREWS, Robert, professor of mathematics, in William and Mary college, Virginia, died in Jan. 1804 at Williamsburg. In 1779 he was a commissioner with Dr. Madison to settle the boundary line with Pennsylvania, Bryan, Ewing, and Rittenhouse being the commissioners of Pa. The talents of Mr. Andrews were actively employed and regulated by reason and religion. His wife and children were taught by him those divine principles, which bear the afflicted above the evils of life.

played. He arrived at Boston Dec. 20, 1686, with a commission from king James for the government of New England. He made high professions of regard to the public good, directed the judges to administer justice according to the custom of the place,ordered the established rules with respect to rates & taxes to be observed, and declared, that all the colony laws, not inconsistent with his commission, should remain in full force. By these professions he calmed the apprehensions, which had agitated the minds of many; but it was not long before the monster stood forth in his proper shape.

ANDREWS, John, D. D., provost of the university of Penns., was born in Ce- His administration was most opprescil county, Maryland, April 4, 1746, and sive and tyrannical. The press was reseducated at Philadelphia. After receiv-trained, exorbitant taxes were levied, and ing episcopal ordination in London Feb. the congregational ministers were threat1767, he was three years a missionary at ened to be deprived of their support for Lewiston, Maryland, and then a mission- nonconformity. Sir Edmund, knowing ary at York town, and a rector at that his royal master was making great Queen Ann's county, Maryland. Not progress towards despotism in England, partaking of the patriotic spirit of the was very willing to keep equal pace in times he was induced to quit Maryland his less important government. It was for many years. In 1785 he was placed pretended, that all titles to land were deat the head of the episcopal academy in stroyed; and the farmers were obliged to Philadelphia, and in 1789 appointed pro- take new patents, for which they paid fessor of moral philosophy in the college. large fees. He prohibited marriage, exIn 1810 he succeeded Dr. M'Dowell as cept the parties entered into bonds with provost. He died March 29, 1813, aged sureties to be forfeited in case there should 67. As a scholar he was very distin- afterwards appear to have been any lawguished. He published a sermon on the ful impediment. There was at this time parable of the unjust steward, 1789; and but one episcopal clergyman in the counelements of logic.—Jennison's ms. try; but Andros wrote to the bishop of ANDREWS, Loring, a distinguished London, intimating for the encourageeditor, died at Charleston Oct. 19, 1805. ment of those, who might be persuaded He was the brother of the Rev. John to come to this country, that in future no Andrews of Newburyport. He first pub-marriage should be deemed lawful, unless lished, in Boston, the Herald of Free- celebrated by ministers of the church of 'dom; then at Stockbridge the Western England. With four or five of his council Star; and in 1803 he established the he laid what taxes he thought proper. The

fees of office were raised to a most ex- confined. The old magistrates were reorbitant height. In Oct. 1687 he went stored, and the next month the joyful with troops to Hartford, and demanded news of the revolution in England reachthe surrender of the charter of Connec-ed this country, and quieted all apprehenticut, which was placed in the evening sion of the consequences of what had upon the table of the assembly, but in- been done. After having been kept at stantly the lights were extinguished, and the castle till February following Andros the charter disappeared, having been car-was sent to England for trial. The genried off by capt. Wadsworth and secre-eral court about the same time despatched ted in a hollow oak, near the house of a committee of several gentlemen to subSamuel Wyllys. stantiate the charges against him.

In the spring of 1688 Andros proceeded in the Rose frigate to Penobscot and plundered the house and fort of Castine and thus by his base rapacity excited an Indian war. In November he marched against the eastern Indians at the head of 7 or 800 men; but not an Indian was seen. They had retired to the woods for hunting. He built two forts, one at Sheepscot, the other at Pegypscot falls or Brunswick, and left garrisons in them. If the old name of Amarascoggin, on which river he built Pegypscot fort, received at this time, in honor of him, the name of Androscoggin; he was not worthy of such remembrance. The ancient name is to be preferred.

At length the capricious and arbitrary proceedings of Andros roused the determined spirit of the people.

