their chief military officer; but, Captain Miles Standish, his brave fellow soldier in the Low Countries, undertaking the business, he declined. How he joined Governor Winthrop, does not appear, but he came over to New England with him, and soon after we find him disciplining the Boston militia, where he was held in such high estimation that he was chosen to represent that town in the general court; but, his ideas of religious toleration being more liberal than those around him, he lost his popularity, and was, on the twentieth of November, one thousand six hundred and thirty-seven, disfranchised and eventually banished the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. The writers of those times differ, as to the particular offence for which he was punished. Some say that it was for holding the Antinomian tenets of the celebrated Anne Hutchinson, others that the charge against him was for saying, that the government at Boston were as zealous as the Scribes and Pharisees, and as Paul before his conversion. The best account, I have been able to collect, is, that at the time when the zeal of our worthy forefathers burned the hottest against heretics and sectaries, when good Roger Williams, who settled Providence, the pious Wheelright, and others, were banished, he, with about sixty other imprudent persons, who did not believe in the then popular arguments of fines, imprisonment, disfranchisement, confiscation, banishments, and halters for the conversion of infidels, supposed that the Christian faith, which had spread so wonderfully in its infancy, when the sword of civil power was drawn against it, in that age, surrounded by numerous proselytes, needed not the same sword unsheathed in its favor. These mistaken people signed a remonstrance against the violent proceedings, which were the order of that day. William Aspinwall and John Goggeshell, two of the Boston representatives, who signed the remonstrance, were sent home, and the town ordered to choose others in their room. Some of the remonstrants recanted, some were fined, some were disfranchised, and others, among whom was Captain Underhill, were banished.". "When the sentence of banishment passed on Captain Underhill, he returned to Dover in New Hampshire, and was elected governor of the European settlers there; but, notwithstanding his great service to the people of Massachusetts, in the Pequod wars, his persecutors in Boston would not allow him to die in peace. First, by writing injurious letters to those he governed; by threats of their power; and lastly, by determining that Dover was within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, they forced him to flee to Albany, then possessed by the Dutch, under the name of Amboyna. The Dutch were highly pleased with the captain, and after Dutchifying his name into Captain Hans van Vanderhill, they gave him a command of one hundred and twenty men, in their wars with the natives. It is said that he killed one hundred and fifty Indians on Long Island, and upwards of three hundred on the main. The laurels of the famous Colonel Church wither in comparison."a "At the period of his military employment (says Mr. Thompson,) he lived at Stamford, Connecticut, was a delegate from that town to the general court at New Haven in 1643, and was appointed an assistant justice. In 1644 he came with the Rev. Mr. Denton and others of his church, to Long Island, and soon after became a resident of Flushing, where he evinced the same restless temper as formerly, and was anxious for a military employment." "He was afterward settled in Oyster Bay, for in 1665 he was a delegate from that town to the meeting at Hampstead, by order of Governor Nicoll, and was by him. made high sheriff of the North Riding on Long Island." "In 1667, the Matinecock Indians conveyed to him a large tract of their lands, a part of which, called Killingworth, remained in his family for nearly two hundred years." Captain John Underhill, at an advanced age, died in Killingworth, leaving several sons; the youngest of whom, Nathaniel, (before mentioned,) removed to Westchester, in 1685. By his last will, bearing date the 18th of September, 1671, Capt. John Underhill bequeathes "his whole estate in possession of his wife Elizabeth Underhill, during ye time of her widowhood; but if she marry, then my brother John Bowne, Henry Townsend, Matthew Pryer, and my son John a The "Algerine Captive," by Dr Updike Underhill, vol. i. 25, printed at Walpole, New Hampshire, 1797. Originally Kenilworth, from the place of the same name in Warwickshire, Eng. • Thompson's Hist. of Long Island, vol. ii 358. to the people of Massachusetts, in the Pequod wars, his persecutors in Boston would not allow him to die in peace. First, by writing injurious letters to those he governed; by threats of their power; and lastly, by determining that Dover was within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, they forced him to flee to Albany, then possessed by the Dutch, under the name of Amboyna. The Dutch were highly pleased with the captain, and after Dutchifying his name into Captain Hans van Vanderhill, they gave him a command of one hundred and twenty men, in their wars with the natives. It is said that he killed one hundred and fifty Indians on Long Island, and upwards of three hundred on the main. The laurels of the famous Colonel Church wither in comparison."a "At the period of his military employment (says Mr. Thompson,) he lived at Stamford, Connecticut, was a delegate from that town to the general court at New Haven in 1643, and was appointed an assistant justice. In 1644 he came with the Rev. Mr. Denton and others of his church, to Long Island, and soon after became a resident of Flushing, where he evinced the same restless temper as formerly, and was anxious for a military employment." "He was afterward settled in Oyster Bay, for in 1665 he was a delegate from that town to the meeting at Hampstead, by order of Governor Nicoll, and was by him. made high sheriff of the North Riding on Long Island." "In 1667, the Matinecock Indians conveyed to him a large tract of their lands, a part of which, called Killingworth,b remained in his family for nearly two hundred years." Captain John Underhill, at an advanced age, died in Killingworth, leaving several sons; the youngest of whom, Nathaniel, (before mentioned,) removed to Westchester, in 1685. By his last will, bearing date the 18th of September, 1671, Capt. John Underhill bequeathes "his whole estate in possession of his wife Elizabeth Underhill, during ye time of her widowhood; but if she marry, then my brother John Bowne, Henry Townsend, Matthew Pryer, and my son John a The "Algerine Captive," by Dr Updike Underhill, vol. i. 25, printed at Walpole, New Hampshire, 1797. b Originally Kenilworth, from the place of the same name in Warwickshire, Eng. < Thompson's Hist. of Long Island, vol. ii 358. Underhill, I empower hereby that they see to ye estate, that ye children be not wronged, nor turned off, without some proportionable allowance, as ye estate will afford; and that my son Nathaniel, reinain with his mother untill twenty-one years, &c."a Upon the 22d of March, 1686-7, Nathaniel Underhill and Mary his wife, of the town and county of Westchester, conveyed all their land of every kind at Matinecock, Oyster Bay, "which is the land that my father, John Underhill, sen., lived upon, with forty acres in the woods, which I bought of the Indians," to John Underhill of Matinecock.b The sons of Nathaniel were Thomas, John, Nathaniel Underhill, jun., from whom were descended the late Anthony L. Underhill of New York, and Lancaster Underhill of Eastchester, and Abraham, from whom come the Underhills of Yorktown and Cortlandtown, &c. Nathaniel Underhill, jr., died at Westchester in 1775. The following epitaph is inscribed on his head stone in the family cemetery. Here lies the body of who was born August the this life November the 27th, 1775, aged 85 years 3 months and 16 days. Nathaniel, the eldest son of this individual, filled various public offices, and in 1775 was elected mayor of the borough of Westchester. Upon Dorman's Island, in the north-east corner of the town, is situated the estate of Mr. Thomas C. Taylor; the dwellinghouse, a fine stone structure, occupies a pleasant position, over |