Capt. Abraham Underhill

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Abraham was the 1st of 5 children (4 sons and 1 daughter) born of William Underhill (1707-1774) and his wife Mary Bayley (d. 1791). Abraham siblings were: Freelove (1733-1774), Augustine (1736-1819), John Calvin (1738-1808), and William (1741-1813).

Abraham married, December 26, 1758, Mercy Mary) Paddock (1734-1810) of Putnam County (then Dutchess County) Province of New York by whom he had 9 children (7 sons and 2 daughters): Isaac (1759-1805), James (1761-1813), David (1765-1841), Phebe (1767-1844), William (1770-1834), Abraham (1773-1838), Mercy (1774-1794), Nathan (1778-1851), and Reuben (d. young).

In 1768, Abraham was one of the 1st six settlers of Dorset on the New Hampshire Grants (now in Bennington County, Vermont). He came from New York. At the 1st proprietor's meeting of record, May 23, 1769, Abraham was chosen one of a committee to lay out lands and highways. He was also one of the 1st settlers in South Dorest. It was here at his house/tavern that the 1st, Dorset Town Meeting was held on March 8, 1774.

Abraham purchased all the undivided land belonging to the Original Right No. 47 in the Township of Dorset of Asa Alger by an executed deed dated January 13, 1770. This deed was later Confirmed by the Vermont General Assembly on June 21, 1781.

On May 28, 1778, the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont organized the 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia and selected Gideon Warren Colonel and Abraham Underhill, Captain; Richard Dunning, Lieutenant; and Ephraim Reynolds, Ensign of the Regiment's 2nd (Dorset) Company. On November 7-14, 1778, Captain Underhill commanded his Company, under Colonel Warren in the 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia for 8 days when they were called out by order of the Vermont Governor and Council to defend the frontiers of the State.

The 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia was established October 23, 1779 upon the reorganization of the 2nd and 5th Regiments of Vermont Militia into 3 Regiments. The Dorset Company was then reassigned from the 5th Regiment to the 6th Regiment. Captain Abr. Underhill was in command of his Company in Colonel Ira Allen's 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia, briefly (one day) when they did service in defence of the frontiers the 22nd March, 1780.

In the Spring of 1781, Captain Abr. Underhill commanded his Company in Colonel Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia and served 20 days when they were called for service in defense of the Frontiers of the State of Vermont in an Alarm. Later in the same year, from October 18th to November 8th, a part of Captain Abraham Underhill's Company was ordered into service to again defend the frontiers of the State. Captain Underhill did not command this Detachment, it was led by the Company's Lieutenant Isaac Farwell.

Abraham was a Dorset Selectman 5 years, 1775-1779, one of two delegates to the 2nd Dorset Convention of delegates from the Towns of the New Hampshire Grants, July 24, 1776, he was Dorest's Representative to the Vermont General Assembly 5 years, 1778-1781 and 1784, and he was selected a member of the Colonial Constitutional Convention of 1787 preparatory for Vermont's admission to statehood, 1791.

References:

(1) "Underhill Genealogy Descendants of Capt. John Underhill" Vol. II., by Josephine C. Frost, 1932, pages 90-91, 128-132 and 230-238

(2) "History of Bennington County, Vt. with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers" by Lewis Cass Aldrich, 1889, pages 87, 109-111, 412, 414 and 426

(3) "State Papers of Vermont - Volume Six - Sequestration, Confiscation and Sale of Estates" Edited by Mary Green Nye, 1941, page 76

(4) "State Papers of Vermont - Volume 3 - Journals and Proceedings (Vol. I) of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont" edited by Walter H. Crockett, 1924, pages 254 and 255

(5) "The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, embracing A History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military" Vol. 1., by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1867, pages 184 and 185

(6) "The Story of Dorset" by Zephine Humphrey and Elizabeth Sykes Lee, 1924, pages 39-40, 49 and 59

(6) "The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 98, 156-157, 426-417, 463, 787 and 792