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!Sealing to Parents: IGI 3Mar 1977 SW Bapt.,Mar.D.TIB
!BIRTH: Vit Rec of Hartford, Conn; Goodwin Genes Notes p.349; Alternate date 25 Feb 1699 given by Fairon James Smith (1954);

!MARRIAGE: Same as Baptism p 373; TIB;

!DEATH: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of CT, Registers of Pedigrees
and Services of Ancestors, p.683;

BAPTISM: Families of Early Hartford, CT by L.B. Barbour, p.678, 373; TIB;
ENDOW: TIB;
SEAL PARENTS: IGI 3 Mar 1977 SW;

!DOCUMENTATION (by Margaret Neuffer):

!BIRTH: Vital Rec. of Hartford, Conn. Goodwin Gen. Notes p.349. (Hartford Twp Rec)
!BAPTISM: Families of Early Hartford, Conn., by Lucius Barnes Barbour, p. 678. & 373 (2 Ch Rec)
!MARRIAGE: Source - same as baptism, page 373.
!DEATH: The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Conn. Registers of Pedigrees and Services of Ancestors, page 683.
Also - Families of Early Hartford, Conn., by L.B. Barbour, page 678.
!TOMBSTONE behind the United Church of Christ, Windsor, Connecticut
In memory of
Mrs Jerushay
relict of Col John
Whiting of Hartford
who died Oct 25
1776 in the 77th
year of her age

BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Second Church Rec. Hartford, Conneticut.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Jerusha married Whiting, Colonel John on 16 Sep 1720. John (son of Whiting, John and Allun, Ann, son of Whiting, Captain Joseph and Allyn, Anna) was born on 15 Dec 1693 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 24 Dec 1693 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 12 Sep 1766 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Sep 1766 in Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Whiting, Joseph was born in Jan 1714/1715 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 22 Jan 1715 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died in Feb 1715 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Feb 1715 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
2. Whiting, Abigail was born on 24 Jul 1718 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 27 Jul 1718 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 21 Dec 1723 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Dec 1723 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
3. Whiting, Jerusha was born on 16 Sep 1720 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 18 Sep 1720 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 6 Jul 1802; was buried in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
4. Whiting, Joseph was born on 14 Feb 1723 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 17 Feb 1723 in Second Ch Rec, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died in Nov 1725 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Nov 1725 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
5. Whiting, Ann was born on 16 Feb 1724 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 21 Feb 1724 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 31 May 1762 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
6. Whiting, John was born on 17 Jun 1727 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 18 Jun 1727 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 21 Feb 1820 in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut.
7. Whiting, Mary was born on 25 Aug 1729 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 31 Aug 1729 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 23 May 1772 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
8. Whiting, Susanna was born on 10 Feb 1732 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 19 Mar 1732 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 19 Mar 1732 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Mar 1732 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
9. Whiting, William was born on 12 Oct 1736 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 20 Oct 1775 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried on 20 Oct 1775 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
10. Whiting, Allyn was born on 23 Jun 1740 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 24 Jun 1740 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 9 Feb 1818.
11. Whiting, Elizabeth was born on 25 Jun 1743 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened on 26 Jun 1743 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 14 Aug 1750 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Aug 1750 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
12. Whiting, Sarah was born on 6 Apr 1749 in of Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 25 Jun 1749 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 12 Oct 1822 in Hartford, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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Richard married Warren, Abigail. Abigail (daughter of Warren, John and Crow, Elisabeth) was born about 1658 in Massachusetts, United States; died after 1712; was buried in Center Church, Wood, Ohio, United States, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!BIRTH: Hartford, Conn Vit Rec P.615, 593, 594; Goodwin Gen Notes p.349; Manwaring's Early Connecticut Probate Rec- Hartford District v 2 pp 619-622; The Goodwin's of Hartford, Conn- J.J.Goodwin pp 105-107; The American Genealogist-S.V.Talcott v 47 pp 17-20, pp 495-498; !MARRIAGE: (1) 14 Feb 1692 Richard LORD (2) 1716 Rev. Timothy WOODBRIDGE; !DEATH: Families of Early Hartford, CT by L.B. Barbour, p.372-373. ENDOWED: TIB SL 863 Bk 5R p.38; !Arch Rec Naoma M. Harker; Arch rec Anella S. Gibbons; Rec Naoma Perry Jolley; !NOTE: See James Savage- The Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Additions & Corrections for v 3 (contained in v 4 p.689)- See v.3 pp 115-116, v 4 p587, p425, p427, v 1 p479.

