- William Pynchon
William Pynchon (
October 11 ,1590 –October 29 ,1662 ) was a colonialassistant ,treasurer and originalpatentee of theMassachusetts Bay Colony . He led the 1635 settlement of Springfield,Hampden County, Massachusetts , which was named after his home village, now a suburb ofChelmsford inEssex ,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 officialCalvinism . Instead of retracting, he returned to England in 1652 where remained for the rest of his life. [Henry M. Burt. "The First Century of the History of Springfield". Henry M. Burt (1898), Vol. I, p. 12.]He is a direct ancestor of the novelist
Thomas Pynchon and the actressFay Wray .His daughter, Mary Pynchon, married
Elizur Holyoke .Notes
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*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
* http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html
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