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the first Presbyterian minister in Pennsylvania, was born at Hingham, Mass., in 1674, graduated at Harvard 1695, and settled in 1698 at Philadelphia, where he was ordained in 1701. In the division of the church in 1744, Mr. Andrews remained with the Old Side. Toward the close of his life he was suspended for immorality, but afterward restored. He died in 1747. — Sprague, Annals, 3, 10.