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| 2. | Jane EMPSON  (1.Richard1) was born in 1542 in Writtle, Essex, England; died on 10 Nov 1587. Jane married John PYNCHON. John (son of William Pynchon and Elizabeth Stevens) was born in 1534 in Writtle, Essex, England; died on 29 Nov 1573 in Springfield, Hampden, England. [Group Sheet]
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- 3. John PYNCHON was born in 1654 in Writtle, Essex, England; died on 12 Sep 1610 in Springfield, Essex, England.
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| 3. | John PYNCHON (2.Jane2, 1.Richard1) was born in 1654 in Writtle, Essex, England; died on 12 Sep 1610 in Springfield, Essex, England. John married Frances BRETT on 3 Oct 1588 in Springfield, Essex, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas BRETT and Jane) was born between 1568 and 1570 in Terling, Essex, England; died in 1675/76. [Group Sheet]
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- 4. Hon. Col. William PYNCHON was born on 11 Oct 1590 in Springfield, Essex, England; died on 29 Oct 1662 in Wraysbury, Buckingham, England.
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| 4. |  Hon. Col. William PYNCHON (3.John3, 2.Jane2, 1.Richard1) was born on 11 Oct 1590 in Springfield, Essex, England; died on 29 Oct 1662 in Wraysbury, Buckingham, England. 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.
William married Anne Agnes ANDREW in 1618 in Springfield, Essex, England. Anne (daughter of William Andrew and Bridget Rysley) was born in 1595 in Triwell, Northampton, England; died on 30 Aug 1630 in Roxbury, Norfolk Co, MA. [Group Sheet]
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- 5. Anne PYNCHON was born in 1620 in Dorchester, Dorset, England; died in in USA.
- 6. Mary PYNCHON was born in 1621 in Springfield, Essex, England; died on 25 Oct 1657 in Springfield, Hampden Co, MA.
- 7. Margaret PYNCHON was born in 1624 in Dorchester, Dorset, England.
- 8. Col. John PYNCHON was born in 1625 in England; died on 17 Jan 1702.
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William married Frances. Frances died on 10 Oct 1657 in England. [Group Sheet]
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