UNDERHILL/SMITH 9thGGF Captain John Underhill, 1630 immigrant
The journey back to Queen
Elizabeth's "Keeper of the Wardrobe" -direct ancestry of the
Underhill family from Hunningham, Warwickshire, England to
Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York:
FROM
KENILWORTH TO KILLINGWORTH
as far back as:
Sir Hugh Underhill (1518 - 1593)
Son of
Thomas KEEPER OF THE WARDROBE for QUEEN ELIZABETH I at GREENWICH
On 6 Feb 1563 he
was appointed by Queen Elizabeth Keeper of the Wardrobe at the King's
Manor at Greenwich. In 1563 he was elevated to be responsible for
the Wardrobe of Beds. (This position was one of the highest maintaining the
countless hangings of tapestry and the Cloths of State, the great carpets and
all upholstering of chairs, stools, curtains, bedsteads, and more. In 1590 he was
appointed by the Queen as Keeper of the Garden in the manor of East
Greenwich. He is mentioned in several wills of the Royal Household, an
indication that he was held in high regard.
Sir
Thomas Underhill (1545 - 1591)
Son of
Sir Hugh KEEPER OF KENILWORTH CASTLE for EARL OF LEICESTER
Thomas
was Keeper of the Wardrobe at Kenilworth Castle, to
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. Kenilworth was given to
Dudley by Queen Elizabeth, who would have visited him there
during Thomas' appointment. In 1585 the Queen appointed the Earl of
Leicester commander of her forces in the Netherlands, fighting with the Dutch
against the Spanish. Thomas accompanied the Earl on this assignment. The fact
that Thomas Underhill, son of a well-regarded member of her own household
(Sir Hugh) was assigned to Kenilworth, shows the affection Queen Elizabeth I
had both for Dudley and Underhill.
John Edward Underhill (1574 - 1608)
Son of
Sir Thomas
John Underhill was a friend and companion to the Earls of Leicester and Essex, and
while a youth held a commission in the Earl of Leicester's own Troop of
Guards, that was sent to the assistance of the Dutch by Queen Elizabeth I.
When the Netherlands offered their sovereignty to the Earl of Leicester, John Edward
Underhill was the bearer of confidential dispatches to Lord Burleigh, the
Queen's Minister. After the fall and execution of Leicester,
he attached himself to the Earl of Essex. He accompanied Essex who
captured Cadiz, Spain for the King of France, and was part of Devereux's
expedition to the Azores, where Underhill was listed as dead in the
muster rolls of Capt. Roger Orme's Company, 1608.
Following his father's death, John Jr. and his siblings lived with his
mother, HONOR/LEONORA PAWLEY (b. 1575, Cornwall) in the
Netherlands with a group of Puritan exiles. While there he received
military training as a cadet in the service of Philip Willam, the Prince of
Orange, a great military strategist. She immigrated to the colonies in
1630, probably in the company of her son, John and his first wife and children.
Capt.
John Underhill, Immigrant 1630
Son of
John Edward
JOHN born
near Kenilworth England about 1597. He first married (1) Heylken
(Helena) de Hooch 12 Dec 1628 at the Kloosterkerk at the Hague,
Holland who died at Southold LI NY before 19 Aug 1658. He
then married (2) ELIZABETH FEAKE in 1658 Southold LI
NY. Elizabeth was born about 1633 Watertown MA to Robert Feake and
Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop aka "The Winthrop
Woman," and died at Killingworth Oyster Bay LI before 4 Nov
1675.
While
in the Netherlands, John was a cadet in the guard of the Prince of Orange
in 1628. It was there that young Captain John Underhill became a
fellow soldier of Captain
Miles Standish. In 1620, Standish was employed to train the
Plymouth Militia. Ten years later John Underhill, now Captain, sailed from
Yarmouth with John Winthrop and his nine hundred immigrants to the
Bay Colony, under an agreement to train the Militia of the new settlement of
Boston. A year later, Underhill was sworn freeman and was one of
the first deputies to the General Court. One
of the earliest acts of the new government was to order that the first
Thursday of every month be general training day of Captain Underhill's Company, at
Boston.
Captains Underhill
and Daniel Patrick became the first paid military officers in Massachusetts
Bay.
Capt. John
Underhill is given credit for the colonists' victory in the Pequot War
in 1637 but soon after signed a petition in behalf of Anne Hutchinson and
Rev. John Wheelwright and his citizenship rights in the colony were removed. He
was banished and went to now called New Hampshire where he served as Governor
of Exeter and Dover for a year. In 1641 his banishment was lifted and he
returned to Massachusetts Bay Colony for a short time.
In
1630, Underhill published a book titled: Newes from America; Or, A New and Experimentall
Discoverie of New England; Containing, A Trve Relation of Their War-like
Proceedings These Two Yeares Last Past, with a Figure of the Indian Fort, or
Palizado
The
immigrant, John Underhill, eventually settled on a tract of land he
purchased from the Indians, in the town of Oyster Bay, which he named
after his birthplace, Kenilworth -spelled Killingworth. He
became a member of the Society of Friends in his old age, and here he
died in 1672. President Theodore Roosevelt provided a speech at the
dedication of a monument to Captain Underhill at the Underhill Burying Ground,
Oyster Bay, 1908.
Descendancy through Capt. John and Elizabeth Feake (dau. of "The Winthrop Woman")
Deborah
Underhill (1659 - 1698) married Henry Townsend of Oyster Bay (1649-1703)
Daughter
of Capt. John
Uriah Townsend (1698 - 1767)
Son of
Deborah
Robert Townsend (1728 - 1803)
Son of
Uriah
Uriah Townsend (1753 - 1804)
Son of
Robert
Ezra Edwin Townsend (1788 - 1851)
Son of
Uriah
Rebecca Townsend (1808 - 1878) married George Walter
Watson
Daughter
of Ezra Edwin
Marietta Watson (1830 - 1890)
Daughter
of Rebecca
Emma Jane Amrhine, Emerine (1860 - 1933)
Daughter
of Marietta
Leon Vern Smith
Son of
Emma Jane
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