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John Underhill (c. 1608/09 – 21 July 1672) [1] was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also served as governor; the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York, settling on Long Island.
Sep 4, 2014 · Capt. John Underhill paid a steep price for crossing the early Puritan establishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was banished, and had to do some serious groveling to get back into the Puritans’ good graces. Underhill had been hired as a captain by the colony to help train the militia.
Captain John Underhill, great-grandson of Hugh Underhill, would emigrate from England to The Netherlands with his family, and then from The Netherlands to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where he became a leading figure in Colonial America.
John Underhill (c.1608–1672) was born in the Netherlands to English parents and received military training in the service of William, Prince of Orange. In 1630 he was hired by the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the rank of captain to help train the colony's militia.
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John Underhill was an early English settler and soldier in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, where he also was a governor; the New Haven Colony, New Netherland, and later the Province of New York, settling on Long Island.
The Society is often asked about the alleged portrait of Captain John Underhill of New York, first presented to the public in 1932 as the frontispiece to both Volume 1 of the Underhill Genealogy and Henry C. Shelley’s biography John Underhill Captain of New England and New Netherland.
Thus did Captain John Underhill, Massachusetts Bay Colony, justify the slaughter of hundreds of helpless Pequot women, children and the aged at Mystic, Connecticut Colony, in 1637.
