Edmund Andros - Legacy

Legacy

Andros remains a notorious figure in New England, especially in Connecticut. Connecticut officially excludes him from its list of colonial governors, but his portrait hangs in the Hall of Governors in the State Museum across from the State Capitol in Hartford. Although he was disliked in the colonies, he was recognized in England as an effective administrator, implementing the policies that he had been ordered to carry out and advancing the crown's agenda. Biographer Mary Lou Lustig notes that he was "an accomplished statesman, a brave soldier, a polished courtier, and a devoted servant", but that his style was often "autocratic, arbitrary, and dictatorial", that he lacked tact, and that he had difficulty reaching compromises.

Similarly, Andros was featured as an antagonist in the 1879 novel Captain Nelson, described as a "romance of colonial days".

Andros appears in several episodes of "The Witch of Blackbird Pond", where his conflict with the Connecticut colonists forms the background to the protagonist's more personal problems.

It is believed that Andros Island in the Bahamas was named for him. Early proprietors of the Bahamas included members of his first wife's family, the Cravens.