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- Captain John Underhill, II, emigrated to America between 1628, the date of his marriage to Elizabeth De Hooch, and 14 Feb 1635/1636, the date his daughter, Elizabeth Underhill, was baptized in Boston, Massachusetts.
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In September of 1643 there was an uprising of the Indians in New Amstedam which threatened to eliminate both the English and the Dutch from that area. The colonists retreated to the Dutch fort at Amesfort, now the Flatlands in Brooklyn, directly north of Gravesend (Flatbush ?) in 1644, and remained there until "the famous Puritan soldier of fortune John Underhill, at the head of Dutch and English troops, inflicted severe defeats upon the Indians."
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"...a tract of two hundred and fifty acres given by the Indians to Capt. John Underhill who, after exterminating some hundreds of them, seems to have brought the remnant "to heel" and became their advisor in the contest with Hempstead about the payment for their lands. Capt. John Underhill came to Matinecock as Deputy Sheriff and Surveyor of the Customs in an endeavor to break up the smuggling then rife in the harbors on the north side of Long Island especially at Oyster Bay and Musketa Cove. Accompanying him came his young brother-in-law John Feke, the son of Lieut. Robert Feake and Bess Fones, the widow of Henry Winthrop, and it appears that he gave to young Feke the southeast part of the tract received from the Indians, on which Feke built and reared a family of considerable note, the last representatives of which in this vicinity are Mrs. Thomas F. Underhill and Miss Emeline A. Feeks."
"Killingworth, the naming of which has been heretofore attributed by sundry so-called historians to Capt. John Underhill as given in honorable remembrance of his English home at Kenilworth; but I am unable to get any proof that the family were seated at or near Kenilworth, but to the contrary Capt. John's father and mother were of Wolverhampton."
From The Frost Genealogy Author: Joesphine C. Frost: "An informal talk given Oct. 13, 1910, by Mr. George W. Cocks, the skilled genealogist and local historian of Oyster Bay, N. Y. "
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From this information from the Frost Genealogy it appears that John Underhill was probably not from Kenilworth as suggested elsewhere. Also, it seems certain, in spite of my earlier hesitation, that this was the John Underhill who married Elizabeth Feake. I will perform a merge which will return the spouse and children to Captain John Underhill. 1 May 2001 QLE
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John Underhill must have been a virile individual. Not only was he noted as a great warrior, he should also be noted for standing at stud. Being born about 1597 he would have been seventy-five years old at the birth of his last child, David Underhill, in April of 1672.
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On a lighter side, one genealogist writes:"Ken, I have a hunch that Capt. John Underhill was simply a trouble-maker. Most of the settlers who came to the western end of Long Island did so because they preferred to live under the benevolent religious, and fairly easy-going political, regime of the Dutch rather than the strict Puritanical control of the New Haven Colony. I have read that the New Haven government was the most Puritanical of all the New England governemnts. John
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![UNDERHILL, Captain John [1] Jr.](img/male.jpg)
Abt 1597 - 1672 (75 years)
