The last is said to have been distinguished for a poetical talent.a Of these sisters, Louisa Catherine was born 1754, and Mary Hannah about 1752, according to the inscriptions in the church yard at Bath-Hampton, where they are buried ; the last of these two dates going far to fix that of Major Andre's birth as of 1751.

In 1780, also, there were yet living at London, two brothers of the elder Andre : Mr. David Andre, of New Broad street, and Mr. John Lewis Andre, of Warnford Court, Throgmorton street, who were known to the community as respectable Turkey merchants, and who doubtless still carried on at the old place, the business in which their brother had prospered well, but which their nephews had declined.6

In 1769, while at the head of his mother's house at Buxton, Matlock, he first became acquainted with Miss Seward." It is almost certain that he formed with another lady a friendship that left its coloring on the whole of his future life.** This was Miss Honora Sneyd, daughter of Edward, the younger son of Ralph Sneyd, Esq., of Bishton, in Staffordshire. This lady in 1773, married Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Upon finding that his attentions to Miss Sneyd were unavailing, Mr. Andre quitted his profession and entered the British Army in America. His first commission was dated March 4th, 1771.

The regiment which Andre joined was the Seventh Foot, or Royal English Fusiliers; one of the oldest corps in the line, and dating its formation in the year 1685. The rank of ensign does not exist in a fusilier regiment, the grade being supplied by a second lieutenant ; it was in this latter capacity that he seems to have first served. In April, 1773, the regiment had been embarked for Canada, where it performed garrison duty at Quebec for several months, until it was sent to Montreal, and variously posted in Lower Canada.