Samuel UNDERWOOD, *

Abt 1656 - Aft 1722  (> 66 years)

• Name	Samuel UNDERWOOD  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Suffix	*
  Birth	Abt 1656	, Anne Arundel, MD
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Abt 1722
  Death	Aft 6 Nov 1722	, New Castle, DE
  Person ID	I12293	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas UNDERWOOD, *,   b. Bef 1628   d. 1683, Middleneck, Anne Arundel, MD (Age > 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth UNKNOWN   d. Bef 1674
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bef 1645
  Family ID	F5555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann WILCOX,   b. Abt 1670, , New Castle, DE, USA d. Aft 1722 (Age > 53 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1685
  Children	1. Thomas UNDERWOOD,   b. Abt 1690   d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Alexander UNDERWOOD, *,   b. Abt 1688, , Anne Arundel, MD d. 31 Oct 1767, Warrington Twp., York, PA (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Elizabeth UNDERWOOD,   b. Abt 1692   d. Bef 1766 (Age < 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Benjamin UNDERWOOD,   b. Abt 1686, Pencader Hund., New Castle, DE d. 1759, Pencader Hund., New Castle, DE (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Joseph UNDERWOOD,   b. Abt 1684, , New Castle, DE, USA d. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Samuel UNDERWOOD   d. 1746  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Samuel Underwood owned 22 1/2 acres by Sept. 29, 1682. He sold 50 acres of land, known as "Middle Neck" originally belonging to his father, Thomas Underwood on Mar. 24, 1683 to his brother-in-law. He purchased land from Samuel Matson sis later. He and wife, Mary, sold 300 acres to Nicholas Rogers in 1689. He had land surveyed and patented to him from John Grigg on the 12th mo 18 1692-3, that he had apparently owned since 1685. (C-636) This might have been in preparation for a move as he and his family left for New Castle, Delaware about 1693 onto 150 acres. He is on record as paying taxes in that year in New Castle. He bought 250 acres of land in what is now London Grove, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1722. This was land he never moved to, but willed to his sons. His will, made in 1722, is on file in Wilmington, Delaware. It is provided as follows in Lucien Marcus Underwood's "Notes from the Underwood Families of America" (C-2266) "The Last Will and Testimoney of Samuell Underwood, Sen of the County of New Castell upon Delaware he being at this presents in god sense and memory I doe by these presents revock all forme wills and testimonies whatsover desiring that my body be desently intered and commit my soule unto god that have it. Item I give to my well beloved wife the third of my personall estate and also my lodgin room at her command during her widowhood. Item I give unto my son Joseph Underwood the remaining part of my land which is a hundred and eleven ackers with all the plantation I now live upon. Item I give unto my son Bengemen Underwod one hundred and fifty ackers of land in Chester County and in the London track to be laid out at the north end of that tract containing two hundred and fifty ackers of land. Item I give unto my two sons Alexander Underwood and Thomas Underwood all the remaining part of the above tract they dividing it between then as they think good. Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Harres one two year owld hefer. Item I give unto my son Joseph Underwood one Iron gray horse about five years owld. Item I leave my two sons Joseph Underwood and Bengemen Underwood to be my sole Executors of this my last will and testimony either in land or equity and when all my just debts and legasies be paid the remaining part of my Esteat I leave unto them they to divide it equally between them in witnes eleventh day of June in the year 1722. Samuel Undewood Signe sealled in the presents of us Thomas Hollingsworth Christopher Wilson Walter Clark This Samuel's wife Mary was probably Mary Ann Wilcox as in CD-102. This Delaware Underwood family has left descendants in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and throughout the west.

  
  

• Sources

  [S251] CD 102 (Automated Archives). [S2341] Family History. [S2360] Shepard W. Burnett to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Nov. 24, 1985 at 43 Mann Terrace,Florence, MA 01060 Info. from The Underwood Families of America, Vol. 2, (C-260) 1985. [S202] Robert Jesse Harry, The Ancestors and Descendants of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton. [S279] Robert J. Harry, Harry Herald Vol. 3, #12 June, 1987. [S550] Lucien Underwood, Comp, The Underwood Families of America (New Era Printing Company, c1913). [S2345] Underwood Annals Vol. 1. [S2346] Dale C. Kellogg, Through the Keyhole p. 18. [S203] Billie Redding Lewis, Thomas Underwood 1650 Immigrant, His Descendants and their Families unpublished, 1993 (copy of the book in possession of Linda Coate Dudick). [S2347] Elmer R. Underwood, David Underwood, 1815-1857, His Antecedents and Descendants (A Private Printing, c1974).