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Richard married Smith, Mary. Mary (daughter of Smith, Henry and Pynchon, Anna ( Ann)) was born in 1643 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was christened in in unknown; died on 17 May 1702 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; was buried in 1702. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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!BIRTH :Vit Rec Hartford p.593; Lord Genealogy GS Blea142 p.9; Historical Catalogue p.161; MARRIAGE : DEATH :Hartford Probates pp.242-245; BAPTISM : ENDOWED : SEAL PARENTS : SEAL SPOUSE : Arch Rec Naoma M. Harker; Arch Rec Esther Baker Lynds

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!BIRTH: Vit Rec Hartford p.593; Lord Genealogy GS Blea 142 p.9; Historical
Catalogue p.161;

"Families of Early Hartford, Conn., by Lucius Barnes Barbour, pages 372 & 373, 313 gives her birthdate as 1 Sep 1643.

!MARRIAGE: Source - Families of Early Hartford, Conn., by Barbour, page 372.

!DEATH: Source - Hartford Probates pp.242-245; Also Barbour as above, age 59.

Estate divided in 1758.

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John married Crow, Elisabeth in 1644 in BOSTON, SUFFOLK, Massaschusetts. Elisabeth was born about 1632 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 19 Jul 1727 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in May 1727 in Center Church--Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Captain Richard Lord, Cambridge, 1632; freeman, Mass., March 4, 1635 ; came to Hartford in 1636, an original proprietor ; his home-lot in 1639 was next west of his father's. He m. ab. 1635, Sarah -. He was one of the most energetic and efficient men in the colony ; when the first troop of horse was organized, he was chosen commander, March 11, 1658, and distinguished himself in the Indian wan. He was constable, 1642 ; townsman, 1645 ; represented Hartford in the General Court from 1656 until his death. He was the captain relied on, in conjunction with John Pynchon, for securing the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley. He d. in New London, May 17, 1662, in the 51st year of his age, and his gravestone may Still be seen there, with the following epitaph:

“The bright Starre of our Cavallrie Ives here Unto the State, a Counselour fall Dears And to ye Truth a Friend of Sweet Content, To Hartford Towns a silver Ornament. Who can deny to Poore he was Reliefe, And in composing Paroxysmes was Chiefe. To Marchantes as a Patterns he might stand, Adventring Dangers new by Sea and Land.”
His inv. taken May 10, 1662; amount, f1,539. 9. 5. His widow, Sarah, d. in 1676. -Ch. : i. Richard, b. 1636 ; m. April 15, 1665, Mary, can. of Henry and Ann (Pynchon) Smith, of Springfield ; deputy, 1669, and often afterward ; he was one of the wealthiest merchants of his time, made many trading- voyages, and was lost at sea, Nov. 5, 1685, aged 49, leaving a large estate to his widow and his only child ; the inv. of his property amounted to 15,786, and was with one exception the greatest up to that time in Hartford. His widow m. (2) ab. 1686, Dr. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, son of Rev. Samuel Hooker, of Farmington, died May 17, 1702, m. 58. His only child, Richard, b. 1669, m. Jan. 14, 1692, Abigail, dau. of William Warren and his wife, Elizabeth Crow, afterward Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson. She, too, inherited a large property, and together they were one of the wealthiest couples of that period. Richard Lord was Treasurer of the Colony at the time of his death, Jan. 29, 1712, and the heaviest and costliest monumental table in the old burial ground is his. His widow m. (2) Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, pastor of the First Church. Seven of Lord's ten children lived and married into prominent families. Asylum Hill was formerly called Lord's Hill, as a large portion of it was owned by the descendants of Elisha Lord, the oldest surviving son of Richard and Abigail. Their son Richard m. Ruth, dau. of Hezekiah Wyllis, Esq., - apparently removed to Wethersfield, and d. then ab. 1740. The youngest sons, Epaphras and Ichabod, removed to Colchester. iii. Sarah, b. 1638 (dau. of Capt. Richard, who d. 1662) ; m. ab. 1668, Rev. Joseph Haynes, of Hartford; d. Nov. 15, 1705, aged 67. iv. Dorothy, b. 1640.

