Jael UNDERWOOD

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Jael married Robert POLLARD on 10 Jul 1772 in , Culpepper, Va.. Robert (son of Richard POLLARD and Elizabeth COLEMAN) was born on 3 Jul 1756 in Richmond, Virginia; died on 10 Oct 1842 in Henrico, Virginia; was buried in Oct 1842 in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Betsy Coleman POLLARD was born on 3 Apr 1775 in Richmond, Virginia; died on 6 Nov 1776.
2. Ellen Hackley POLLARD was born on 7 Dec 1776 in Culpeper, Virginia; died on 15 Jan 1855 in Marietta City, Washington, Ohio; was buried in Jan 1855 in Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio.
3. Elizabeth Coleman POLLARD was born on 22 Aug 1779 in Culpeper, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1864 in Richmond, Virginia; was buried on 21 Jun 1864 in Richmond, Virginia.
4. Benjamin POLLARD was born in Mar 1781 in Richmond, Virginia; died on 22 May 1783.

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WILLIAM UNDERWOOD (1720-1773) and ELEANOR (ELLEN) HACKLEY. William was a lawyer and apparently the 5th WILLIAM in a direct line of WILLIAM UNDERWOODs who---going backwards in time---lived in Fauquier Co., Prince William Co., King George Co., Westmoreland Co., Richmond Co., and Lancaster Co. in Virginia's "Northern Neck" between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. This William left a will naming only a daughter Jaely Underwood, but it is believed he bestowed legacies upon other children before he made his will; among whom was believed to be son John Underwood and son Annet Underwood. WILLIAM UNDERWOOD V, Esq., was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD IV and JAEL SHIPPE (related to Pres. Harry S. Truman and William Barrett Travis of the Alamo, and also to the Hackley family just mentioned). William IV was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD III and JOAN UNDERWOOD---she was apparently an Underwood, but unrelated to our main line [one researcher suggested her maiden name may have been HURLEY]. "Major William Underwood" is sometimes found in records. William III was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD II ("Colonel") and MARY MOSELEY. Col. William II was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD I ("Captain") and MARGARET DEW / DEWE. William was a tobacco merchant and planter, but Margaret's identity regarding her origins and surname has been elusive until recently. There has long been the idea that this Margaret was a ROBERTS or a MASON. This is mainly due to the fact that a marriage record exists for the marriage to Margaret ROBERTS, pairing a couple in the right period with the right first names. The MASON marriage was proffered as an alternate possibility, due to the fact that later UNDERWOOD family documents and even business entanglements include at least one member of the MASON family (one Josiah MASON) in such as way as to imply a familial relationship; hence, an assumption that that this could be the point of connection. (It has later been seen that the Josiah MASON in question was an in-law, rather than a true cousin.)

When more data is uncovered in England, we see more clearly that the DEWE family documents and wills from that period indicate that both Margaret and her sister Elizabeth married UNDERWOOD men, and that Margaret's husband was William, and that they and their young family moved from London to Isle of Wight County Virginia, via Bermuda, in the 1630's---in fact probably before 1632. The family connections of neighbors, friends and other associates and relatives all fit this scenario in London, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Isle of Wight County Virginia, as does later connections in Virginia's Northern Neck. Margaret's DEW / DEWE family connections include her in-laws the BENNETT family, the same as that of one of the Colonial Governors of Virginia. Captain WILLIAM and MARGARET UNDERWOOD were the parents of at least 1 son and upwards of 5 daughters. This ordinary couple were the direct ancestors of U.S. Presidents JAMES MADISON and THEODORE ROOSEVELT, First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, General GEORGE SMITH PATTON, JR., and General-of-the-Army GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL.

Prior to our line settling in eastern Culpeper County and southern Fauquier County in the early-to-mid 1700's, the main family properties were:
1) "Claymont": Held by the family since its patent by WILLIAM UNDERWOOD II in 1658, it was about 10,000 acres in its original total, being held until about 1720. The old manor house is gone, but its location can be traced by satellite image. Claymont is in modern Westmoreland Co., at its far N/W border with King George Co., where is now the Ingleside Winery and the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The old house site is just about 5 miles due West of GEORGE WASHINGTON's birthplace and 3 miles S/W of JAMES MONROE's birthplace.
2) Land in Richmond County is the first land that WILLIAM UNDERWOOD II patented on Virginia's Northern Neck in about 1650. Between Richmond County Courthouse at Warsaw and the Tappahannock Bridge which crosses over to Essex County, there is a magnificent 1730's plantation house called "Sabine Hall" built by Landon CARTER at the edge of UNDERWOOD's original land.
3) Land in Isle of Wight Co., VA, on the James River, was acquired by WILLIAM UNDERWOOD I and settled in the 1630's.

