Thomas Wilson was Secretary of State, and thus Queen Elizabeth would have to approve of Wilson’s marriage to Jane Empson, that made Thomas the stepfather of John Pynchon Jr. This line married into the Webb family, who are the only line to Shakespeare, and together they Colonized much of New England. Thomas heard of Queen Elizabeth’s desire to establish HER colonies in the New World. He had to know of the first attempts. He would gather together A UNITED FAMILY to go forth and qonquer this World, in order to keep it out of the hands of her mortal enemy, Philip von Hapsburg. This was – war! I suspect marriages were made in order to recruit the New Argonauts. The Radical Puritans would get the job done.
For sixteen years we have been exposed to the mythical and fictional whims of Dan Brown and the Sinclair family, along with a bevy of alleged scholars, have wormed their way onto our T.V. sets in order to claim the Knights Templar colonized the new world – and left a treasure on Oak Island. Not one of these imposters speak of the first Protestant Queen’s War of the Religious Worlds, because they know nothing about religion. These morons banned me from yahoogroups because I was steeped in Biblical knowledge, and, I kept asking them to give an example of the great things Jesus and Mary Magdalene & Company did in the world. Surely, if it was God’s Plan to unite them in sexual union. He had a Master Plan – for their offspring! These authors were furious! They thought I was a Christian because I quoted the Bible.
“They were Gnostics!”
“So! What did this HOLY gnostic bloodline – do?”
There were TWO HUMANS who had a Master Plan, and that was Philip and Elizabeth. Philip was very eager to put his seed inside Elizabeth, and have her born his baby. Did God and Son bless the Catholic religion, or, the Protestant religion? America was The Testing Ground. Whose holy seed, will take?
What is interesting, it is alleged Jane ‘Pynchon’ Empson remarried Thomas Wilson. I now wonder if Thomas had three wives. Why? His grandfather married Ada Antionette Erasmus, a princess of the Schwarzenberg family who are kin to the Hapsburgs. Is it possible Queen Elizabeth wanted to create her own Habsburg lineage, and place it in the New World, thus, usurping the linage, and intentions of Philip? Cadet branches were used for this purpose. That Lord Zinzendorf is kin to Ada and Maximillian von Habsburg, suggests Royal Genealogist knew how bloodlines could conquer and take, and make, a new kingdom – with the help of major religions. Elizabeth would want to turn the tables on her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. This is the foremost Game of Thrones. The Moravian Church may be a front for the funding of a new bloodline.
https://rosamondpress.com/2019/03/06/was-baron-wilson-a-knights-templar/
In the spoiler below, it is pointed out not many people would attend a symbols lecture. The truth is, the Browns eavesdropped on several groups I belonged to that did discuss symbols and names. I filed some of my name-code, my “rose line” in my late sister’s probate – not knowing we descend form the Wilson Priestly Line!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Schwarzenberg
I threatened to turn my study into a historic-fiction-romance- thriller, three years before Dan’s famous book was published. Telling the faux scholars my sister was a world famous artist that signs her work ‘Rosamond’, and that she is the granddaughter of Mary Magdalene Rosamond, filled this morons – with rage!
“Why don’t you leave us artists alone!” I shouted.
For this reason, my historic-fiction-romance will off Shakespeare, because, the Habsburgs made him an offer he could not refuse! William will be assassinated on stage while wearing a mask. The murder of Shakespeare explains so much. I will solve the riddle!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots
Below, is a photograph of me taken before a large canvas of the Habsburg family who fled to America because Hitler wanted them dead. How ironic that the seed that sprang from Philip, alas was planted in the Protestant New World. Empress Zita described her family making soup from the dandelions that grew in their front yard. Their Protestant hosts refused to feed them.
I sent an e-mail to Karl Schwarzenberg informing him of the Wilson line to the Rosamond line. There is an attempt to erase this link, but, it is failing. With the writer, Thomas Pynchon, onboard The Quest, the hope I am utterly ignored, is futile. I will be sending THIS POST out to publishers and movie makers. How about Netflix, Showtime and HBO?
Note the white flowers that are strewn on the carped before the children, who seems to fade away. What does this symbolize?
