John Underhill (1642 - 1692)

Born 11 Apr 1642 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 29 Oct 1692 at age 50 in Long Island, New York Colony

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Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

"John the Sonne of our brother Mr John Underhill being about 13 dayes old" was baptized the 24th day of the 2nd month 1642 (24 April 1642).^[1][2] This calculates to his birth as 11 April 1642^[3]

John married on 1d 8m 1668 [1 Oct 1668] to Mary Prior.^[4][2][5]He died on Long Island, New York on December 28,1672.^[6]

According to the Underhill Genealogy, "He was a Quaker, and a farmer, the ancestor of the majority of Long Island Underhills. He came to own a large part of his father's Killingworth land, including the Underhill Burying Ground where he and Mary lie buried; some of this property remained in the hands of their descendants until the second half of the twentieth century. John Jr.'s residence, however, was on property obtained from his father-in-law Matthew Prior, lying just north of Capt. John's land. the house is still standing (and at the time of publication of this book, was owned and had been restored by a John William Mackay, a descendant of John Underhill, Jr.) This area, long known as Matinecock, is in the Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY."

Besides Abraham, the couple had the following children, according to Friends Records: John III, b 1670; Daniel, b. 1672; Samuel, b. 1675; Mary, b. 1777; Deborah, b. 1682; Jacob, b. 1689 and Hannah, b. 1690.

Sources

1. ↑ Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Vol. 39 The Records of the First Church in Boston 1630–1868. (Boston: Published by the Society, 1961) p. 290
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1995). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1862/23896221
3. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Family Search file 397042 image 20 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-998Q-HXVH
4. ↑ James E. Hazard Index, The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.; Call Number N 452; Volume 3.1; Page 3; ID 71888
5. ↑ "Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity." The New York genealogical and biographical record. Volume VI (1875) p. 97
6. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol III. Family Search file 432602, image 194. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3HY-CS8Q-T?i=193&cat=185431

• The Underhill Genealogy, VOL V, published in 1980 by Gateway Press, Baltimore.