How he joined Governor Winlhrop, does not appear, but he came over to New England with him, atid soon after we find him disciplining the Boston militia, where he was lield in such high estimation that he' was chosen to represent that town in the general court; but, his ideas of religious toleration being more liberal than those aroimd him, he lost his popularity, and was, on the twentieth of November, one thousand six hundred and thirty-seven, disfranchised and eventually banished the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.

The writers of those times differ, as to the particular offence for which he was punished. Some say that it was for holding the Antinomian tenets of the celebrated Anne Hutchinson, others that the charge against him was for saying, that the government at Boston were as zealous as the Scribes and Pharisees, and as Paul before his conversion. The best account, I have been able to collect, is, that at the time when the zeal of our worthy forefathers burned the hottest against heretics and sectaries, when good Roger Williams, who settled Providence, the pious Wheelright, and others, were banished, he, with about sixty other imprudent persons, who did not believe in the then popular arguments of fines, imprisonment, disfranchisement, confiscation, banishments, and halters for the conversion of infidels, supposed that the Christian faith, which had spread so wonderfully in its infancy, when the sword of civil power was drawn against it, in that age, surrounded by numerous proselytes, needed not the same sword unsheathed in its favor. These mistaken people signed a remonstrance against the violent proceedings, which were the order of that day. William Aspinwall and John Goggeshell, two of the Boston representatives, vrho signed the remonstrance, were sent home, and the town ordered to choose others in their room. Some of the remonstrants recanted, some were fined, some were disfranchised, and others, amonowhom was Captain Underbill, were banished." " When the sentence of banishment passed on Captain Underbill, he returned to Dover in New Hampshire, and was elected governor of the European settlers there; but, notwithstanding his great service