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Spouse. Anna Andrews. Signature. William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was also a colonial treasurer, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the iconoclastic author of the New World's first banned ...
May 9, 2018 · WILLIAM PYNCHON. Generation 2. The ancestral village of the Pynchon family was Writtle, near Chelmsford, in Essex, England. WILLIAM PYNCHON was born there in 1513. The family name was spelled in various ways and is thought to be Norman in origin. William was a yeoman, and married about 1545, ELIZABETH STEVENS.
When Sir William Nicholas I Pyncheon was born in 1513, in Writtle, Essex, England, his father, Nicholas Pynchon, was 17 and his mother, Agnes, was 10. He married Elizabeth Allyn about 1528, in Writtle, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 5 September 1553, in his hometown, at the ...
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Jan 21, 2017 · William Pynchon (bef. 1513 - bef. 1552) Born before 1513 in Writtle, Essex, England. Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling (s) unknown] [spouse (s) unknown] Descendants. Father of John (Pinchon) Pinchone esq. Died before 5 Sep 1552 in Writtle, Essex, England. Profile manager: Jeanie Roberts [ send private message ]
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William Pynchon, ancestor of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, a successful fur trader, merchant, and magistrate, and at age 60 wrote the first of many books to be banned in Boston. Pynchon had come to Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, and soon…
William Pynchon is known today as the founder of the city of Springfield. He made his fortune as a fur trader, then acquired extensive landholdings in the Connecticut River Valley.
John Pynchon died 29 November 1573, in England, at about age 39. + 4. SIR JOHN (PINCHON) PYNCHON, LORD OF WRITTLE (1534-1573) 4-a. LADY JANE EMPSON (1542-1587) SIR JOHN PYNCHON, LORD OF WRITTLE, was born in about 1534, of Writtle, Essex, England, to William Pynchon (1513-1553) and Elizabeth Stevens (1515-1552.)
