This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wm.2ADEB/316.1058.1060.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: My late wife's Andrews ancestors came from an area in New York not far from Saratoga or Cayuga counties. Following is information about a couple of them. Do you see any connection with your Andrews? Thanks Fred Norton (Charlotte’s Ancestor) NAME…………………………THOMAS ANDREWS BORN………………………… BIRTHPLACE………………... MAYBE LITCHFIELD, HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK DIED PLACE OF DEATH………….MAYBE MICHIGAN FATHER………………………UNKNOWN ANDREWS MOTHER (MAIDEN NAME)..UNKNOWN WIFE #1………………………UNKNOWN MARRIAGE DATE PLACE OF MARRIAGE CHILDREN…………………..ABIGAIL “POLLY” ANDREWS, AMMAH ANDREWS, b. JULY 9, 1801 - TWIN AMASA ANDREWS, b. JULY 9, 1801 - TWIN WIFE #2………………………UNKNOWN MARRIAGE DATE PLACE OF MARRIAGE CHILDREN………………… JAMES ANDREWS Information known as of December 20, 2003 REMARKS: >From “Postmarked Hudson, Letters of Sarah A. Andrews to her brother, James A. Andrews 1864-1865 with a genealogy of the Andrews Family”; Thomas Andrews of Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York. His first wife died after 1801. He married for a second time, leaving a family, in Flint, Michigan. Issue: at least four children i. Abigail “Polly” Andrews ii. Amasa Andrews iii. Ammah Andrews iv. James Andrews died at the home of Amasa Andrews, his half brother, in Michigan after 1837. ======================================== NAME…………………………AMMAH ANDREWS BORN…………………………JULY 9, 1801 BIRTHPLACE………………..LITCHFIELD, HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK DIED…………………………JANUARY 5, 1888 PLACE OF DEATH…………HUDSON, ST. CROIX COUNTY, WISCONSIN FATHER……………………..THOMAS ANDREWS MOTHER (MAIDEN NAME).UNKNOWN WIFE #1……………………..LAURA ANDREWS MARRIAGE DATE………….BEFORE 1842 PLACE OF MARRIAGE CHILDREN………………….EMORY ANDREWS, b. JANUARY 4, 1836 MARIAM NANCY ANDREWS, b. 1841 – d. 1841 HARRIS ANDREWS, b. 1842 – d. 1842 WIFE #2……………………..MARTHA FULLER MARRIAGE DATE………….APRIL 6, 1843 PLACE OF MARRIAGE……COMMERCE, MICHIGAN CHILDREN………………….LAURA ADELAIDE. ANDREWS, b. MAY 22, 1847 HENRY AMMAH ANDREWS, b. APRIL 24, 1850 WIFE #3……………………..CATHERINE SCOTT MARRIAGE DATE………….AFTER 1850 PLACE OF MARRIAGE……HUDSON, WISCONSIN CHILDREN………………* HOWARD LINDSAY ANDREWS, b. MAY 1, 1853 Information known as of December 20, 2003 REMARKS: WE ARE TOLD HE WAS A TWIN. The 1850 census, Wisconsin, St. Croix County, unknown townships, Image 4, gives his wife’s name as Martha, age 38. Catherine may be a second wife, since Martha’s birthplace is shown as Vermont and Emory’s birthplace is shown as New York. Laura and Henry’s birthplaces are shown as Wisconsin. Howard’s birthplace was passed on to us as Hudson, Wisconsin. The 1850 AND 1860 censuses give Ammah’s occupation as carpenter. His twin was named Amasa Andrews. Amah Andrews is enumerated in the 1860 census, Wisconsin, St. Croix County, Hudson #2, (Part 2), Image 2. Amasa Andrews is enumerated in the 1860 census, Wisconsin, St. Croix County, Hudson # 2, Image 11, age given is 58. He is also a M. carpenter. His wife is Mary, age 49, also born in New York. >From “Postmarked Hudson, Letters of Sarah A. Andrews to her brother, James A. Andrews 1864-1865 with a genealogy of the Andrews Family”; Ammah Andrews was born in Litchfield, Herkimer Co., New York, a twin brother of Amasa and died in Hudson, St. Croix Co., Wis., January 5, 1888. He was married three times. His first wife was Laura Andrews, probably a cousin (who was born June 5, 1803 and died at Commerce, Mich., May 22, 1842). He married April 6, 1843 at Commerce, Mich., as his second wife Martha Fuller, who died in Hudson August 22, 1850, age 38 years, four months and 24 days. His third wife Catherine Scott (1820-1864), died in Hudson. Ammah Andrews was a carpenter, as was his father, and came to Hudson about 1847. He was the builder of many of the fine homes of Hudson in the early days. He served a year or so as a carpenter for the Army in Tennessee during the Civil War. With his son Emory, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1868. His sons Henry and Howard followed the next year. He returned to Hudson where he died. >From ‘Hudson’s Distinguished Men and Women” by Willis H. Miller: Another early comer whose handiwork is still extremely visible in Hudson, was Ammah Andrews (1801-1888), builder and contractor, who settled here in 1847. A great number of the beautiful old homes, many of which were built before the Civil War, were planned and constructed by Ammah Andrews. He was chairman at the first meeting of the county commissioners for St. Croix County in 1848.