 1590 - 1662 (72 years)
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| Name |
William PYNCHON |
| Prefix |
Hon. Col. |
| Born |
11 Oct 1590 |
Springfield, Essex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
29 Oct 1662 |
Wraysbury, Buckingham, England |
| Person ID |
I5482 |
adkinshorton |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2013 |
| Father |
John PYNCHON, b. 1654, Writtle, Essex, England , d. 12 Sep 1610, Springfield, Essex, England |
| Mother |
Frances BRETT, b. Between 1568 and 1570, Terling, Essex, England , d. 1675/76 (Age ~ 108 years) |
| Married |
3 Oct 1588 |
Springfield, Essex, England |
| Family ID |
F25098 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Anne Agnes ANDREW, b. 1595, Triwell, Northampton, England , d. 30 Aug 1630, Roxbury, Norfolk Co, MA (Age 35 years) |
| Married |
1618 |
Springfield, Essex, England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anne PYNCHON, b. 1620, Dorchester, Dorset, England , d. USA |
| | 2. Mary PYNCHON, b. 1621, Springfield, Essex, England , d. 25 Oct 1657, Springfield, Hampden Co, MA (Age 36 years) |
| | 3. Margaret PYNCHON, b. 1624, Dorchester, Dorset, England |
| + | 4. Col. John PYNCHON, b. 1625, England , d. 17 Jan 1702 (Age 77 years) |
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| Family ID |
F25097 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Histories |
 | The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William Pynchon, London 1650 (14MB PDF)
Reproduction 1931, Harry A. Wright, Springfield, Massachusetts
www.archive.org |
 | Clarke's Kindred Genealogies - Pynchon Genealogy
Excerpt: pages 137-141, descendants of William Pynchon, son of John Pynchon of Springfield, Essex, England. William was born and died in England, but was a significant force in New England during his 22-year stay in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
www.archive.org |
 | Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green 1888 (46MB PDF)
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 | How William Pynchon Blazed the Bay Path
Excerpt: Chapter 6, pp.52-58, from "Stories of the Old Bay State"
by Elbridge S. Brooks, 1899 |
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| Notes |
- William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 - October 29, 1662) was a colonial assistant treasurer and original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He led the 1635 settlement of Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, which was named after his home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England.
Pynchon was a theologian; he expressed his views in The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption (1650). Officials of the colony ordered this book burned and demanded that he retract its argument, which was contrary to the colony's official Calvinism. Instead of retracting, he returned to England in 1652, where he remained for the rest of his life. Pynchon built a trading post at Enfield Falls, which would become Springfield, Massachusetts from which he exported between 4,000 to 6,000 beaver pelts a year between 1636 and 1652. The profits enabled him to retire to England as a wealthy man.
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