I represent Thomas Underwood. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British colonial period. I appear on a list of inhabitants of the town for February 1780, in which I am identified as a merchant. I appear frequently in the 1767-1768 ledger books of Pensacola merchants Richard and Caleb Carpenter as a member of a partership: “Hood & Underwood.” (The “Hood” is probably Walter Hood.) We purchased sugar, soap, corn, ham, blackeyed pease, and rum – a staple of the British diet at the time. In the list the Spanish made of householders still in Pensacola at the time of the capitulation in May, 1781, I was identified as a House Keeper. I imagine that was their term for “homeowner.”
Sources: 5, 7, 49