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

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to the people of Massachusetts, in the Peqiiod wars, his persecutors in Boston would not allow him to die in peace. First, by writing injurious letters to those he governed ; by threats of their power; and lastly, by determining that Dover was witliin the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, they forced him to flee to Albany, then possessed by the Dutch, under the name of Amboyna.

The Dutch were highly pleased with the captain, and after Dutchifying his name into Captain Hans van Vanderhill, they gave him a command of one hundred and twenty men, in their wars with the natives. It is said that he killed one hundred and fifty Indians on Loufj Island, and upwards of three hundred on the main. The laurels of the famous Colonel Church wither in comparison."!^ "At the period of his military employment (says Mr. Thompson,) he lived at Stamford, Connecticut, was a delegate from that town to the general court at New Haven in 1643, and was appointed an assistant justice. In 1644 he came with the Rev. Mr. Denton and others of his church, to Long Island, and soon after became a resident of Flushing, where he evinced the same restless temper as formerly, and was anxious for a military employment." " He was afterward settled in Oyster Bay, for in 1665 he was a delegate from that town to the meeting at Hampstead, by order of Governor Nicoll, and was by him made high sheriff of the North Riding on Long Island." "In 1667, the Matinecock Indians conveyed to him a large tract of their lands, a part of which, called Killingworlh,b remained in his family for nearly two hundred years."^ Captain John Undcrhill, at an advanced age, died in Killingworth, leaving several sons ; the youngest of whom, Nathaniel, (before mentioned,) removed to Westchester, in 1685.