Early Life and Family
John Andrews, D.D., A.B., MA, first son of Moses and Letitia Cooke Andrews, was born in Cecil County on Eastern Shore of Maryland, about six miles from the head of the Elk River, on 4 April 1746, His childhood home was a 75 acre tract of land called "Lesson" (patented to his father 10 March 1746) in Cecil County, Maryland. He was great, grandson of John Andrews who immigrated in 1654 from Bisbrooke, County of Rutland, England, to Anne Arundel County or Calvert County of the Province of Maryland under the patronage of Lord Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.
In 1772, Andrews married Elizabeth Callender, daughter of Revolutionary Capt. Robert Callender of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Frances Slough. They had ten children, Robert (2), John (5), Letitia, Mary, Joseph, William Neill, George, Elizabeth Callender, Edward (5), and Mary Benger. The eldest, Robert, graduated at the Academy and College of Philadelphia in 1790. Mrs. Andrews death on 22 February 1798, was occasioned by the death of shock she encountered by a sudden death of a son caused by a fire.
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