Tomas Andros (1 May 1759

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– 30 December 1845

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) was an American

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. He joined the revolutionary army at the age of 16, and fought in the battles of

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and White Plains. In 1781 he enlisted on a

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in New London, but was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship in

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. A few months later he escaped, and on the restoration of his health studied

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with Benedict in

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. He was ordained at Berkley in 1788, and for 46 years remained in charge of the church at this place. He published

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s, and also a narrative of his imprisonment and escape from the Jersey prison-ship. An account of his life, prepared by his son, is given in Emery's "Ministry of Taunton." His son, R. S. S. Andros, was born in

, and died there in August 1868. He edited several newspapers, was deputy collector in

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for some years, and subsequently, as special agent of the treasury department, was engaged in reorganizing custom-houses in the South. He was the author of the "Customs Guide," a codification of the revenue laws, contributed poems to the " Democratic Review," and published "Chocorua and other Sketches" (1838).

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