. A history of the United States. und Andros governorof all the colonies north and eastof the Delaware River; that is,New Jersey, New York, and allNew England. Andros was givenpower to make laws, raise taxes,and settle disputes in his owncourt. In this James was treat-ing the liberties of Englishmen inthe colonies with the same con-tempt with which he treated theirrights in England. The revolu-tion of 1688 soon sent the king into exile. In 1689, when the people of Massachusetts learned whatwas taking place in England, they seized Andros, threw himinto Castle Wilham in Boston harbor, and then s
. A history of the United States. und Andros governorof all the colonies north and eastof the Delaware River; that is,New Jersey, New York, and allNew England. Andros was givenpower to make laws, raise taxes,and settle disputes in his owncourt. In this James was treat-ing the liberties of Englishmen inthe colonies with the same con-tempt with which he treated theirrights in England. The revolu-tion of 1688 soon sent the king into exile. In 1689, when the people of Massachusetts learned whatwas taking place in England, they seized Andros, threw himinto Castle Wilham in Boston harbor, and then sent himback to England. Two years later Massachusetts receiveda new charter, but one which did not permit the people tochoose their governor. Plymouth was at this time unitedwith Massachusetts. Ten years later a party in parhament attempted to passa bill taking away the charters of Rhode Island and Connecti-cut, the only colonies which could still elect their governors,and depriving the proprietors of other colonies of their con-. SiR Edmund Andros After the portrait in the StateLibrary at Hartford 144 HOW THE COLONIES WERE GOVERNED
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