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Andros served as British colonial governor of New York (1674-1681), New England (1686-89), Virginia (1692-97), Maryland (1693-94), and Guernsey (1704-06). Andros was not a popular governor, and at one point was placed under arrest and forced to return to England.
As the head of the short-lived Dominion of New England, Andros angered the Puritan colonists of Boston by openly affiliating with the Church of EnglandThe Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and is the mother branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. Christianity was planted in Britain in the first or second c. They were also angered by his noisy, "sinning" soldiers. Andros curbed town meetings, restricted popular assemblies, and heavily taxed people without their representatives' consent. He further angered colonists by limiting the colonists' liberties and by suppressing smuggling and enforcing the Navigation ActsThe English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which, beginning in 1651, restricted foreign shipping. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause of the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American Revolutionary War. The 1651 Act The first Navigation Act w, the colonists. After James IIJames II of England and VII of Scotland ( 14 October 1633 16 September 1701) became King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 6 February 1685. He would prove to be the last Catholic monarch to reign over England, Scotland or Ireland. His subjects distrus was deposed by the Glorious RevolutionThe Glorious Revolution ( 1688- 1689) is an event in which the Stuart king James II (James VII of Scotland) was removed from his thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, and replaced by William of the House of Orange and his wife and joint sovereign Mary, the Dominion disintegrated. A group of colonists mobbed its Boston headquarters and shipped Andros back to England.