69S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



the Turkey mountain, a vast tract of woodland covering 800 acres; 

 from the summit of which, the spectator has a noble prospect of the 

 surrounding country. At the foot of the mountain is situated the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Edward Burrough Underhill, son of the late Abraham I. 

 Underbill, " a worthy and prominent member of the society of Friends, 

 who sustained throughout a useful and protracted life, an unsullied repu- 

 tation." Abraham I. Underhill, who died on the 5th of May, 1841, 

 aged 78 years, was the second son of Isaac Underhill, fourth in descent 

 from John Underhill of Oyster Bay, L. I. In the old family mansion 

 which stands one mile south of this spot, ( on the Pine's Bridge road ) is 

 shown the room where Major Andre and Joshua H. Smith breakfasted 

 on the 23d of September, 1780. At this period, the house was occu- 

 pied by Isaac Underhill and Sarah his wife, a who appears to have been 

 a woman of good resolution and courage ; whilst engaged in entertaining 

 Andre and his companion, she took particular notice of the former — and 

 imagined she read in his confusion, a person embarrassed in some great 

 undertaking. A few days previous to this event, Mrs. Underhill had 

 visited head-quarters to recover some cattle carried off by a band of 

 marauders. 



This lady was the daughter of Robert Field, whose nephew John was 

 a resident of Yorktown. The following notice of the death of Moses 

 Field, (son of John) occurs in the New York American of Oct. 25, 1833 : 



"Died at Peekskill, on the 18th inst., Moses Field of this city, aged 

 fifty-three years. The poor could not have sustained a greater loss in 

 an individual. No man had more enlarged and persevering benevo- 

 lence in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and providing for the 

 sick. His greatest happiness appeared to be, to mitigate the suffering 

 and relieve the wants of the virtuous poor." 



Abraham J. Underhill, the son of Isaac and Sarah, has left us the 

 following account of his own and his father's Reminisences of the Revo- 

 lution : — 



" My father Isaac Underhill, born at White Plains, was a tall, healthy 

 man of great bodily strength, and very industrious even to old age — say 

 over eighty. During his life, he partly cleared three farms near Saw 

 Mill River, Nanahegan or Philips Manor, now the town of Mt. Pleasant. 

 He was possessed of good natural abilities and judgment, but like most 

 men of his time felt sadly the want of an early education. For many 

 years he was an elder in the society of Friends. Before leaving White 

 Plains my father had partly cleared the farms of his two brothers Jacob 

 and Abraham at Nanahegan, travelling to and fro by a foot path which 



a Upon the 9th of Nov., 1S32, George McKeel conveyed to Isaac McKeel, Daniel Smith, 

 Aaron Underbill and Edward Burrough Underhill, one acre of land, three miles north of 

 Pine'a Bridge. 



