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State of Service: VT
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Abraham was the 1st of five children born to William and his wife, Mary (Bayley) Underhill.
He married on 26 December 1758 to Mercy Paddock (1734-1810) of Putnam County (then Dutchess County) Province of New York, by whom he had nine children:
Isaac (1759-1805).
James (1761-1813).
David (1765-1841).
Phebe (1767-1844).
William (1770-1834).
Abraham (1773-1838).
Mercy (1774-1794).
Nathan (1778-1851).
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, 23 May 1769, Abraham was chosen as one of the committees to lay out lands and highways. He was also one of the 1st settlers in South Dorset. It was here at his house/tavern that the 1st Dorset Town Meeting was held on 8 March 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 13 January 1770. This deed was later Confirmed by the Vermont General Assembly on 21 June 1781.
On 28 May 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. Between 7 to 14 November 1778, Captain Underhill commanded his Company, under Colonel Warren, in the 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia for eight 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 on 23 October 1779 upon the reorganization of the 2nd and 5th Regiments of Vermont Militia into 3rd 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 defense of the frontiers on 22 March 1780.
In the Spring of 1781, Captain Abraham 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 18 October to 8 November, 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 for five years, 1775-1779, one of two delegates to the 2nd Dorset Convention of delegates from the Towns of the New Hampshire Grants, 24 July 1776, he was Dorest's Representative to the Vermont General Assembly five 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.
Sources:
Frost, Josephine C., Underhill Genealogy Descendants of Captain John Underhill, Vol. II., 1932, pages 90-91, 128-132, 230-238.
Aldrich, Lewis Cass, History of Bennington County, Vermont with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, 1889, pages 87, 109-111, 412, 414, 426.
Nye, Mary Green, State Papers of Vermont - Vol. Six - Sequestration, Confiscation, and Sale of Estates, 1941, page 76.
Crockett, Walter H., State Papers of Vermont - Vol. 3 - Journals and Proceedings (Vol. I) of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, 1924, pages 254-255.
Hemenway, Abby Maria, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, embracing A History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, and Military, Vol. 1., 1867, pages 184-185.
Humphrey, Zephine and Lee, Elizabeth Sykes, The Story of Dorset, 1924, pages 39-40, 49, 59.
Goodrich, John E, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, Vermont. Rutland: The Tuttle Co., 1904, pages 98, 156-157, 426-417, 463, 787, 792.
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