William PYNCHON, Colonel b. 11 Oct 1590 Springfield, Essex, England d. 29 Oct 1662 Wraysbury, Buckingham, England

1590 - 1662 (72 years)

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Name	William PYNCHON
Suffix	Colonel
Born	11 Oct 1590	Springfield, Essex, England
Gender	Male
Died	29 Oct 1662	Wraysbury, Buckingham, England
Buried	29 Oct 1662	Wraysbury, Buckingham, England
Person ID	I7491	Patterson & Markham Family Tree
Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

Father	John PYNCHON, b. Abt 1564, of Springfield, Essex, England , d. Bef 12 Sep 1610 (Age ~ 46 years)
Mother	Frances BRETT, b. 1568, of Terling, Essex, England , d. 1630 (Age 62 years)
Family ID	F2745	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Anna ANDREW, b. Abt 1594, Twiwell, Northampton, England , d. 30 Aug 1630, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 36 years)

Children

	1. Mary PYNCHON, b. Abt 1623, Springfield, Essex, England , d. 26 Oct 1657 (Age ~ 34 years)
	2. Ann PYNCHON, b. Abt 1609, Springfield, Essex, England , d. Aft 1682, , , England (Age ~ 74 years)
	3. Margaret PYNCHON, b. 1624, Dorchester, Dorset, England , d. 3 May 1633 (Age 9 years)
	4. John PYNCHON, b. 1621/1625, Dorchester, Dorset, England , d. 17 Jan 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States (Age 78 years)
	5. PYNCHON, b. Abt 1627, Dorchester, Dorset, England

Family ID F2744 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
Coloniel Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 683.

see my Whiting file.

Source: "Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah
Crawford.

Buried in Wraysbury Churchyard, Wraysbury, Bucks., England.

Will proved 8 Dec. 1662 and names sisters, Jane & Susan.

Founder of Roxbury, Mass. in 1630 and Springfield, Mass. in 1636.
Governor of Springfield Colony.
Came to America in 1630. Left from the Isle of Wight, March 29, 1630.
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FGR in possession of Anna Marie Smith, SLC, UT.
Genealogical Gleanings in England, by Waters, vol. 1. Will of John
Pynchon
Might only be of Springfield, Essex, England.
Might have been born in 1585
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The Ancestral File also lists a son born abt 1627 in Dorchester, Dorset,
England, who died as a child
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!McIntryre, Ruth. William Pynchon : merchant and colonizer, 1590-1662.
US/CAN 921.73 A1, no. 99

!Writtle is close to Chelmsford.
!William was first cousin to Sir Edward Pynchon of Writtle.
!His ship arrived in Salem in June 1630.
!His first wife died soon after arriving in Massachusetts, and he later
married Frances Sandford, a widow from Dorchester, where he had lived
briefly.

!Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the family
history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
pub. 1987, p 344

Hinman, R.R. A Catalogue of the names of the first Puritan settlers of
the Colony of Connecticut... c1968, p. 66-67 Lists his activities in Conn.
Lists children.