Hit it Maestro!
John Presco
Copyright 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony
https://www.elizabethi.org/contents/armada/
“Spain was the most powerful country in the world. Philip II ruled vast territories of land, and had unparalleled wealth from the New World. England was a small country, with little wealth, few friends, and many enemies. If Queen Elizabeth ever felt nervous about challenging the greatest power in the known world, she never showed it, and appeared to believe completely in the devotion and loyalty of her people. By believing in them, they believed in her.
“Though not a lord of the manor, the Pynchon family was included in the Heralds’ Visitations of Essex in 1612 and 1634 (though not in the earlier Visitation of 1558). Also, as seen earlier, after his grandfather’s death, William’s grandmother remarried Sir Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth. One of his cousins married Richard Weston, later first Earl of Portland and Chancellor of the Exchequer. So this family appears to have been on the fringe of the social class usually holding manors and serving as functionaries in their counties.”
https://rosamondpress.com/2018/07/23/karl-schwarzenberg-and-the-habsburg-audience/
https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Wilson-MP/6000000010886211061
https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Webb-of-Bramcote/6000000007356756223?through=6000000010886211061
JOHN PYNCHON was born in 1534 at Writtle, Essex, England. He seemingly established the family properties and prestige on a sounder basis by marriage to JANE EMPSON, a daughter of Sir Richard Empson. She also was born at Writtle, Essex, England, about 1534.
John died 29 Nov 1573 in England.
The widow Jane Pynchon married Sir Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth I. Her death occurred on November 10, 1587, in Essex, England.
Their only known son was JOHN PYNCHON JR.
Two princely lines[edit]
At the beginning of the 19th century, the House of Schwarzenberg was divided into two princely-titled lines (majorats).[1] This division was already foreseen in the will of Prince Ferdinand (*1652 – †1703). However, the absence of two male heirs until Joseph II. and Karl I. Philipp inhibited the execution. The senior branch,which held not only the Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna, but also the Dominions of Scheinfeld, Krumlov, Frauenberg and Murau, died out in the male line in 1979 upon the death of Joseph III of Schwarzenberg, who was the 11th Prince of Schwarzenberg. The cadet branch, which was established by Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg at Orlík Castle, continues to the present day.
The two branches have now been re-united under the current head of the family, Karl VII of Schwarzenberg, who is the 12th Prince of Schwarzenberg. He is a Czech politician and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
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The three last Princes of the primogeniture: Adolf (l.), Johann II. (m.) and Josef III. (r.)
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The heir of both lines: Karl VII./I.
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The last Prince of the secundogeniture: Karl VI. (m.)
Present Time[edit]
Due to the unification of the family-headship under Karl VII Schwarzenberg, the fidei commissa of both the primogeniture / Hluboka line and the secundogeniture / Orlik line came under the single ownership of the last-mentioned prince. Karl VII created in the 1980s the current structure of the family belongings. The German and Austrian properties from the primogeniture were embeded (with some exceptions) into the Fürstlich Schwarzenberg’sche Familienstiftung (Princely Schwarzenberg Family-Foundation) based in Vaduz. The art collection, which includes the painting The Abduction of Ganymede by Peter Paul Rubens or an important collection of works by Johann Georg de Hamilton, is held in the separate Fürstlich Schwarzenberg’sche Kunststiftung (Princely Schwarzenberg Art-Foundation). The Czech property of the secundogeniture is held privately. The members of the family follow careers in the private or military sector.
https://www.radio.cz/en/section/czechs/a-tour-of-the-schwarzenberg-tomb-in-trebon
John Wilson, Kt.
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| Birth: | 1450 Cupar, Fife, Scotland |
| Death: | February 13, 1492 (42) Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Place of Burial: | Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Immediate Family: | Son of John Wilson and Antoinette Erasmus Husband of Margaret Harvie Father of Sir Thomas Wilson, of Strubby; Archibald Wilson and John Thomas Wilson |
Thomas Wilson, MP 
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OUR PYNCHON FAMILY
Generation 1
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CHILDREN
- Edward, b. 1521.
- WILLIAM PYNCHON, b. 1523. He also died in Writtle. He married Elizabeth Stevens.