The 1st WILLIAM UNDERWOOD in America---our immigrant ancestor---has been difficult to distinguish from other William UNDERWOODs in the same time period in England and Virginia. It would seem, however, from Wills and Probates in England, and from genealogies on file in the College of Arms in London and other public records, that our WILLIAM UNDERWOOD I was apparently the 2nd son of:

EDMUND UNDERWOOD (Sr.) (1576-1631) and ROSE FAIRCLOUGH (1580-1656). Edmund was a Grocer in London and in full business partnership with his younger brother ROBERT UNDERWOOD (1580-1638) who married Rose's younger sister DOROTHY FAIRCLOUGH (1584-1531). They owned "The Woolsack" in Bucklersbury [a lane in the geographic center of the old City of London], which was a grocery, apothecary, warehouse, and dual dwelling house which consisted of two huge houses that adjoined, with business and warehousing on the street level, more warehousing in the multiple cellar levels below, and several stories high of dwelling space in the upper floors. Both Underwood brothers had huge families, as was common, and technically each family had their own house. On the business side, the apothecary area also served as a sort of small medicinal clinic, and temporary overnight boarders with medical needs were apparently common in the Underwood houses.

ROSE & DOROTHY FAIRCLOUGH were the daughters of JOHN FAIRCLOUGH and ANNE SPENCER of the very famous SPENCER family (ancestors of Winston CHURCHILL, Princess Diana, and several famous Americans). The FAIRCLOUGH family (also seen as FAIRCLOTH, and countless other odd spellings) had a manor house at Fairclough Hall a mile or so S/E of Weston, Hertfordshire, and also had a 2nd home in Goldington, just across the county line into Bedfordshire. They originally came from Lancashire sometime before c.1430.

EDMUND & ROBERT were born at their ancestral home in Weston, Hertfordshire, about 40 miles North of London, where, according to a 1634 pedigree, the family had resided since about the early 1300's. They were sons of:

GEORGE UNDERWOOD (Sr.) (1541-1597) and ALICE PAPWORTH (c.1543-after 1600; dau. of William PAPWORTH of Hitchin). George was the son of

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD, Constable of Weston (c.1502-1560) and JOHANNA CLARKE (c.1515-aft.1572; dau. of John CLARKE of Stevenage, and sister of the earlier Sir Edward CLARKE of Berkshire). William was the son of:

THOMAS UNDERWOOD (c.1475-1561) and ISABELLA _______. Thomas and his son William and HIS son George all had many children, including many sons with the same names from one generation to the next. Lots of these men found work in London and nearby areas, and leads to the tangle of duplicate names among 1st- and 2nd-cousins who very obviously are related to one another, but often it is difficult to say from which father and grandfather they descend. Other contemporary documents exist, but are expensive to have researched, as it must be done by a herald of the College of Arms or some wealthy and hopefully knowledgeable family member who could travel to London and Hertfordshire to do the research in person. Thomas was apparently the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD, JR. (c.1445-c.1500) and ALICE ______. William Jr. was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD, SR. (c.1420-_____) and JOAN _______. William Sr. was the son of:

JOHN UNDERWOOD (c.1396-_____), who was the son of:

WILLIAM UNDERWOOD (Sr.) (c.1360-aft.1428), beyond which it is difficult to tell from the local land records. These manorial court records (of Weston Manor, compiled by the PRYOR family a century ago and donated to the Hertford County records office) helped with these earliest 4 generations of UNDERWOOD names and dates.

The actual extended pedigrees apparently exist in the College of Arms in London, which would take this line back at least 2 more generations and maybe more. It is supposed that most of the older Underwood families in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Shropshire, and so forth, are all descended from the main trunk of the family which would probably prove to be centered around Leicestershire in the 1200's and Nottinghamshire from the 1100's on back. An Underwood family in Roxburghshire on the Scottish border appears to also have origins in the early 1600's much further to the south, possibly even to our London family.

