UNDERHILL

Simon de Underhulle (c1220-c1275) of Bushbury Hill, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, m.1245 Amice de Grimhill (1225-1307) daughter of Richard of Grimhill

Robert de Underhill (1250-after 1313) of Bushbury, married Elena, and had sons Thomas and Richard.

Richard de Underhill (1290-after 1343) of Brushbury, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire

Thomas Underhill (c1322-after 1398) of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, m(1) Isabella (1316-1366) m.1369 Elena (Eleanor) Thomas (1350-c1400) 

William Underhill (1371-1443) of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, married Joan Stanley (1370-1435)

Nicholas Underhill (1411-1489) of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, m.1450 Miss Batte (c1430-1461) of Long Compton, Warwickshire
. 1. John Underhill (1450-1518) see below
. 2. Richard Underhill (d.1535) married a Congreve and had two daughters
. 3. Nicholas Underhill (fl.1524) Bushbury
. 4. William Underhill (fl.1524) Bushbury

John Underhill (c1450-1518) of Ettington, Warwickshire, m.c1474 Susan Slade (1435-1478); m.1483 Agnes Porter (1455-1526) daughter of Thomas Porter and Elizabeth (through whom John acquired the lease on Ettington), and widow of Myles Norwood.  His coat of arms was used by Capt. John Underhill (1609-1672)
. 1. William Underhill (c1476-c1543) married Alice, but had no children.
. 2. Thomas Underhill (1485-1520) m.1509 Anne Wynter, see below
. 3. Edward Underhill (1486-7 Mar 1546/7) married Margaret Middlemore and had 15 children.
. 4. Robert Underhill, youngest son died 1527 and appears to have been a priest.
. 5. Elizabeth Underhill (d. before 1536) m(1) John Agard, m(2) James Gresley
. 6. Susan Underhill (d. after 1551) married Richard Salway
. 7. Dorothy Underhill married Humphrey Young 

Thomas Underhill (c1485-1520) of Hunningham, Warwickshire, m.1509 Anne Wynter (1485-1545) of Huddington, Worchester, daughter of Robert Wynter and Margery Underhill.  She m(2) Edmund Lydiard of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
. 1. Alice Underhill, died unmarried
. 2. Elizabeth Underhill (c1510) married Edmund Lydiard of Glympton, Oxfordshire
. 3. Edward Underhill (1512-after 1579) married Joan Sperin, widow Downe, of East Greenwich,
. . . 11 children.  He served as royal bodyguard from Henry VIII through Queen Mary; was called
. . . the "Hot Gospeller" for his Protestant ballads, briefly imprisoned by Queen Mary.
. 4. Ralph Underhill (c1514-7 May 1557) married Mary Colles, no children
. 5. Thomas Underhill (c1516-25 Apr 1571) m.12 Nov 1538 Christian Arnold; m.1 May 1542 Ann
. . . Wood (d.1603), six children; served the Lord Mayor of London in various capacities. Recent
. . . research casts doubt upon Thomas being the son of Thomas.
. 6. Hugh Underhill (c1518-Jan 1593) see below.  Although this lineage was accepted by the College
. . . of Arms in 1932, recent research casts doubt upon Hugh being the son of Thomas.

Sir Hugh Underhill (c1518-Jan 1593) Keeper of the Wardrobe at the King's Manor in Greenwich, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. He married first possibly a daughter of Thomas Maynman, and married secondly about 1572 Katherine Manning (1548-1627)
. 1. Thomas Underhill (c1545-1591) m.1570 Magdalen Amyas
. 2. George Underhill (1573-1623/7) married twice, one daughter.

Thomas Underhill (c1545-1591) m.1570 Magdalen Amyas (1538-1597) daughter of John Amyas and Anne Stace.  Thomas was born in Greenwich, Kent, but became the keeper of Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532-1588) favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
. 1. Thomas Underhill (c1572-1591/7) no issue
. 2. John Underhill (1574-Oct 1608) married 1595 Honora Pawley (1575-1658) see below
. 3. George Underhill (1578-1625) nothing is known of his family
. 4. Lettice Underhill (c1579-after 1624) m.6 Jul 1600 Reynold Spicer, 9 children
. 5. Hugh Underhill (d.1624) m.26 Oct 1612 Pertsey Bateman, who m(2) Robert Moore; 2 daughters
. 6. Mary Underhill (d.Dec 1601) unmarried
. 7. Clement Underhill (fl.1597)

