Give me leave to observe two things from hence -- first, when the hour of death is not yet come, you see God useth weak means to keep His purpose inviolated ; secondly, let no man despise advice and counsel of his wife, thougJi she be a ivcinan." The book abounds in similar quaint passages. It is filled wath religious cant, for he was an arrant h}^ocrite. He appears to be equally fond of sinning and repenting. It is amusing to read in these pages of Winthrop, how ingeniously he managed through several years, to delude the Puritans by his professions of sanctity, while he led in their midst the most dissolute of lives."*
"In 1638 he was chosen Governor of Dover, New Hampshire, in place of Burdett. The same infirmity rendered his removal unavoidable, and he went to the Dutch; with them he succeeded," for governor Kieft gave him a command of one hundred and twenty men in their wars with the natives. In February, 16^4, the Dutch soldiers, under their valiant leader, encountered the Indians on what is now called Indian Hill, in the town of Bedford, leaving five hundred of their enemy dead on the field. He totally extinguished the Pequots. Besides this, Underbill is"said to have killed one hundred and fifty Indians on Long Island. He was a representative from Stamford to the General Court of Connecticut, in 1633.'' In 1644, he came uith the Rev. !Mr. Denton,
a KilUnsnvorth, near SaybrooS, is sniJ to have been named by rntlcrhill.