412 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



estate of his father, of Killingworth, 4th of November, 1975. Upon" the 

 2 2d of March, 16S6 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, Senr., lived upon, with forty acres in the woods, which I 

 bought of the Indians,'' to John Underhill of Matinecock. 6 



The sons of Nathaniel were Thomas, John, Nathaniel Underhill, Jr., 

 from whom descended the late Anthony L. Underhill of New York, and 

 Lancaster Underhill, of Eastchester, and Abraham, from whom came 

 the Underhills of Yorktown and New York. 



Nathaniel Underhill, Jr., grandson of Capt. John Underhill, died at 

 Westchester, in 1775. The following epitaph is inscribed on his head- 

 stone in the family cemetery : — 



"Here lies the body of 



NATHANIEL UNDERHILL, 



who was born August the 11th, 1690, 



and departed this life November 27th, 1775, 



aged 85 years, 3 months, and 1G days. 



Nathaniel, the eldest son of this individual, filled various public offices. 

 He was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County 

 of Westchester, in 1759; and in 1775, was elected Mayor of the Bo- 

 rough of Westchester. 



Nathaniel Underhill, son of John Underhill, of Yonkers, (great grand- 

 son of Nathaniel and Mary Ferris), appears to have been a firm and de- 

 voted loyalist during the Revolutionary War. On one occasion he was 

 captured by a party of Tories or Cowboys, led by Isaac Martlingh, who 

 conveyed their prisoner to a neighboring barn, suspended him by his 

 feet, compelled him to eat oats off the floor, and otherwise badly treated 

 him. The sufferer on being released, vowed vengence on his tormen- 

 tors, declaring he would shoot every one of them if an opportunity 

 should ever occur ; and happening to encounter Martlingh soon after- 

 wards, shot him dead on the spot. c 



The house of James Quimby (who married Hannah, daughter of 

 Isaac Underhill, of Yorktown, grandson of Nathaniel Underhill and 

 Mary Ferris), near the Spencer place, now owned by Doctor Pearsall, 

 " was often robbed during the Revolutionary War, and the family had a 

 place of concealment to which they always fled whenever attacked on 



a New York Surrogates Office, No. 1, 212. 

 b Queen's County Bee. Lit). 15. 91. 



c. Ttin Btory was related bv the late Lancaster Underhill, of Eastchester who had often 

 heard bis father, a brother of Nathaniel, recount the adventure. 



