Andrews, William (4)
Andrews, William (1)
a missionary of the Church of England, came to preach to the Mohawk Indians in New York as a successor to the Rev. Thoroughgood Moore. At a meeting of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs held in Albany, he was greeted by the sachems with great respect; but his mission proving unsuccessful, he abandoned it in 1719. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 5, 91.
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Andrews, William (2)
a missionary of the Church of England and a native of Ireland, after having. been for some time in America, went to England in 1770; was ordained by the bishop of London, and appointed to Schenectady, N. Y., by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1771 he opened a grammar-school, but ill-health led him in 1773 to migrate to Virginia, and he resided for some time in Williamsburg. The mission of Johnstown having become vacant, he applied for it. See Sprague Annals of the Amer. Pulpit. 5. 91.
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Andrews, William (3)
a Congregational minister, was born at Ellington, Conn., Sept. 28, 1782. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1806; studied theology with Dr. Burton, and was ordained pastor at Windham, Conn., in 1808. In 1813 he was installed at Danbury, and in the year following at South Cornwall, where he remained until his death, Jan. 1, 1838. He was a man of grave deportment, good learning, and sincere piety. Of his six sons, five have been preachers, one being president and another professor at Marietta College, O. See Conn. Quarterly, 1861, p. 264; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2. 237.
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Andrews, William (4)
a Canadian Methodist minister, was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in October, 1817. He united with the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1832; emigrated to Canada in 1842; was received into the ministry in 1843; labored faithfully for thirty-six years, and died April 14, 1879. He was a good man and true. His son, Wilbur W. Andrews, is a missionary in the Winnipeg District. See Minutes of the Toronto Conference of the Meth. Church of Canada, 1879, p. 18. .