Underwood Families Of Caledonia, Ohio consists of many segments
that are combined to form synergies that enhance the book. The
Underwood account is part family history that includes pertinent
biographical data, part genealogy that traces descendants, and part
local history that provides information about the development of
Caledonia and Ohio. It explores the ancestry and family histories
of a specific group of people who migrated westward to a central
Ohio hamlet in the eighteenth century and later. Individuals with
an Underwood surname first appeared in New England in 1637 after
they had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Old England. Around
the same time, there were other Underwood migrations to the
Delaware Bay area, and of principal interest is one group we call
the Delaware Family-Caledonia Branch. This family group ultimately
spread widely through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the West. We begin
this study with Samuel Underwood who appeared in the Delaware Bay
area in the mid-seventeenth century. He is the seminal figure in
our examination because beginning with him we have been able to
establish a direct line of descendants. This genealogical journey
is documented through a total of eight men; we conclude with Miller
Harland Underwood (1865-1937) who spent his entire life in or near
Caledonia, Ohio. We follow these people as they settle in
Pennsylvania before moving westward in their Conestoga wagons to
become early pioneers in the Ohio Country. Here they face the
perils of disease and hostile Indians and overcome innumerable
hardships while migrating into central Ohio. Some of them settle in
an area that eventually becomes Caledonia, Ohio. While we focus
upon the men composing the direct line, we follow their offspring
as well as they spread west to the Pacific Ocean. To accomplish
this task, we have organized this book into three parts. The first
section consists of pertinent historical data that makes the
movement of Underwood families into Ohio more meaningful and places
these events within the context of the times. The second portion
presents genealogical data, intermixed with family history, in a
readable narrative that supports the line of succession of the
"Underwood eight" and follows many of their offspring. The last
part is an appendix that is a full descendant-ordered National
Genealogical Society (NGS) report covering up to 13 generations. It
documents more than 2700 individuals, in excess of 800 marriages,
and over 600 surnames. Also included is an index of these
individuals. We expect our approach to Ohio history and Underwood
genealogy will be useful to others as they consider their past and
its import for their future. In any event, we trust the reader will
find the journey offered by this book to be enjoyable, instructive,
and rewarding. Book Excerpt The earliest immigrants to America were
from England, but between 1749-1750 more than 30,000 Germans
arrived in Pennsylvania. The long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean
took two or three months. Gottlieb Mittelberger was a schoolteacher
from Germany who, along with 500 of his fellow countrymen, sailed
across the Atlantic aboard the Osgood and arrived in Philadelphia
in late 1750. He writes of the perils of emigrating from Germany:
The people are packed densely, like herrings so to say, in the
large sea-vessels. One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet
width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries
four to six hundred souls . . . But during the voyage there is on
board these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting,
many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat,
constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth rot, and the like, all
of which come from old and sharply salted food and meat, also from
very bad and foul water, so that many die miserably . . . That most
of the people get sick is not surprising because . . . meals can
hardly be eaten, on account of being so unclean. The water which is
served out of th
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