Heylken de Hooch

Biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Underhill_(captain)

Following his father's death, John Underhill and his siblings lived with their mother and a group of Puritan exiles in the Netherlands. While there he received military training as a cadet in the service of Philip William, the Prince of Orange. He also married a Dutch girl, Helena (Heylken) de Hooch on 12 December 1628 in the Kloosterkerk, The Hague, Holland.[1] They had one child born in the Netherlands before emigrating, Deborah Underhill, and two other children after emigrating: Elizabeth (born 1635) and John Underhill (1642–1692).

Following the death of his first wife and his mother in 1658, Underhill married his second wife Elizabeth Feake on 2 December 1658, in Oyster Bay. Feake was a Quaker and converted John to Quakerism before he died.

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Wife 1: Helena de Hooch, b. ca. 1608 at Gorinchem, the Netherlands; d. ca. 19 Aug 1658 at Southold, Long Island, NY. Marriage: 12 Dec. 1628, in the Kloosterkerk, the Hague, the Netherlands.

Note on Helena: The Underhills were living in the Netherlands prior to their departure for the New World in 1630. Young Capt. John 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.

Children:

1. Deborah, b. ca. 1629; d. ca. 1659
2. Elizabeth, bap. 14 Feb 1636 in Boston, MA
3. John Jr., b. 1642; d. 1692; m. 1668 Mary Prior (1652-98)

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Birth: in Holland

Note:

• Pearsall, Clarence E., [View Citation] [Table of Contents] [Page Numbers]
• History and genealogy of the Pearsall family in England and America
• San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1928, 1915 pgs.

Marriage 1 John UNDERHILL b: ABT 1597

Children

• 1. John UNDERHILL

Sources:

1. Type: Book

• Author: Clarence Pearsall
• Periodical: History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America
• Publication: H. S. Crocker, San Francisco 1928
• Page: 1915 pages
• Page: Chapter 30, Section 3, Page 1065

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The mother of Capt. John Underhill was a widow living in Holland in 1618, and it should be conceded that he was residing there with her at that time, but no authentic evidence is found concerning him until Nov.28, 1628, on which date the Betrothal Records of Gorinchem and the Hague testify to his betrothal to Heylken, daughter of Willem de Hooch of the former place and in each entry he is described as a Cadet in the Guard of the Prince of Orange. As a sequel to those entries, the marriage of the couple on December 12, 1628, is recorded in the records of the Kloosterkerk at The Hague. He makes one other appearance in the Dutch records there on Feb.26, 1630, when he signs a document stating his acceptance of the division of his wife's father's estate.

In 1658 his first wife, Helena, died there and there has recently been erected to her memory a small slate stone, to harmonize with those of the pioneers still standing in the Presbyterian Cemetery in that place. * (see notation regarding this passage at the end) Early in the following year he married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. Robert and Elizabeth (Fownes-Winthrop) Feake, and sold his property in Southold on April 1st to Thomas Moore.