The government was reduced to a most perplexing dilemma. If they condemned Andros' administration, the sentence might be drawn into a precedent, and they might seem to encourage insurrection and rebellion in future periods, when circumstances did not render so desperate an expedient necessary. On the other hand, if they should approve of the administration of Andros and censure the proceedings of the colonists, it would imply a reprobation of the very measure, which had been pursued in bringing about the revolution in England. It was therefore deemed prudent to dismiss the business without coming to a final decision. The people were accordingly left to the full enjoyment of their freedom; and Andros, in public estimation guilty, escaped with

out censure.

Having sought in the wilds of America In 1692 he was appointed the governor the secure enjoyment of that civil and of Virginia, in which office his conduct was religious liberty, of which they had been for the most part prudent and unimpeachunjustly deprived in England, they were ed. He was succeeded by Nicholson in not disposed to see their dearest rights 1698. He died in London Feb. 24, 1714, wrested from them without a struggle to at a very advanced age. His narrative retain them. Animated with the love of of his proceedings in New England was liberty, they were also resolute and cour-published in 1691, & republished in 1773. ageous in its defence. They had for sev--Hutchinson; Douglass, 11. 247, 272, eral years suffered the impositions of a ty- 369; Holmes 1. 421, 425; Belknap, 1. rannical administration, & the dissatisfac- 244; Eliot; Beverly. tion and indignation, which had been ANDRUS, Joseph R., agent of the gathering during this period, were blown Colonization society, was graduated at into a flame by the report of an intended Middlebury college in 1812, and after massacre by the governor's guards. On studying theology at New Haven and the morning of April 18, 1689 the inhabi- Andover, and also under bishop Griswold tants of Boston took up arms, the people at Bristol, R. I., received episcopal orpoured in from the country, and the gov- dination. ernor with such of the council, as had been ⚫ most active,and other obnoxious persons, about fifty in number, were seized and

It had been for years his purpose to devote himself to promote the welfare of the degraded and oppressed race of Africans. Being appointed the

agent of the Colonization society, he sailed early in 1821, and proceeded, with his associate, Ephraim Bacon, in April from Sierra Leone to the Bassa country to negotiate with king Ben for a place of settlement. It was well for the proposed colony, that the attempt was unsuccessful, for a more healthful and eligible territory was afterwards purchased by Dr. Ayres at Montserado. Mr. Andrus died at Sierra Leone, and was buried July 29, 1821. He was the friend of Carlos Wilcox and by him honored in his lines, "the group of stars."-Panoplist 18; 25, 400; Remains of Wilcox, 90.

father was John Appleton, one of the king's council, and for twenty years judge of probate in the county of Essex, and his mother was the eldest daughter of president Rogers. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1712. After completing his education an opportunity presented of entering into commercial business on very advantageous terms with an uncle in Boston, who was an opulent merchant; but he resolved to forego every worldly advantage, that he might promote the interest of the Redeemer's kingdom. Soon after he began to preach, he was invited to succeed Mr. Brattle in the ministry at Cambridge, and was ordained October 9, 1717. On this occasion Dr. Increase Mather preached the sermon and gave the charge, and Dr. Cotton Mather gave the right hand of fellowship. He was the same year elected a fellow of Harvard college, which office he sustained above 60 years, faithfully consulting and essentially promoting the interests of the institution. In 1771 the university conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinANTES, John, a Moravian missiona- ity, an honor, which had been conferred ry, was born March 4, 1740, and sent upon but one person, Increase Mather, from America to Herrnhut in Germany about eighty years before. Degrees have in 1764. In 1769 he proceeded to Cairo since become more frequent and less honon a proposed mission to Abyssinia; but orable. The usefulness of Dr. Appleton meeting Mr. Bruce, he was induced to was diminished for a few of his last years abandon the undertaking. He returned through the infirmities of age, but did not to Germany in 1781; and in 1808 visited entirely cease except with his life. He England, and died at Bristol Dec. 17, received Mr. Hilliard as his colleague in 1811. He published a reply to lord Va- 1783. After a ministry of more than sixty lencia, vindicating Bruce's veracity; ob- six years, he died Feb. 9, 1784, in the 91st servations on the manners of the Egyp-year of his age. This country can furtians; and wrote a memoir of his own nish few instances of more useful talents, life.-Lord's Lempr.

