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. By liis last will, bearing date the ISlh of September, 1671, Copt. John Underhill bequeathes "his whole estate in possession of his wife Elizabeth Underhill, during ye time of her widowhood ; but if she marry, then my brother John Bowne, Henry Townsend, Matthew Pryer, and my son John

a The " Algerine Captive," by Dr Updike Underhill, vol. i. 25, printed at Walpole, New Hampshire, 1797.

b Originally Kenilworth, from the place of the same name in Warwickshire, Eng. t Thompson's Hist of Long Island, vol. ii 358.

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Underliill, I empower hereby that they see to ye estate, that ye children be not wronged, nor turned off, without some proportionable allowance, as ye estate will afford ; and that my son Nai/iajiiel, remain with his mother untill twenty-one years, &c."^