The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
He accompanied that gallant nobleman in his successful attack upon Cadiz, and shared his ill fortune in his fruitless' expedition against Tyrme, the rebel chief of the revolted clans of Ireland; and, returning with the Earl into England, by his attachment to that imprudent nobleman, sailing into the streets of London in the petty insurrection, which cost Essex his head, he was obliged to seek safety in Holland until the accession of King James, in 1603, when he applied for pardon and leave to return to his native country ; but no interest of friends, v/e are assured, could procure it. When the Re\'. Mr. Robinson, with a number of other separatists, fled from England to LloUand, in 1603, he dwelt and communed -vnth them a number of years. The date of his death is unknOT\m. His son, the redoubtable Capt. John Underbill v/as born circ, 1600, and had early imbibed an ardent love of liberty, civic and religious, by his service as a soldier under the illustrious Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in the Low Countries. " He vras strongly solicited to go with Governor Carver, Elder William Brewster and other worthies, part of the Rev. John Robinson's church, to the settlement of Plj-mouth, and had partly engaged with them as their chief military officer ; but. Capt. Miles Standish, his brave fellow-soldier in the Lo'w Countries, undertaking the business, in 1620, he declined. How he joined Governor Winthrop, does not appear ; but he came over to New England with him "as captain of any militia force that might be employed or instituted, as he had served under the great Dutch Prince in the war of the Netherlands,*'in 1630; and soon after we find him disciplining the Boston militia, where he was held in such high distinction that he was appointed one of the first deputies from Boston to the General Court,'*''