Joseph ANDREWS, YOEMAN

                      The Essex Antiquarian: Vol 3, p98:
        Dorothy daughter of Joseph Andrews and Sarah Ring Andrews was born Nov 23, 1697;
    married Ebenezer Burnham of Gloucester (pub. Nov 29, 1718); and was living in 1725.

    Reprinted from the New England Genealogical and Historical Register, Vol. LXX:
        (excerpts concerning the history of the grandparents of Dorothy Andrews)
        John Andrews, called Lieut. John Andrews or John Andrews, Sr., to distinguish him from others of the same surname who lived at the same time at Ipswich, Mass., was born in England, it is supposed, about 1621, and died at Chebacco Parish, in Ipswich 20 Apr 1708.  He married Jane Jordan, daughter of Stephen of Ipswich, later of Newbury, Massachusetts.
        It is not known when Lieut. John Andrews came to New England; but his name appears first in the records of Ipswich in 1637, when it is stated that he was a soldier in the Pequot War.  Lieut. John Andrews was a house carpenter and farmer, and lived in that part of Ipswich which in 1679 was organized as Chebacco Parish and in 1819 was incorporated as the town of Essex, Mass.  His name is frequently found in the land and court records of Ipswich, where he seems to have accumulated considerable property and to have been a man of some distinction.  He was honorably connected with that outbreak of independence which led the inhabitants of Ipswich in 1687 to resist the order of Sir Edmund Andros and his council for levying a tax on the King's subjects, viz., "a penny in the pound on all Estates personal or real, twenty pence per head as Poll Money,"etc.  For their resistance he with others, namely Mr Wise, John Appleton, William Goodhue, Robert Kinsman and Thomas French were arrested, brought before the court at Boston, and tried.  The prisoners pleading the privilege of Englishmen not to be taxed without their own consent, they were told that the Laws of England would not follow them to the end of the Earth,.... that they had no right to claim the privileges of Englishmen,....that the Kings Subjects in New-England did not differ much from Slaves, and that the only difference was, that they were not bought and sold.  In as much as the Prisoners mentioned had asserted their English Liberties, they were severly handled, not only imprisoned for several weeks, but fined and bound to their good behavior.  This act of resistance has been called "the foundation of American Democracy," and was the beginning of those events which eighty-eight years later culminated in the Revolutionary War.  It is commemorated in the seal of the town of Ipswich, which bears the motto, "The Birthplace of American Independence 1687."
       During the unhappy days of the Witchcraft Delusion John Andrews and his four sons were among those who signed the petition to save John Proctor and his wife, who had lived at Chebacco and had been tried and convicted of witchcraft at Salem; and although they could not save the husband, they put themselves on record as among the more tolerant of the people of New England.
        Lieut. John Andrew's sons were John, William Thomas, and Joseph (Dorothy's father).