http://foundersofhartford.org/founders/lord_richard.htm

Captain married Graves, Sarah. Sarah (daughter of Graves, George and Ventress, Elizabeth) was born about 1615; died on 1 Sep 1676 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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http://www.gravesfa.org/gen065.htm

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• Death: 3 Mar 1687, Medfield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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PINCHON FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA BY J.C. PYNCHON

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Springfield, Essex, England.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1607

!SPOUSE: MARRIAGE: Book: New England Marriages Prior to 1700: Clarence Almon

This Henry Smith (1607-1687) from New Buckenham, Norfolk, Eng., a yeoman and husbandman, md to Elizabeth who came to Mass 1637 with sons John and Seth, is often confused with Capt. Henry Smith and a Reverend Henry Smith. Their families are different but often merged. This needs careful defining.

!Watertown 1636.Wetherfield 1637.Pastor.

!A goldsmith of Adermanbury, St. Mary's Parish, London, England. Data from Fred H. Knapp

!Green book 4, sec P. Will dated 2 Aug 1683, Will proved 3 Mar 1687.

Henry married Pynchon, Anna ( Ann) about 1641 in Of Springfield, Essex, England. Anna (daughter of Pynchon, Governor William and Andrew, Agnes Anna, daughter of Pynchon, Governor William and Andrew, Anna) was born in 1615/1616 in Springfield, Essex, England; was christened in in ancestry.com-world tree; died in 1662 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CAUTION: It took many hours for the 2nd time to repair this family from many inaccurate merges with lots of different people named Henry Smith. Let's use the historical, scholarly source, "The Great Migration Begins" and not have to repeat this waste of time again. Son of Francis unknown who md. Smith who later md. William Pynchon, father of Francis's son Henry's wife Ann Pynchon. Complicated but true. See:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158320-00378?pid=65299&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DrrG2%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26db%3Dgreatmigration%26gsfn%3DFrancis%26gsln%3DSmith%26gsfn_x%3DNN%26gsln_x%3DNN%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26redir%3Dfalse%26uidh%3D5v2%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D40%26fh%3D0%26h%3D65299%26recoff%3D4%25205%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=rrG2&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=42521_b158320-00379

!SOURCE: HOLYOKE: A NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY, 23

!BIRTH :Waters Gleanings p.723; B17A80 p.265; Old N.W. Quarterly v.3 Am J; Hist of Springfield, Mass S9 v.2 p.622; Pynchon Fam by J.C. Pynchon; MARRIAGE : DEATH : BAPTISM : ENDOWED : SEAL PARENTS : SEAL SPOUSE : Arch rec Elaine M. Stadtman.

!The "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy", says Ann, 2nd wife of Henry Smith, was the same as Ann(?) Andrews, widow of Francis Andrews.

1st wife son b 18 Apr 1653

!BIR-DEA-MAR-REL: History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Conn.

!She married 2) by 1674, Dr. Henry Smith, son of Thomas or John Smith, atStamford, Fairfield, CT; b 1613; bapt 1619; d 4 Jul 1687 !She is said to be a daughter or sister of Giles Smith, of Hartford, CT,however research of the Giles Smith family and ancestry does not justifythe thought! Jacobus says (Anna, d. second week of Jun 1685 (see p 575,Vol 1, Families of Old Fairfield, by D.L. Jacobus (1930) (Fred Knapp)

CHILDREN: Ann had three children Rebecca, Ruth, and Abraham.

