Person:John Andrews (5)

From Barnes - The Westward Migration of One Line of the Descendants of The Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut

... who joined the Farmington church 1654 & 1655.

From Genealogy and Ecclesiastical History of Farmington, Connecticut (referring to this John or his son)

... On the 9th May 1658 John Andrews, joined the Church in the covenant...

... We pass over these lists and dates, and come down in the record to 1st March, 1679-80, when we find a full roll of church members in "full communion'(*) in the church in Farmington. This roll or list seems to be numbered and graded according to rank, standing, or dignity, in the community, beginning with 1, down to 42 heads of families. It is thought our fathers in these nice distinctions took for a basis, "age, list, titles, and whatever else makes a man honorable." Let not the reader be surprised at this practice in the olden time. It was only a necessary preparation for the assignment of seats in the meeting house. If you say such comparisons would not be tolerated in this age, it might be replied, we have no such necessity, for our seats are rented to the highest bidder.

14 John Andrews sen & his wife

(*) Implying that others were under the "half way Covenant" as it was called.

Will of John Andrews

Will taken from Genealogical history of John and Mary Andrews. By Alfred Andrews. ^S9

" I John Andrews being grown aged, and many weaknesses attending of me from time to time, and now at this present it pleaseth the most high to visit me with more than ordinary weakness, yet through the good hand of God upon me, I have at this present the perfect use of my understanding, now I do think it meet to set that little at a stay, as I am able that God hath given me ; all my lawful debts being discharged, I dispose of my estate as followeth:

Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife Mary Andrews, the new end of my dwelling house, and the seller under, for her use and comfort as long as it shall please God to continue her natural life ; I do also give her the use of half my orchard, the fruit of it as long as she liveth ; moreover I do give and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife, my feather bed, with all the furniture belonging to it, and when it shall please God to end her natural life my mind is that she shall have liberty to dispose of it to whom she please.
Item. I do give unto my son Benjamin Andrews, my whole house and barn and home lot, after my loving wife's decease. My mind is that my son Benjamin shall possess after my decease half my house and my home lot and barn wholly for his to possess, as also the household stuff, reserving that liberty that my wife shall use that she shall need.
Item. I give to my son Benjamin my meadow lot, excepting two acres at the lower end of it, as also two cows to my son Benjamin, and one to my loving wife, yet moreover I give to my son Benjamin Andrews, my splayed mare, and my crown mare, and my two youngest working bullocks, and my cart, and plow, and plow-irons, barrow, plow-chains, horse chains, half a timber chain, and all my tackling that belongs to my teame, and my will is that my son Benjamin shall have these things above mentioned upon that condition, that he maintayne his dear mother comfortably, so long as her natural life continueth, and if it so fall out that my loving wife doth want a comfortable subsistence my will is that she shall have power to sell so much of my meadow land as she shall need lo obtain a comfortable livelyhood.
Item. I give to my son John Andrews one of my old bullocks, my long fowling piece, arid my lot adjoining of land that abutteth upon Hartford bounds.
Item I give to my son Abraham Andrews my old mare and her sucking colt, and my 20 acre lot in the great swamp adjoining his own lot.
Item I give my son Daniel Andrews two acres of my meadow land at the lower end, beginning at the dividing line between John Stanley, jun. and myself, running from the river westward, to the ditch eastward, and my mind is that he shall maintain the common fence that belongs to two acres, and I give him my upland lot that belongs to my twenty acre swamp lot, and my two year old horse coalte, and also I give to my son Daniel Andrews two swine that are one year old.
Item I give to my son Joseph Andrews my other old bullock, also I give to him my upland lot containing 40 acres, that lyeth near the Middleton path.
Item I give to my son Benjamin all the divisions of upland that belong to me, that are not yet laid out, moreover, I leave the rest of my swine, and my corn I leave to discharge my debts in my son Benjamin's hands, as also he shall pay some small legacies.
Item I give to my grand-child, Thomas Barnes, twenty shillings.
Item I give to my grand-child, John Andrews, one pound.
Item I give to my grand-child, Abraham Andrews, one pound.
Item I give to my grand-child, Daniel Andrews, one pound.
Item I give to my grand-child, Ezekiel Buck, one pound.
Respecting my grandchild, Joseph Andrews, my son John Andrews son, if he sees meet to let him continue with my wife and my son Benjamin till he is one and twenty years, he shall have fifteen pounds, and two suits of apparel. If he sees cause to take him away before he is of that age, do give him nothing, and he shall pay nothing for the time I have kept him.
Item. I give to my daughter, Mary Barnes, my black heifer, that is two years old.
Item. I give to my daughter, Hannah Richards, two yearlings.
Item. I give to my daughter, Rachel Buck, my two year old red heifer. My will is that my son Benjamin Andrews shall be my whole and sole executor, and I desire my loving friends, Capt. John Stanley, and Isack Moore, to be the overseeing of my will with my son Daniel Andrews.
Upon second consideration of my will, considering the contents thereof, and my just debts being considered, I find them more than I expected, make this my whole and sole testament, and determined will, that all the cattle excepting such as are mentioned, and given by will to my loving wife and Benjamin, shall be set at liberty for the discharging my just debts with the swine and the corn as before exprest, all just debts being charged, my will is that the legacies shall have what remains of my cattle, except those given to my loving wife and my son Benjamin, by that proportion as is specified in my will to them. Furthermore I give to my executor that liberty to pay the legacies to my grand-children within six or seven years.