The families in Weston Hertfordshire, and those in Bedfordshire and possibly Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire are believed to all be linked from the late 1200's and early 1300's onward. There is a branch in Dorchester Dorsetshire which seems to be fairly closely connected to our Hertfordshire and London family. Our London family also owned property in Shorne and Greenwich parishes in County Kent (London's S/E suburbs and connected routes to the S/E); as well as property in the South Riding portion of County York in northern England. There is also a branch in Cambridgeshire/Huntingdonshire and another in Northamptonshire which seem to be part of the Hertfordshire branch.

The UNDERWOOD family in Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean is proven to be of our London family origin, and actually may account for some of the seemingly unconnected UNDERWOODS (at least one Thomas U. for example) that show up in Virginia in the latter 1600's and early 1700's. Lastly, it is proved that during the 1640's and 1650's, our UNDERWOOD family in London purchased land in County Tipperary in Ireland, and there may have been some family members actually move there and settle.

The UNDERWOODS that settled in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania seem to mostly come from our London family. The New England branches of the family have multiple origins

William married Eleanor HACKLEY about 1759 in King George, Virginia, British Colonial America. Eleanor (daughter of James HACKLEY and Elizabeth SHIPPEY) was born in 1718 in King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1791 in Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: ; "Ellen"

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Born about 1718 and died after 1791, Ellen was the daughter of James HACKLEY (c.1691-1748) and Elizabeth SHIPPE (1694-1756).

Ellen was married and widowed 3 times, bearing at least 6 to 10 children total:

Ellen's marriages and children:

m:1) Robert DONIPHAN, in c.1733-King George Co., VA. Robert was b: c.1703-St.Mary's Parish, Richmond Co., VA; d: bef. 2 Mar 1743-King George Co., VA; son of Alexander DONIPHAN (c.1653-1717) and Margaret MOTT (c.1666-____, eldest dau. of George MOTT & Elizabeth PIGG). Ellen & Robert DONIPHAN had:
1) Robert DONIPHAN, Jr.

m:2) Capt. Thomas STUBBLEFIELD, on 1 May 1747-King George Co., VA. Robert was b: c.1705 (some say definitively 1712)-Gloucester Co., VA; d: bef. 16 Feb 1758 [Probate]-St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper Co., VA; son of George & Ann (______) STUBBLEFIELD, grandson of Symon STUBBLEFIELD of Castle Camps, Cambs., ENG. Ellen & Thomas STUBBLEFIELD had:
2) Maj. George STUBBLEFIELD, of the 5th Virginia Regt., Amer. Revolutionary War.
3) Anne STUBBLEFIELD.
4) James STUBBLEFIELD.
5?) Elizabeth STUBBLEFIELD.
6?) Mary STUBBLEFIELD.
7) Frances "Fanny" STUBBLEFIELD.

m:3) William UNDERWOOD (V), Esq., of the Virginia Bar. Ellen & William had Jaely, and probably also had John and Annet, though neither are mentioned in William's 1773 Will:
8) Jaely UNDERWOOD.
9) John UNDERWOOD.
10) Annet UNDERWOOD (son).

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William married Jael SHIPPEY on 16 Dec 1714 in Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America. Jael (daughter of Richard SHIPPEY and Eleanor Ellen MOTT) was born in 1692 in Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1761 in Rollins Fork, King George County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jael Shippe Underwood
BIRTH1692
Richmond County, Virginia, USA
DEATH1761 (aged 68? 69)
Rollins Fork, King George County, Virginia, USA
BURIALNon-Cemetery Burial
MEMORIAL ID175712039 ? View Source

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Jael SHIPPE (SHIPP / SHIPPE / SHIPPEY / SHIPPY) was born c.1692 in Richmond Co., VA, and died in c. 1761 in Brunswick Parish, King George Co., VA. But the county and parish lines in this part of the Northern Neck have changed several times, so it is unclear where exactly her birth and death locations would be on a modern map.

Jael was the daughter of Richard SHIPPE and Ellenor MOTT.

Jael SHIPPE married William UNDERWOOD on 16 Dec 1714, according to a contemporary family Bible record. (Since Jael could not write, maybe most of the entries were made by William himself?) This marriage ceremony would have likely been performed in the bounds of Richmond County at that time.

According to the same Bible record, William and Jael UNDERWOOD had the following children, with their birthdates:
1) Sarah UNDERWOOD, b: 6 Mar 1716.
2) Thomas UNDERWOOD, b: 12 Nov 1717.
3) William UNDERWOOD, b: 25 Jul 1720.
4) Ellen UNDERWOOD, b: 9 Mar 1723.
5) Lott UNDERWOOD, b: 25 Jun 1724.
6) Zachariah UNDERWOOD, b: 5 May 1726.

