When Mary Underwood was born on 16 June 1673, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Underwood, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 22. She married John Phipps Jr. about 1690, in Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1673. She died on 14 February 1754, in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 80.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived below a wood on a hillside, from Middle English under + wude, wode ‘wood’, or a habitational name for someone from any place so named.
History: Joseph Underwood emigrated from England to Watertown, MA, in 1637. William Underwood came from England to Concord, MA, before 1640, later settling in Chelmsford, MA. In VA, the name was established by Thomas William Underwood, who came from Norfolk, England, in 1675.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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