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- ! <http://www.ferristree.com/updates/john2.htm>NATHANIEL UNDERHILL bornAugust 31, 1723; married Ann Honeywell [dau of Israel & Dorothy] (1719-1782) who apparently died before Nathaniel as she was not mentioned inwill ? apparently no offspring; 1759he was one of the Judges of the Courtof the Common Pleas, for the County of Westchester and in 1775 was elected Mayor of the Borough of Westchester; a Loyalist during the Rev War and arrested as such. He made his will March 29, 1783, which was proven February 13, 1784; and is recorded in New York Published Wills, Vol. 12, pp. 182-83. No wife is named, but he married Ann, daughter of Israel H and Dorothy (Pell) Honeywell and she died September 4, 1782 aged63 years, leaving no issue. He divided his lands in Westchester and elsewhere equally between Thomas McLeroth and Anthony Lispenard Underhill, ?son of my brother Israel.? He also gave the said Thomas one-half of his household furniture, a negro woman and her child and one-half hissloop Tamer, but in consideration of these bequests, ?said Thomas must pay Nathaniel?s sisters, Helena Morgan and Mary Bayley, certain sums.? Tohis nephew, Anthony Lispenard Underhill, he bequeaths three negro men slaves, with all stock of cattle,horses, etc.,but he is to pay ?my brother Bartow? 500 pounds, and ?my nephew Nathaniel, son of John,? 200 pounds; a negro girl to Glorianna Underhill; to Sarah, wife of Samuel Embree, 100 pounds; to Mary, widow of John Bugbee, 50 pounds; to AmeliaWright, daughter of Obadiah Purdy, and to Charity Dally, daughter of JoshuaHunt, 25 pounds each; to John and Benjamin Underhill, sons of John, and to nephews, Obadiah and Joseph Purdy, 50 pounds each; negro slaves Abraham, Phyllys and Peggy, theirfreedom; codicil not dated, mentions Gilbert Drake, son of sister Elizabeth, and Anner, daughter of brother John, and requests that the slave Peggy, to whom he had willed her freedom, be sold instead for behaving ?contrary to the rule of a goodservant.?
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1723 - vers 1784 (60 ans)