ANGE, Francis, a planter of Pennsylvania, died in 1767, aged 134 years. He remembered the death of Charles 1. ; at the age of 130 was in good health; and at the time of his death his memory was strong, his faculties perfect. He had lived on simple food. His residence was between Broad creek and the head of Wicomoco river.-Mem. hist. soc. Phil. 1. 320; Penn. mag. 1. 315.

ANTHONY, Susanna, an eminently pious woman of Rhode Island, was born in 1726 and died at Newport June 23, 1791, aged 64 years. Her parents were quakers. Dr. Hopkins published the memoirs of her life, consisting chiefly of extracts from her writings, of which there was a second edition in 1810. She devoted herself chiefly to prayer.

APPLETON, Nathaniel, D. D., minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born at Ipswich, December 9, 1693. His

and more exemplary piety, exhibited for so long a time and with such great success. During his ministry 2138 persons were baptized, and 784 admitted members of the church.

Dr. Appleton was as venerable for his piety as for his years. His whole character was patriarchal. In his dress, in his manners, in his conversation, in his ministry, he resembled the puritan ministers, who first settled New England. He lived from the close of one century to near the close of another, and he brought down

with him the habits of former times. His | his fidelity and piety, that they regarded natural temper was cheerful, but his ha- his counsels as oracular. bitual deportment was grave. Early con- In controversial and difficult cases he secrated to God, and having a fixed pre- was often applied to for advice at ecclesidilection for the ministry, by the union astical councils. Impartial yet pacific, of good sense with deep seriousness, of firm yet conciliatory, he was peculiarly enlightened zeal with consummate pru- qualified for a counsellor, and in that chadence he was happily fitted for the pasto-racter he materially contributed to the ral office.

unity, the peace, and order of the churches. With the wisdom of the serpent he happily united the innocence of the dove. In his religious principles he was a Calvinist, as were all his predecessors in the

el, Oakes, Gookin, and Brattle. But towards those of different principles he was candid and catholic.

He preached with great plainness and with primitive simplicity. In order to accommodate his discourses to the meanest capacity he frequently borrowed similitudes from familiar, sometimes from ministry, Hooker, Stone, Shepard, Mitchvulgar objects; but his application of them was so pertinent and his utterance so solemn, as to suppress levity and silence criticism. Deeply sensible of the His own example enforced the duties, fallen state of man, he admired the wis-which he enjoined upon others. He dom, holiness and mercy, which are dis- was humble, meek, and benevolent. He played in the plan of redemption through a glorious Savior. From the abundance of his heart, filled with the love of God, he spake with such fervor, as was fitted to inspire his hearers with pious sentiments and affections.

was ready at all times to relieve the distressed, and through life he devoted a tenth part of his whole income to pious and charitable uses. He was ever a firm friend to the civil and religious liberties of mankind, and was happy in living to see the establishment of peace and independence in his native land. He deserves honorable remembrance for his exertions to send the gospel to the Indians. Un

sive and patient. When his infirmities had in a great measure terminated his usefulness, he expressed his desire to depart and be with Christ. He at length calmly resigned his spirit into the hands

merchant in Boston, who died in 1798, wrote, with James Swan and others, against the slave trade and slavery from 1766 to 1770.

He possessed the learning of his time. The scriptures he read in the originals. His exposition, preached in course on the sabbath, comprehended the whole new testament, the prophecy of Isaiah, and der his many heavy trials he was submissome of the other prophets. It was chiefly designed to promote practical piety; but on the prophetical parts he discovered a continued attention, extent of reading, and a depth of research, which come to the share of but very few. In of its Redeemer. His son, Nathaniel, a his preaching he carefully availed himself of special occurrences, and his discourses on such occasions were peculiarly solemn and impressive. With the fidelity and plainness of a christian minister he His publications are the following; the administered reproofs and admonitions, wisdom of God in the redemption of man, and maintained with parental tender- 1728; a sermon at the artillery election, ness and pastoral authority the discipline 1733; on evangelical and saving repentof the church. By his desire a com-ance, 1741; discourses on Rom. viii. 14, mittee was appointed, and continued for 1743; funeral sermons occasioned by the many years, for inspecting the manners death of president Leverett, 1724; of of professing christians. So great was Francis Foxcroft, 1728; of president the ascendency, which he gained over his people by his discretion and moderation, by his condescension and benevolence, by

