Tributes and Memorials
- The Underhill Burying Ground is located on land granted to Captain John Underhill in 1667. The cemetery has been in continuous use since Underhill's burial in 1672.
- "John Underhill" is the title of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, published in Hazel Blossoms in 1875.
- An obelisk memorial honoring Underhill was dedicated at the Captain John Underhill gravesite in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
- A New York State marker notes the site of Council Rock - "Here George Fox, 1672, met with Wrights, Underhill and Feeke (sp.) at Quaker gathering"
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