James Underwood (abt. 1765 - aft. 1824)

Born about 1765 in Culpeper, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Polly (Jackson) Underwood — married about 1800 in Virginia, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

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Biography

James Underwood was a Virginia colonist.

James Underwood was an early pioneer in the Indiana Territory.

James Underwood was born in about 1765 in Culpeper, Virginia, the son of Jonathan Nathan Underwood and Margaret Offill.

The 1782 United States (Continental) Census for Richmond, Virginia lists James at age 14. (If he was 14 in 1782 he was born in 1768).

The 1800 Fayette County, Kentucky Tax List lists James living in Fayette County, Kentucky.

James came to (present-day) Jefferson County in company with Jesse Vawter in the spring of 1806, settling about four miles north of the present city of Madison, on the headwaters of Crooked Creek. The first graveyard in the county was on his farm and is still used for the interment of the old settlers. That is where he was buried. It still bears the name of the 'Underwood Graveyard.'

On 24 October 1807 James and other citizens of Clark County, Indiana Territory (now Jefferson County) signed a petition to Governor William Henry Harrison that he issue a commission to John Vawter as a Justice of the Peace, because they were twenty miles from one.

James was on list of electors, 22 May 1809 in Madison Township, Clark County, Indiana.^[1]

James was a jury member in the November 1815 term of the Jefferson Circuit Court.

Sources

1. ↑ 1810 Census: "U.S., Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820"
   Document: Election Returns, 1809, 1812 [Indiana Historical Society]; Call Number: Coll. # M98 Box 32; Volume Number: Folder 6; Page Number: 5; Family Number: 1
   Ancestry Record 2234 #19540 (accessed 29 September 2023)
   James Underwood in Madison Township, Clark County, Indiana.

• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLR-CV1), James Underwood, Summersville, Green, Kentucky, United States; citing p..., NARA microfilm publication...,(Washington D.C.: Natl Archives and Records Admin n.d.), roll..., FHL microfilm...

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-195database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ9-RZ64), James Underwood in entry for Elza Mahoney and Sarah A Underwood, 18 Jan 1849; citing Marriage, Trimble, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 420,390.

• “A History of Jefferson County, Indiana” by Emery O. Muncie (https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Underwood-1295)

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• Geni Profile (https://www.geni.com/people/James-Underwood/6000000000078 221)

• Jefferson Circuit Court Order Book A 1810-1819, as found in The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry, Jefferson County, Indiana, Special No. 3, Little York, IN: 1991, page 102.

• 1782 - Ancestry.com, Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890 (database on-line), Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999, Name: James Underwood, State: VA, County: Richmond City, Richmond County, Township: Age 14, Year: 1782, Record Type: Continental Census, Page: 116, Database: VA Early Census Index.

• 1800 - Ancestry.com, Kentucky, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1890 (database on-line), Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999, Name: James Underwood, State: KY, County: Fayette County, Year: 1800, Record Type: Tax list, Database: KY Early Census Index.