John Andrews, Jr. was born circa 1618 in Norfolk, England to John Andrews (1592-1662) and Sarah Connant (1596-1666) and died 20 April 1708 Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Jane Jordan (1622-1705) 1645 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Biography
Served in the Pequot War in Connecticut - cir 1637.
Husband of Jane Jordan. Father of John Andrews, Ensign William Andrews and Elizabeth Andrews.
Died in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Essex County, MA.
Exact location of burial is unknown.
1636 Pequot War
A 19th-century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War.
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.
Salem Witch Trials
1876 illustration of the courtroom; the central figure is usually identified as being Mary Walcott
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States.
Petition of Chebacco Oldtimers
During that horrible period of the Salem Witchcraft John Andrews again comes into creditable public notice. John Proctor (1631-1692), who was born in Chebacco, but moved to Salem; heand his wife, Elizabeth, had the awful misfortune to be charged of being witches. His servant girl was one of the first accused of witchcraft and John was one of the first to step forward and call it a terrible lie. But then he and his wife were arrested, cast into prison, tried, convicted and executed.
Most persistent efforts in their behalf for clemency were made. While in prison Proctor addressed Rev. Cotton Mather and others imploring their assistance that if possible, their innocent blood might be spared. Their neighbors joined in a petition to the court to save them. Rev. John Wise drew up a petition which was signed by the men of old Chebacco, whose names were: John Wise, William Cogswell, William Story, Sr., Jonathan Cogswell, Reginalds Foster, John Cogswell, Jun., Thomas Choate, John Cogswell, John Burnham, Sr. Thomas Andrews, William Thompson, Joseph Andrews, Thomas Low, Sr. Benjamin Marshall, Issac foster, John Andrews, Jr., John Burnham, Jr., William Buslin, William Goodhue, William Andrews, Isaac Perkins, John Andrews, Nathaniel Perkins, John Choate, Sr., Thomas Wilkins, Joseph Proctor, William Cogswell, Samuel Giddings, Thomas Varney, Joseph Eveleth, John Fellows, James White.
It appears that the names of John Andrews and his four sons are all signed to this petition, to their eternal honor and credit.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Andrews (1646-1717) | |||
| William Andrews (1649-1715) | 1649 Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 7 February 1715 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | Margaret Woodward (1655-1723) |
| Elizabeth Andrews (1652-1718) | |||
| Thomas Andrews (1654-1718) | |||
| Joseph Andrews (1657-1742) | |||
| Jane Andrews (1659-1724) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Andrews (1618-1708) | 1618 Norfolk, England | 20 April 1708 Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | Jane Jordan (1622-1705) |
| Sarah Andrews (1620-1687) | |||
Residences
See Also
- John Andrews
- Andrews Family
- Andrews in Norfolk
- Andrews in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Lt John Andrews, Sr. at Find A Grave
Footnotes (including sources)
- ^ John Winthrop, Journal of John Winthrop. ed. Dunn, Savage, Yeandle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 228.
- ^ Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres", in History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," Man in the Northwest 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103–114; Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172