Wadsworth, 1787; of Rev. John Hancock, 1752; of Spencer Phips, 1757; of Henry Flynt, 1760; of Dr. Wiggles

APPLETON, Jesse, D. D., the second president of Bowdoin College, was born at New Ipswich, in the state of New Hampshire, Nov. 17, 1772. He descended from John Appleton of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England, who died in 1436. Samuel, a descendant of John, came to this country in 1635 and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Francis, his father, a man of piety and vigorous intellect, died in 1816, aged 83.

worth, 1765; of president Holyoke, 1769; ces he was very much endeared to his sermons at the ordination of Josiah Cot- people. At his suggestion the Piscataqua ton, 1728; of John Sergeant, 1785; of Evangelical magazine was published, to John Sparhawk, 1736; of Matthew which he contributed valuable essays, Bridge, 1746; of O. Peabody jun. 1750; with the signature of Leighton. Such of Stephen Badger, 1753; a sermon at was his public estimation, that in 1803 he the general election, 1742; at the con- was one of the two principal candidates vention, 1743'; two discourses on a fast, for the professorship of theology at Har1748; on the difference between a legal vard college; but Dr. Ware was elected. and evangelical righteousness, 1749; In 1807 he was chosen president of BowDudleian lecture, 1758; at the Boston doin College, into which office he was lecture, 1763; against profane swearing, inducted Dec. 23. After the toils of ten 1765; a thanksgiving sermon for the con-years in this station, his health became quest of Canada, 1760; for the repeal of much impaired in consequence of a severe the stamp act, 1766; two discourses cold in October 1817. In May 1819 his on a fast, 1770.-Holmes' hist. Cam- illness became more alarming, his combridge; col. hist. soc. vii. 37, 9-63; plaints being a cough, hoarseness, and dex. 158; Amer. herald, Feb. 23, 1784; bility. A journey proved of no essential Independ. chron. March 4, 1784. benefit. A profuse hemorrhage in October extinguished all hope of recovery. As the day of his dissolution approached, he remarked, 'Of this I am sure, that salvation is all of grace.-I would make no mention of any thing, which I have ever thought, or said, or done; but only of this, that God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish but have everlasting life. The atonement is the only ground of hope.' In President Appleton was graduated at health he was sometimes anxious in a Dartmouth College in 1792. It was du- high degree in regard to the college; but ring his residence at that seminary, that in his sickness he said in cheerful confihe experienced deep, religious impres-dence, "God has taken care of the Colsions; yet of any precise period, when lege, and God will take care of it." his heart was regenerated by the Spirit of Among his last, expressions were heard God, he was not accustomed to speak. the words, "Glory to God in the highThe only safe evidence of piety, he belie- est: the whole earth shall be filled with ved, was 'the perception in himself of his glory." He died Nov, 12, 1819, at those qualities, which the gospel requires.' the age of 47, having been president nearHaving spent two years iu the instruction ly 12 years. A discourse was published, of youth at Dover and Amherst, he stu- which was delivered at his funeral by died theology under Dr. Lathrop of Benjamin Tappan of Augusta, describing West Springfield. In Feb. 1797, he was the excellences of his character and his peordained as the pastor of a church at culiar qualifications for the station, which Hampton, N. H. His religious senti- he occupied. ments at this period were Arminian. Much of his time during his ten years' residence in that town was devoted to systematic, earnest study, in consequence of which his sentiments assumed a new form. By his faithful, affectionate servi

He published a dedication sermon at Hampton, 1797; sermons at the ordinations of Rev. Asa Rand, of Gorham, 1809; Rev. Jonathan Cogswell of Saco, and Rev. Reuben Nason of Freeport, 1810; of Rev: Benjamin Tappan of Augusta,