Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Alexander UNDERWOOD
"QUAKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Ministers and Elders, and other
concerned
members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia" [1682-1800] Willard Heiss
Edited (Indianapolis: 1972) Page 252
"ALEXANDER UNDERWOOD. Alexander Underwood was born in the province
of Maryland,in the year 1688. His parents, who were not members of the
religious Society of Friends, removed when he was young, and settled
in New Castle county on the Delaware. Here he continued to reside
until he had reached the thirty-fourth year of his age, when he married
and removed to Londongrove Township, Chester County. Here he became
acquainted with Friends, and in a few years afterwards he became
convinced of the Truth of the principles professed them, and was
received into membership with them. By faithfulness to that which had
led him into the way of Truth, he grew in religious experience, and
became a valuable member of the church militant. In a very few years
he was appointed to the station of elder, in which he conducted
himself with reputation.
About the year 1743, he believed it right to remove to Warrington,
where he resided during the rest of his life. In a year or two
thereafter, a gift in the ministry of the gospel was committed to
him, in which he endeavored to be faithful. Beside his earnest
labors amongst neighboring meetings, he twice visited meeting to
the south afar as North Carolina, and brought back "comfortable
accounts from Friends there of his labor of love amongst them."
He was a good example of humble waiting in religious meetings, and
by dwelling near the Fountain of Life, he was enable, when called
into service by his divine Master, "to minister suitable to the
situation of the church, the comfort of the true mourners in Zion,
and the encouragement of the faithful."
He was diligent, as the way was inwardly opened therefor, in
visiting meetings around, and was ever careful to maintain the
good order of the church, by having the unity of his Friends with
his prospects. Towards the close of his life, his strength of body
failed much, yet he continued of a clear mind, and sound and lively
in the ministry; visiting even in his weakness some of the neigh-
Boring meetings, and the families of Friends. In these exercises,
his labor of love was truly comfortable to the living. During his
last illness, he was resigned and cheerful. At one time he said
"he had the company of his good Master to comfort him in his
affliction." On another occasion he remarked, "he could say with
the Psalmist, that the good Hand that was with him in his younger
years, had not forsaken him now in his old age." At different times
he signified to those who visited him, "that he still felt the
Comforter with him," and said his day's work was done." A short
time before his close, "he sane praises and hallelujahs to his great
Lord and Master, " and then prayed earnestly for the little handful.
He took an affectionate leave of those present, and in a sweet frame
of mind, uttering praises until his voice was lost, he quietly and
joyfully departed Tenth month 31st, 1767. [Volume 33 Page 349]
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