William UNDERWOOD died on 21 Feb 1726 (1725/26), over two months before the birth of his youngest son. This death date is also recorded in the same family Bible record. Although the cause of his death is unknown, he describes himself as "very sick and weak" in his Last Will, made six days before he died, on 15 Feb 1726 (1725/26). It was probated on 2 Sep 1726, in King George Co., VA; the several month's interval was possibly due to a couple of clauses in the Will that may have had to be worked out before Probate.

After only 11 years of marriage, 34-year-old Jael was a widow with five young children between the ages of 1 and 9, with their 6th child on the way. She would be raising them by herself, probably with the help of her own mother Ellenor, who was widowed less than two years earlier.

Jael married secondly to Samuel REED (REEDS / REID / REIDS) (c.1690-1750), and they resided in the bounds of Brunswick Parish in King George County during the 1730's-40's.

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1743-1752, King George Co., VA, Deed Book 3 (Antient Press), pp 130-131:

To all Christian People: We SAMUEL REIDS & JAEL his Wife, Brunswick Parish King George County,:n consideration love towards WILLIAM UNDERWOOD Son of said Jael by WILLIAM UNDERWOOD late of said County former Husband of said Jael ... have granted ... 100 acres in King George County bounded ... corner tree of tract belonging to Colo. JOHN TAYLOE now in occupation of Mr. JOHN GILBERT ... corner of Capt. JOHN TALLIAFERRO ... Mr. JAMES HACKLEY ... River bank the said land being the sole property of the said Jael by Inheritance from her Mother ELLENOR SHIPPEY, Daughter & Coheir to Mr. GEORGE MOTT ... the said Samuel Reids & Jael only reserving to themselves the use of the land during their natural lives: 7th March 1745.

Presence: Wm. Longmire, Samuel Reeds
Isaac Arnold, Josa. Lampton, Jael x Reeds

At a court held 7th March 1745... Deed of Gift recorded.
Know all men .. I William Underwood .. am bound unto Samuel Reeds & Jael his wife .. in sum of Five hundred pounds current money of Virginia .. 7th March 1745/6. Condition .. if suffer unmolested the above named Samuel Reeds

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1735-1752, King George Co., VA, Deed Book, pp 281-284:

Indenture made 27th/28th February 1748 between SAMUEL REIDS & JAEL his Wife of Brunswick Parish King George County of one part & GEORGE MORTON of same by deeds of lease & release for sum Twenty pounds Sterling sold 15 acres lying on the Little Falls Run binds as follows: On land of JAMES HACKLEY where PHILLIP ROBERTSON now lives and on the land of Fitzhugh & Burwell the same land being the sale property of said Jael Reid by the Inheritance of her Mother ELLINOR SHIPPY Daughter & Coheir to GEORGE MOTT.

Presence: Andr. Doniphan, Samuel Reids
Josiah Farguson, Wlm.Underwood, Jael x Reeds

At a court held 3rd March 1748/9 deeds of lease & release, the said
Jael being Privily examined acknowledged her free consent: recorded.

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Spouse
William Underwood
1677? 1726

Children
William Underwood
1720? 1773

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• Will: 12 Mar 1698, Essex, Virginia
• Probate of Will: 6 May 1748, King George, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; Will presented to King George Court

James married Elizabeth SHIPPEY in 1711 in Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard SHIPPEY and Eleanor Ellen MOTT) was born in 1694 in King George, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; was christened in 1694; died on 5 Aug 1756 in King George, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Mary BUTLER. Mary was born in 1650 in Somerset, England; died in 1682 in Rappahannock, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard married Eleanor Ellen MOTT in 1691 in Rappahannock, Virginia, British America. Eleanor (daughter of George MOTT and Elizabeth PIGG) was born about 1670 in Rappahannock, Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 6 Mar 1741 in King George, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 2 May 1726, ... sick and weak of body but perfect... mind... to three daughters Jael SHIPPEY, Mary SHIPPEY and Elizabeth SHIPPEY ... land ... equal parts... Jael four acres allowed her deducted out of other two due to marshy sunken ground...Jael upper part, Elizabeth; King George County, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America
• Probate of Will: 6 Mar 1740, LW&T of Ellen SHIPPEY dec'd. presented into court by James HACKLEY her Exec... proved by ye oaths of Henry McKIE and Catlett MAN...; King George County, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America

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John married Elizabeth LAMBERT. Elizabeth was born in 1661 in Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in in Rappahannock, Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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