Andros, Thomas
soldier, clergyman, was born May 1, 1759, in Norwich, Conn.
He joined the revolutionary army at the age of sixteen, and was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. In 1781 he enlisted on a privateer in New London, but was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship in New York. A few months later he escaped, and on the restoration of his health studied theology with Dr. Benedict in Plainfield, Conn. He was ordained at Berkeley in 1788, and for forty-six years remained in the ministry.
He died Dec. 30, 1845, in Berkeley, Mass.