There is a prenuptual agreement in the Sanford, CT, Land Records, Vol. 1, FHL Film #5570. This seems to be a relative modern, handwritten, copy of the original records. p. 101 [86?], It was dated 21st Jan. 1664 and the wife's name was "An". She had children Rebeca, Ruth & Abraham.

She was not mentioned in Henry's will written in 1687.


Sources:
1. Mead, S.P. "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich..." pp.654.

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Stamford, Fairfield, Conn.

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Thomas married Bird, Dorothy on 23 Feb 1610/1611 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy was born on 25 May 1588 in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England; died on 2 Aug 1676 in Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married Ventress, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1647 in of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1692 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Pynchon:

Cemetery: Wrasbury Churchyard; Wraysbury, , , England
Will:
"My chief executor is at present absent. To Elizabeth, Mary and Rebecca Smith, daughters of my son Master Henry Smith, and to his son Elisha Smith, twenty pounds apiece, to be paid by my son Mr. Henry Smith at the time of their marriage, as he did unto Martha Smith, out of a bond which he owes me, of two hundred and twenty pounds; to my daughter Anne Amith the rest of the said bond (220li) with the overplus of interest. To the children of my daughter Margaret Davis, of Boston in New England, deceased, videlicet unto Thomas, Benjamin and William Davis, ten pounds apiece to be paid by my son Mr. Henry Smith. To my son Master John Pynchon, of Springfield in New England (a sum) out of the bond which he owes me of one hundred and six pounds, dated 15 April 1654. Whereas my son Mr. Henry Smith hath promise to pay unto me his debts which have been long due to him in New England and a horse of his at Barbadoes, for the satisfaction of an old debt that he owes me, in Quarto Vellum Book, in page 112, I bequeath them to the children of my son Master Elizur Holioke in New England &c. To the poor of Wraysberie three pounds. Son Mr. John Pynchon of Springfield in New England to be executor, to whom the residue, provided he pay to Joseph and John Pynchon and to Mary and Hetabell Pynchon twenty pounds apiece. Mr. Wickens, citizen and girdler of London, and Mr. Henry Smith of Wraysbery to be overseers. Friend Mr. John Wickens to be my executor touching the finishing of my administration business concerning the estate of Master Nicholas Ware in Virginia, whose estate is thirty pounds in a bill of exchange to Capt. Pensax and about eighteen thousand of tobacco, in several bills made over by Mr. Nicholas Ware to Capt. John Ware of Virginia &c. To beloved sister Jane Tesdall of Abington twenty pounds; to sister Susan Platt twenty pounds, as a token of my cordial love; certain clothing to Mary, Elizabeth and Rebecca Smith."
no date, published in the Historical and Genealogical Register

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William and Anna came to America with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, along with their four children. Anna died of scurvy shortly after their arrival. "His w. d. in the first season, bef. ret. of the sh. [ship] in wh.[which] they came."
William was elected assistant and treasurer of the colony, and helped start a new settlement at Roxbury, MA. He married the widow Frances Samford in about 1632, the mother of his future son-in-law Henry Smith. A couple of years later William and some other men decided to move westward to what is now known as Springfield, MA. At that time the area was under the jurisdiction of Connecticut.
"In … [1635], Mr. Pynchon, Henry Smith, Jehu Burr, and probably, some others, came to this place, called by the Indians Agawam, and began to build a house on the west side of the [Connecticut] river, on the Agawam, in the meadow, called from that fact House meadow. The Indians, seeing this, and being perfectly friendly, informed them that the house would be exposed to the flood, and they abandoned it, and came and built a house on the east side of the river… It is supposed they returned to Roxbury in the fall." These men purchased Aggawam from the Indians for "18 fathoms of wampum , 18 coats, 18 hatchets, 18 hoes, and 18 knives."
In the spring of 1636 William and eight families: Matthew Mitchell, Henry Smith, Jehu Burr, William Blake, Edmund Wood, Thomas Ufford, and John Cable moved to Springfield. The settlement was founded to take advantage of fur trading along the Connecticut River. William ran his town pretty much as he pleased and had a good relationship with the Indians.
In 1650 William wrote a book about justification and redemption. The General Court of Massachusetts passed a resolution condemning the book and demanded William to retract his statements. It was said at the time that the title page itself was sufficient to prove heresy.(see below) The book was ordered burned. Supposedly only four copies escaped the flames, one of which is in the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. In May of 1651, William appeared before the General Court to answer its charges.
After meeting with three clergymen appointed by the Court, Pynchon retracted some, but not all, of his statements. He was sent back to Springfield in a 'hopeful way' to reconsider his views. He transferred all his lands and property in Springfield to his son, and sometime in 1652 he and Frances departed for England, as did his daughter Ann and Henry Smith. There William continued to write religious tracts and pamphlets.


