His fadier, a native of Geneva, was born in Switzerland ; but it would seem that a very considerable portion of his life must have been passed at London, where he carried on an extensive business in the Levant Trade, and where also, in 1780, sev eral of his brothers had their abode. Of these Dr. Andree, of Halton Gardens, was apparently the only one who preserved what is said to have been an earlier method of spelling the family name. Notwithstanding the establishment of a part of the Andre family in England its connections upon the continent would appear to have been the most numerous and the most permanent."'

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6 The Arms of Andre or Andree, are Ar., two mallets, in chief az. and a galley, her oars In action, in base sa. ( -f-t. a millrind az. c Life of .Major Andre! by Winthrop Sargent.

THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH.

Among these was the Swedish Minister, Monsieur Andre, uncle to Major Andre ; another was the " celebrated Johann Andre, author of the opera of ' The Potter,' who was born at Offenbach in 1741, and who died in 17 no."0

Though as yet opportunity is wanting to verify the supposition, there is strong reason to believe that a near connection existed between the immediate family of Major Andre and the once celebrate St. Andre of Southampton -- a character whose career is scarcely to be paralleled even in the pages of Gil. Bias. This person came over to England from his native Switzerland, at a very early age and, probably, towards the close of the seventeenth century. By his own account, his origin was perfectly respectable, and even distinguished ; and in his later days he would assert that by right he was possessed of a title."6 Major John Andre was born either in London or Southampton, A.