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Note: Samuel and his sister Elizabeth appear to have been left as orphans, and lived with John Meares.
Samuel Underwood owned 22 1/2 acres by Sept. 29, 1682. On 5 Oct 1683 Samuel received two separate grants of 22 1/2 acres each from Lord Baltimore, based on assignments from Henry Hanslap. These grants, known as 'Underwood's Addition' were laid out on the north side of the Severn River near the grants to his father called 'Middle Neck' and the 'Landing'. He also obtained a grant for another fifty acres in the general area known as 'Mutual Content'.
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 six years 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.
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, located on the township's lower west boundary. This was land he never moved to, but willed to his sons. He left 150 acres to his son Benjamin, and 50 acreas each to sons Alexander and Thomas. His sons sold the London Grove land on 27 May 1730. Alexander also owned another 159 acres just north of there.
Sources:
1) Gary Mullins, "The Ancestral Lineage of Ollie Cox Mullins", The Mountain Empire Genealogical Quarterly #7, Winter 1988
2) Underwood Annals, Vol. 1
3) Kellogg, Dale C., "Through the Keyhole"
4) Underwood, Lucien, "Underwood Families"
5) Lewis, Billie, Thomas Underwood
6) Harry, Robert Jesse, "Ancestors & Descendanst of Hugh Harry"
7) Boyd, John Wright, "Family History"
8) Doberteen to Dudick, "Underwood Family"
On file at Wilmington,DE, made in 1722
The last will of Samuel Underwood:
The last will and testimoney of SAMUELL UNDERWOOD, Senr, of the County of New Castell upon Delaware, he being at this presents in good sense and memory I doe by these presents revock all former wills and testimonies desiring that my body be desently intered and comit my soule unto God that gave 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 SAMUEL Underwood fifty ackers of land which is one the este of my tract which he now livith upon.
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 and improvement there upon it being the land and plantation I now live upon.
Item: I give unto my son BENGEMEN Underwood one Hundred and fifty ackers of land in Chester County and in the London Tract 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 themselves 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 old.
Item: I give unto my son 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 whereof and all the above I have set my hand and seall this eleventh day of June in the year 1722.
SAMUEL UNDERWOOD Signed sealled in the presents of us
Thomas Hollingsworth Christopher Wilson Walter Clark (The sons Benjamin, Alexander, and Thomas, conveyed the whole of their interest in the London Tract of 250 aacres, undivided, by deed May 27, 1730, to John Day.)
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