Robert Porter, Wm. Lewis, sen, Wit. this 14th Jan. 1681.

Signed and sealed, John Andrews.

1. ↑ John Andrews, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:54.

   ANDREWS, ANDROWS (or ANDROS, sometimes), often ANDROS, JOHN, Farmington, one of the first sett[lers]. freem[an]. 1658, by w[ife]. Mary had Mary, b[orn]. 15 Apr. 1643; John, 12 Aug. 1645; Hannah, 26 Feb. 1647, all bapt[ized]. 16 May 1658; Abraham, 31 Oct. 1648; Daniel, 1650; Joseph, 26 May 1651; there three bapt[ized]. 2 Apr. 1654; Rachel, bapt[ized]. 9 Apr. 1654; but why all were not bapt[ized]. at once, may be left to plausible conject[ure]. Stephen, b[orn]. 1606; and Benjamin, June 1659; and d[ied]. 1682. His wid[ow] died] Mary 1694. Of the ch[ildren]. my knowl[edge]. is less complete; John, eldest s[on]. was prob[ably]. of Hartford, and had John, Joseph, Stephen, and others, yet m[arriage]. or b[irth]. dates are blank; Mary m[arried]. as sec[ond]. w[ife]. Thomas Barnes; Hannah m[arried]. Richards, prob[ably]. Obadiah; and Rachel m[arried]. a Buck.

2. ↑ Clair Elmer Barnes. BARNES - The Westward Migration of One Line of the Descendants of The Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut. (published 1966 by the author, 4525 Keever Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807).
3. ↑ Compiled By Trescott C. Barnes, Secretary and Genealogist. BARNES: The Barnes Family Year Book, Vol. I - 1907 & II - 1908. (Vol. I -The Grafton Press, New York; Vol. II - Winsted Printing and Engraving Co, Winsted, Conn. 1908)
   p. 9.
4. ↑ Alfred Andrews. Genealogy and Ecclesiastical History of Farmington, Connecticut. (Chicago, Illinois 1867)
   p. 14.
5. ↑ National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars.
6. ↑ National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 John Andrews, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Andrews Families of Western Connecticut: II. John Andrews of Farmington. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1959)
   35:83.

   John Andrews, born in England about 1616, died at Farmington, Conn. shortly before 2 Mar. 1681/2;

8. ↑ John Andrews, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Andrews Families of Western Connecticut: II. John Andrews of Farmington. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1959)
   35:84.

   John Andrews himself became a church member 9 May 1658...

9.   Andrews, Alfred. Genealogical history of John and Mary Andrews, who settled in Farmington, Conn., 1640, embracing their descendants to 1872: with an introduction of miscellaneous names of Andrews, with their progenitors as far as known, to which is added a list of some of the authors, clergymen, physicians and soldiers of the name. (Chicago, Ill. : A.H. Andrews & Co., 1872)
   52.