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THE TOVv-N OF WESTCHESTER. 405

About two miles north-west of the village of \'\''estchester is the resi- <icnce and estate of the late William A. Spencer, Esq., now owned by liis son Lorillard Spencer.

This property' originally belonged to the Underbill family, having been purchased by Nathaniel Underbill of John Turner in 1685. Nathaniel Underbill was the youngest son of the celebrated Captain John Underbill, commonly called Lord Underbill -- descended, as we shall have occasion to show presently, of an ancient and honorable family in Warwickshire, England.

" The name of Underbill," says Lower, " is local, from residence at the foot of, or under a hill. This hill was situated in Nether-Eatendon," a little below Halford on the eastern bank of the Stoure. The letters <ra, in our English, signifying water and dune or don, an ascending ground j for at the foot of an hill just near the river doth it stand."^

There can be no doubt that Capt. John Underbill was descended of the Underbills of Huningham in Warwickshire, a town four miles east of Kenilworth on the river Learne; for their Christian names and arms are the same.

The arms of the Huningharn Underbills were:, "argent a che\Ton gules between three trefoils sUpped vert," and the crest as usually given, " a hind lodged or on a mount vert ;" but an old seal of the Underbills in the possession of >Ir. Evelyn Ph. Shirley exhibits it as " a buck trippant"* The seal of Captain John Underbill attached to his name as a witness in a conveyance from the Indian propriet'-xa x.i . la Jnecock, Long Island, to Matthew Prior, dated Killingworth, 22d of June, 1664, are "arg, three trefoils, slipped vert," while the crest resembles that on the old seal before mentioned, viz : " a buck trippant " which clearly proves that the bearer belonged to the old or parent stock carrying the original coat plain without a difference. ^j