John Underhill (c1574-Oct 1608) married 1595 Honora Pawley (1575-1658) daughter of James Pawley (1540-1588) and Isabelle Bonython of Uny Lelant, Cornwall. John was probably born in Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, and served as assistant to Sir Robert Dudley, illegitimate son of the Earl of Leicester.  He probably accompanied Dudley on his 1594-5 voyage to the West Indies, and the expedition against Cadiz in 1596.  John Underhill of Staffordshire was listed in Oct 1605 in the service of the Archduke of Austria in Brussels. On 2 Aug 1607, John was posted at Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands, where he was listed as dead in the muster rolls of Capt. Roger Orme's Company in October 1608.  Honor was born in St Germains, Cornwall.  She remained in the Netherlands after her husband died, and her name became Leonora, which easier for the Dutch to pronounce.  She took up residence in The Hague, and remarried 28 Nov 1628 to Richard Morris and immigrated to Boston in 1630, joining First Church the same day as The Captain, 27 Aug 1630.  They moved to Exeter (now in Hew Hampshire) in 1638, then to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in March 1642.
. 1. Petronella Underhill m. before 1630 Ulrich Lupold.  lived in new Amsterdam at least 1638-1642.
. 2. Lettice Underhill (c1608-1673) m.before 1634 Richard Bulgar (c1607-1687)  lived in Newport, RI
. 3. John Underhill (c1609-1672) m.1628 Helena de Hooch (1608-1658), m.1658 Elizabeth Feake

Captain John Underhill (c.1609-21 Sep 1672) married secondly Elizabeth Feake (1633-Nov 1675) John was born at Bergen-op-Zoom, in The Netherlands, and may have been a posthumous child.  He began his military training in Holland about 1625 and had served with Dutch forces in the continental wars before being hired by John Winthrop and the Puritans as their first military commander and protector.  Capt. John Underhill came to the Americas with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. At first, he was a captain of the Boston militia and fought in the Pequot War of 1636 . He fell out of favor with the Puritan government in the midst of the Ann Hutchison religious controversy of 1638 and was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony.  While in England, he wrote The Newes From America about his escapades in the Pequot War, and advertising for new immigrants.    He had a permit to inhabit in New Amsterdam in 1639.  He later served as governor of Dover, sheriff of Flushing, and various turns as a military commander for both English and Dutch forces. He held land in Stamford, CT, in 1643. On June 3, 1653, he was commissioned by Rhode Island as a privateer with the charge to seize any Dutch properties claimed by the English.  In 1667, he retired to his estate of Killingworth in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY where he died 21 Sep 1672.  He was admitted to the Boston Church in late 1630, excommunicated for adultery 3 Mar 1640, readmitted 3 Sep 1640, dismissed to the church at Exeter 22 Aug 1641.  With his second wife, he was a Quaker in Flushing, New York.

He married 12 Dec 1628, in the Kloosterkerk, the Hague, the Netherlands, to Helena de Hooch, who was born about 1608 at Gorinchem, the Netherlands, daughter of Willem Jansen de Hooch and Govertgen Emits of Gorinchemand, and died about 19 Aug 1658 at Southold, Long Island, NY.   The Underhills were living in the Netherlands prior to their departure for the New World in 1630.

He married late in 1658 at Flushing, NY.  Elizabeth Feake, born about 1633 at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony; d. ca. 1675 at the Underhill estate, "Killingworth," Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY  She was the daughter of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake, the latter being the basis for the Anya Seton novel, The Winthrop Woman.
From:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Underhill  and  http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/pirates/underhill.shtml 

. 1. Deborah Underhill (c1629-bef.1659)
. 2. Elizabeth Underhill (bp.14 Feb 1636 in Boston)
. 3. John Underhill, Jr. (11 Apr 1642-23 Oct 1692) m.1668 Mary Prior (1652-1698), Oyster Bay
. 4. Deborah Underhill (29 Nov 1659-30 Mar 1698) m. c1676 Henry Townsend (c1649-1718)
. 5. Nathaniel Underhill (22 Feb 1663/4-1710) m. Mar 1685/6 Mary Ferris
. 6. Hannah Underhill (2 Dec 1666-23 Aug 1757) m.1685 Capt. Richard Alsop (1660-1718)
. 7. Elizabeth Underhill (2 May 1669-aft.1747) m.1689 Isaac Smith (1657-1747)
. 8. David Underhill (Apr 1673-1708) m(1) unknown, m(2) Hannah

Elizabeth Underhill (2 May 1669-after 1747) married about 1689 Isaac Smith (1657-1747) son of Abraham Smith. They lived on the east side of Hempstead Plains. She is supposed to have married (2) Joshua Smith.  They attended the Quaker Church at Flushing until 1702, when he converted to the Church of England under the preaching of Rev. George Keith, who stayed at his house 21 Nov 1703.  
. 1. Jacob Smith (1690-1757) m.1719 Freelove Jones (1700-c1741) m(2) Phebe Conkling
. 2. Micah Smith (1704- May 1747) married 7 May 1725 Phebe Thorne (1701)

Margaret Edwards (1789-1864) m.1821 Thomas Tate (1775-1838)

Thomas Edwards Tate (1821-1914) m.1845 Mary Vernon Cutrer (1825-1892)

Frances Mary Tate (1852-1881) m.1871 Walter Edwin Tynes (1848-1928)

Jeanne Marie Tynes (1878-1958) m.1913 Carson B Matthews (1874-1948)

Frances Mary Tate Matthews (1917) m.1949 Virgil Raymond Liptrap (1907-1977)

James Matthews Liptrap (1951)