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,'*''

u Camden'3 Brlttama.

h Lcycoster Correspnndenc-o, Camdeu Soc. Eaitod Iiy John l!tnci\ F S. A., >lDOi~CXI.IV, letter xvl pp. S4, 35. The letter convevecl by UmleriitU was prot>al)ly i ti;U of trii^ Karl 'o • W;il>in!.'ham. flated 2r>ttiof Dec., i??.:;, "p. '20, of ahovt-, siniioK {(irtti the g^.-^titui]e ut th.- pt'oplo of the Low Countrk'S to <^Ufeii Elizabeth for her ussistauce io.

*■ " Al-erinc Captive," by D. Vp.iiKe VnUtrhll, vol. 1, 23, priaied at Walpole, .Vow Ilani:)- ehire, iii iTai. e

4IO HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF ^VESTCHESTER.

and one of the earliest officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company." "He was sworn freeman, iSth of JSIay, 1630. In 1637, his great friend Sir Harry Vane, sent him as commander of the colony troops, to Saybrook,'* Connecticut." The same year he was "disfranchised, and eventually banished from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts-- his ideas of religious toleration being more liberal than those around him." "In 163S, he returned to England, but was banished thence for certain religious and moral delinquences. WTiile there he published a work entitled " iN'evves from America, or a New and Exper. imental Discoverie of New England ; containing a true relation of their warlike proceedings there, two years last past, with a figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado. By Capt. John' Underbill, a commander in the warres there." The book gives a very good account of the Pequot war, m which he was a conspicious actor.