The notion that Andrew Messenger of New Haven Colony, Greenwich, Connecticut, Hempstead, Long Island and Jamaica, Long Island had a father Andrew and mother Sarah is now considered to be totally fictitious. His origins are unknown and the possibility that immigrants Edward and Henry Messenger were brothers is not proven by any New England records. [3]
In her 1998 article, "The Three Messengers: Henry, Andrew, and Edward: Clearing the Decks" (NEHGR 152), Helen S. Ullmann does not find an elder Andrew Messenger to have been the father of the three immigrants (Henry, Andrew and Edward). Ullmann refers to the purported father as "this fictional Andrew."[3]
Many indexes and secondary sources[14] claim that Andrew arrived on the Hector or perhaps it's sister ship at Boston in 1637. This may be true, but there are no passenger lists for these ships and only a few passengers are known positively by name. The supposition was made because Messenger was among the signers of the New Haven Fundamental Agreement.
Andrew Messenger is an ancestor of President Millard Fillmore[15]
