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William Pynchon was born in Springfield, Essex County, England about 1590 and emigrated to New England with John Winthrop in 1630. In 1636, he moved to establish a fur trading post at what is now Springfield.
William Pynchon’s religious, social, and cultural credentials, well buttressed by considerable wealth, were evidence of divine approval, and the fact that he was Treasurer of the new colony from 1632 to 1634 is ample evidence that he was a good public servant.
(1590-1662) William Pynchon was born in Springfield, Essex, England, and migrated to New England with John Winthrop aboard the Arbella in 1630. Already wealthy when he arrived, he entered the New England fur trade and operated an extensive trading network from Roxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts.
When William Pynchon was born on 11 October 1590, in Springfield, Essex, England, his father, John Pynchon Jr., was 26 and his mother, Frances Frauncis Brett, was 22. He married Agnes Anna Andrew about 1614, in Springfield, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
William Pynchon was born on October 11, 1590 to John and Frances (Brett) Pynchon in Springfield, Essex, England. He was the grandson of Jane Empson. He was an English colonist in America.
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption is a book written by William Pynchon and published in England in 1650. Pynchon expressed views which the Massachusetts General Court found to be full of errors and heresies, and condemned the book to be burnt on the Boston Common. [1] It thus became the first book banned by English colonists in New England .
Jan 20, 2015 · All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston.
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