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."^

Upon the 22d of March, 1686-7, Nathaniel Underhill and Mary his wife, of the town and county of Westchester, conveyed all their land of every kind at Matinecock, Oyster Bay, " which is the land that my father, John Underhill, sen., lived upon, with forty acres in the woods, which I bought of the Indians," to John Underhill of Matinecock.^

The sons of Nathaniel were Thomas, John, Nathaniel Underhill, jun., from whom were descended the late Anthony L. Underhill of New York, and Lancaster Underhill of Eastchester, and Abraham, from whom come the Underhills of Yorktowu and Cortlandtown, &c.

Nathaniel Underhill, jr., died at Westchester in 1775. The following epitaph is inscribed on his head stone in the family cemetery.

Here lies the body of ;

Nathaniel Underhil, ,>- .

who was born August the Uth, 1690, and departed :' :'

this life November

the 27th, 1775, aged 85

years 3 months and 16 days.

N'athaniel, the eldest son of this individual, filled various public offices, and in 1775 was elected mayor of the borough of Westchester.