Honor or Leora Morris

1630 Moved to New England

ELEVENTH GENERATION

Children of JOHN UNDERHILL and HONOR/LEONORA PAWLEY:

• +1. JOHN born near Kenilworth England about 1597 [NO]; died 21 Sep 1672 Oyster Bay LI NY; married (1) 12 Dec 1628 at the Kloosterkerk at the Hague, Holland, Heylken de Hooch; died at Southold LI NY before 19 Aug 1658; married (2) 1658 Southold LI NY ELIZABETH FEAKE born about 1633 Watertown MA; died at Killingworth Oyster Bay LI before 4 Nov 1675; daughter of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones. John left will dated 18 Sep 1671. John was a cadet in the guard of the Prince of Orange in 1628; he went to Boston MA arriving there after 26 Feb 1630. No doubt he came to the Bay Colony with John Winthrop; he and Daniel Patrick became the first paid military officers in Massachusetts Bay. He is given credit for the colonists' victory in the Pequot War in 1637 but soon after signed a petition in behalf of Anne Hutchinson and Rev. John Wheelwright and his citizenship rights in the colony were removed. He was banished and went to now called New Hampshire where he served as Governor of Exeter and Dover for a year. In 1641 his banishment was lifted and he returned to Massachusetts Bay Colony for a short time. By 1642 he had leased a farm in New Amsterdam and was also granted eight acres of land in Stamford CT (New Haven Colony). He finally settled in New Amsterdam by 1644. In 1653, war broke out between the English and the Dutch and he went to Rhode Island offering his services to fight with the English. A year later, after peace was declared, he settled in Southold LI where his first wife died in 1658. Shortly after, he married Elizabeth Feake and they lived at Killingworth, the family home at Oyster Bay. He died in 1672 and was the first to be buried in the Underhill Burying Ground on his property. John was a man of extremes and in many ways eccentric. Though devoutly religious, his moral conduct on one occasion suggests that he was open to temptation. He was accused of daily visiting a young, lonely woman and confessed: "that the woman was in great trouble of mind . . . that he resorted to her to comfort her; and that when the door was found locked upon them, they were in private prayer together." He admitted to the adultery and was made to publicly "sit upon the stool of repentance" where he lamented about his wicked way of life and hypocrisy and asked for forgiveness.
• 2. Lettice married at Boston MA about 1633 Richard Bulgar.
• 3. Petronella married about 1638 Ulrich Lupold.

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10th Generation

Children of THOMAS UNDERHILL and MAGDALEN AMYAS:

• 1. Thomas born about 1572; died after 1591.
• 2. JOHN born about 1574; listed as dead in the muster rolls of Capt. Roger Orme's Company at Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands Oct 1608; married at St. Ives, Lelant Cornwall about 1596 HONOR/LEONORA PAWLEY born about 1575 Uny Lelant Cornwall; daughter of James Pawley and Isabelle Bonython; died at Newport RI before 18 Dec 1658 as widow of Richard Morris.
• 3. George born 1578; probably the one buried 28 Apr 1625 at St. Martin in the Fields, London.
• 4. Lettice born about 1579; married 6 July 1600 at London Reynold Spicer. +5. Hugh buried 9 Dec 1624 at St. Vedast's London; married 26 Oct 1612 Pertsey Bateman. Hugh was a London goldsmith.
• 6. Mary buried 16 Dec 1601 at St. Martin in the Fields.
• 7. Clement died after 1597.

Children of William Underhill and (unknown):

• 1. William; sold his home "New Place" in Stratford-on-Avon to William Shakespeare in 1597.