ref: springfieldlibrary.org:
"The Samuel Chapin Genealogy", pg. 260

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William Pynchon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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, USA. He was also a colonial treasurer, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the iconoclastic author of the New World's first banned book. An original settler of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Pynchon became dissatisfied with that town's notoriously rocky soil and in 1635, led the initial settlement expedition to Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, where he found exceptionally fertile soil and a fine spot for conducting trade. In 1636, he returned to officially purchase its land, then known as "Agawam." In 1640, Springfield was officially renamed after Pynchon's home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England — due to Pynchon's grace following a dispute with Hartford, Connecticut's Captain John Mason over, essentially, whether to treat local natives as friends or enemies. (Pynchon was a man of peace and also very business-minded — thus he advocated for friendship with the region's natives.) Pynchon's stance led to Springfield aligning with the faraway government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony rather than the more geographically and ideologically compatible Connecticut Colony.

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1 Founding of Cities
2 Books
3 Notes
4 Sources
5 Further reading
Founding of Cities[edit]
William Pynchon was one of New England's first and most business-minded settlers. In founding Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1630, Pynchon settled land near a narrow isthmus, which was necessary to cross in order to reach the Port of Boston — thus all of Massachusetts' mainland trade needed to pass through his town. Unfortunately, Roxbury — originally named "Rocksbury" for its rocky soil — was a poor site on which to farm in comparison to the fertile Connecticut River Valley. Thus in 1635, Pynchon carefully scouted out the Connecticut River Valley for its best location to both farm and conduct business. Happily, he discovered that its best location had not yet been settled. In locating the land that would become the City of Springfield, Pynchon found land just north of the Connecticut River's first large falls, the Enfield Falls, which was the river's northern terminus navigable by seagoing ships. By founding Springfield where Pynchon did, much of the Connecticut River's traffic would have to either begin, end, or cross his settlement. Additionally, the land that would become Springfield was inarguably among the most fertile for farming in New England — and its Natives were initially friendly, unlike those near southerly Connecticut River settlements such as Hartford.

Earlier settlers of the Connecticut River Valley — who then resided in the three Connecticut settlements at Wethersfield, Hartford and Windsor — had been primarily religious-minded and did not judge land for settlement in the shrewd terms that Pynchon did. Perhaps most strategically of all, Pynchon's settlement was located equidistant to the New World's (then) two most important ports, Boston and Albany, with Native roads already cleared to both places. Springfield could not have been better situated — and currently, as Springfield is the Connecticut River Valley's most populous city, history seems to have vindicated Pynchon's original assessment of the land.[1][2]

In founding "The Great River's" northernmost settlement, Pynchon sought to enhance the trading links with upstream Native peoples such as the Pocumtucks, and over the next generation he built Springfield into a thriving trade town and made a fortune, personally. As noted above, after disagreements with Captain John Mason and later Thomas Hooker about how to treat the native population (Pynchon was a man of peace and Springfield's natives were friendly, whereas Hartford's natives were warlike and thus Connecticut's settlers chose to treat them as enemies rather than friends.) Pynchon believed that Connecticut's policy of intimidating and brutalizing natives was not only unconscionable, but bad for business. After Pynchon became disaffected with the Connecticut Colony, he annexed Springfield to Massachusetts Bay Colony, confirming that colony's western and southwestern boundaries.

