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John Underhill was born 7 October 1597 in Baginton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom to John Edward Underhill (c1574-1608) and Honor Pawley (c1575-c1658) and died 21 September 1672 Killingworth, Matinecock, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Heijlken de Hooch (c1598-1658) 12 December 1628 in The Hague, Netherlands. He married Elizabeth Feake (1633-1675) 2 December 1658 in Oyster Bay, New York, United States.

1636 Pequot War

Pequot war

A 19th-century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War.

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of English colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.


Children


Offspring of John Underhill and Heijlken de Hooch (c1598-1658)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Deborah Underhill (1630-bef1658)
Elizabeth Underhill (1635-)
John Underhill (1642-1692)


Offspring of John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake (1633-1675)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Deborah Underhill (1659-1698)
Nathaniel Underhill (1663-1710) 22 December 1663 Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, USA 10 November 1710 Westchester County, New York, USA Mary Ferris (1662-1715)
Hannah Underhill (1666-1757)
Elizabeth Underhill (1669-1704)
David Underhill (1672-1708)


 






Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General


  1. ^ John Winthrop, Journal of John Winthrop. ed. Dunn, Savage, Yeandle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 228.
  2. ^ Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres", in History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," Man in the Northwest 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103–114; Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172
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