In an undated petition probably from 1817 or 1818, orators and oratrices Thomas P. Andrews, Mary Pollard, Edward Brooking and Peggy his wife, Edward B. Wood and Nancy his wife, and Elizabeth Andrews complained to the Chancery Court. That Archibald Andrews died in 1817 an infant intestate with a tract of land in Middlesex amounting to twenty acres, and two slaves and money in the hands of Thomas Wright his guardian. Your orator Thomas and one Robert P. Andrews are the only brothers and your oratrices Molly, Peggy and Nancy are the only sisters of Archibald. Your oratrix Elizabeth was his mother. The land descended from his father (not named). [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 28, item 28-N-44.]

Thomas Andrews was mentioned in the 3 June 1821 will of his mother, Elizabeth Andrews, proved 15 December 1823. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 19, page 424.]

On 8 January 1824, Thomas P. Andrews, Mary Pollard, Robert P. Andrews on behalf of Edward Brooking, Edwd. B. Wood, and Robert P. Andrews acknowledged that they had received their respective proportions of the dower slaves held by the late Elizabeth Andrews. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 20, pages 18–19.]