Pynchon built a warehouse in what was once Springfield, but is present-day East Windsor, Connecticut, known as Warehouse Point — and to this day, it still bears the name. In the years 1636-1652, Pynchon exported between 4,000 to 6,000 beaver pelts a year from that location, and also was the New World's first commercial meat packer, exporting pork products.[3] The profits from these endeavors enabled him to retire to England as a very wealthy man.[4]

Books[edit]
In 1649, William Pynchon found time to write a critique of his place and times' dominant religious doctrine, Puritanical Calvinism, entitled The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Published in London in 1650, it quickly reached Boston and caused a sensation. Pynchon was one of Massachusetts' wealthiest and most important men, and in his book — which refuted Puritan theology by claiming that obedience, rather than punishment and suffering, was the price of atonement — was immediately burned on the Boston Common, (only 4 copies survived,) and soon after became the New World's first-ever banned book. Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally accused Pynchon of heresy and demanded that he retract its argument. Coincidentally, Pynchon's court date took place on the same day and at the same place that the New World's first witch trial — that of Hugh and Mary Parsons of Springfield — took place. Instead of retracting his arguments, Pynchon stealthily transferred his land holdings to his son John — who later became an equally large influence in Springfield — while William Pynchon returned to England in 1652, where he remained for the rest of his life.[5]

After Pynchon's return to England, his son John extended his father's settlements in the Connecticut River Valley northward, founding Northampton, Westfield, Hadley, and other towns. His daughter, Mary Pynchon, married Elizur Holyoke, after whom the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts and the nearby Holyoke Range are named.

William Pynchon is an ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon.

Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ http://ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu/colonialperiod/williampynchon.html
Jump up ^ http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/people_places/view.jsp?itemtype=2&id=245
Jump up ^ http://springfield375.org/?p=126
Jump up ^ Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England, Diana Muir, p. 31-2
Jump up ^ Henry M. Burt. The First Century of the History of Springfield. Henry M. Burt (1898), Vol. I, p. 12.
Sources[edit]
Chr.G.F. de Jong, “Christ’s descent” in Massachusetts. The doctrine of justification according to William Pynchon (1590-1662), in: Gericht Verleden. Kerkhistorische opstellen aangeboden aan prof. dr. W. Nijenhuis ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzeventigste verjaardag; ed. by dr. Chr.G.F. de Jong & dr J. van Sluis (1991) 129–158 [pub: Leiden, J.J. Groen & Son]
See also: http://members.home.nl/cgf.de.jong/
Further reading[edit]
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Springfield, Essex, England.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born of Springfield, Essex, England.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Wraisbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried 4 Oct 1662

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried 29 Oct 1622

PREFIX: Also shown as Gov.

William married Andrew, Anna in 1623 in Springfield, Essex, England. Anna was born in 1592/1600 in Twywell, Northampton, England; was christened on 28 May 1594 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Aug 1630 in Roxbury, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Source - The Society of Colonial Wars in The State of Connecticut; Register of Pedigrees and Services of Ancestors, page 683.

William and Anna came to America with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, along with their four children. Anna died of scurvy shortly after their arrival. "His w. d. in the first season, bef. ret. of the sh. [ship] in wh.[which] they came."
William was elected assistant and treasurer of the colony, and helped start a new settlement at Roxbury, MA. He married the widow Frances Samford in about 1632, the mother of his future son-in-law Henry Smith. A couple of years later William and some other men decided to move westward to what is now known as Springfield, MA. At that time the area was under the jurisdiction of Connecticut.
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shopefamily/Tree/famf407.html

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Agnes Anna

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Twiwell, Northampton, England.

BIRTH RITE: Also shown as Christening Unknown.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

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Richard married Joan. Joan was born in 1559; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Brett, Frances on 25 Sep 1588 in St Botolph Aldgate, London, England. Frances (daughter of Brett, Thomas and Brett, Mrs. Jane) was born in <1569> in ; died in 1675/1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]