- Robert, b. 1525.
- John, b. 1527.
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. She was born at Writtle about 1515, the daughter of Richard Stevens. As is typical, little else is known of her.
Elizabeth died in 1552 possessed of substantial holdings. William died at Writtle on September 5th, in 1553.
The only known child of William and Elizabeth Pynchon was JOHN PYNCHON.
JOHN PYNCHON
Generation 3
JOHN PYNCHON was born in 1534 at Writtle, Essex, England. He seemingly established the family properties and prestige on a sounder basis by marriage to JANE EMPSON, a daughter of Sir Richard Empson. She also was born at Writtle, Essex, England, about 1534.
John died 29 Nov 1573 in England.
The widow Jane Pynchon married Sir Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth I. Her death occurred on November 10, 1587, in Essex, England.
Their only known son was JOHN PYNCHON JR.
JOHN PYNCHON JR.
Generation 4
JOHN PYNCHON JR. was born in 1564 at Writtle, Essex, England. He inherited the family properties at Springfield, England, upon his father’s death in 1573 at the age of nine. He was educated at New College, Oxford, and received his bachelor’s degree there in 1581 at the age of seventeen.
When he died in 1610, John Pynchon, “gent.”, provided in his will that William, his eldest son, should receive, during the remainder of his wife’s life, a portion of the rents and profits of certain lands and tenements in the parish of Writtle, and after her death, all the houses, lands, and tenements of decedent in Springfield and Widford, all in Essex.
It is possible that William married first a young woman of the surname Orchard, of whom nothing is known.
On October 3rd, 1588, he married FRANCES BRETT. She was born about 1568 at Terling, Essex County, England, the daughter of Thomas and Jane Brett.
John Pynchon died on the 4th or the 12th of September, 1610, at Springfield, Essex, England. One source states that Jane died before 13 November 1610 (which I feel is the more probable death date); a second source states she died 1676 in England.
CHILDREN of JOHN & FRANCES (BRETT) PYNCHON
All born at Springfield, Essex, England
- WILLIAM PYNCHON, born in December, 1590. He married Anna Andrew.
- Peter Pynchon, born about 1592.
- Annes Pynchon, born about 1594.
- Frances Pynchon, born about 1596.
- Jane Pynchon, born about 1598.
- Alice Pynchon, born about 1600.
- Isabel Pynchon, born about 1602.
- Susanna Pynchon, born about 1604; married (-) Platt.
WILLIAM PYNCHON
Generation 5
The Emigrant to America
WILLIAM PYNCHON was born around December 26th or 27th, 1590 at Springfield, in Essex, England. The Winthrop Society states his birth was around December 27, 1590.
Springfield lies some 30 miles NE of London, near Chelmsford, the shire town or county seat as we know it. The ancient parish church of Springfield lies across the little Chelmer River. Near the church are several mansions of the landed gentry.
THE MANOR OF WRITTLE
Not that far from the medieval era, land ownership in England was very complex with lordships, manors, sub-manors, parishes, tenements, fealty, and more. The relationship between the lords, squires, tenants, and freeholders could also be complex. A very good example of this could be found in the book called, “The Forest” by Rutherford.
Everyone knew his place and everyone was greeted by name. The gentry, of course, held a privileged position, and administered the daily affairs of the parish and their own estates. They provided employment, meted out justice, and drilled with the trainbands. As long as time was known, the rural people wanted and expected the men of wealth and good birth to be their leaders.
The Pynchon family belonged to the armorial gentry of Essex. They owned acreage at Writtle and Springfield, but we have no evidence that Pynchon was a “lord of the manor”. The manor court records, in fact, show that William Pynchon, “gent.” [gentleman], did fealty to the lord for certain lands inherited from his father called Varneswell Fields and Varneswell Moores, which had been conveyed to his father in February 1596/97.
The manor of Writtle, held by the Petres, was one of the largest in Essex and included no reference to William Pynchon in its Manor Court Rolls. What is to be seen is a May 1st, 1612 document, where a cousin (Sir Edward Pynchon) released to William all rights in some farms and other lands in the parishes of Writtle, Broomfield, and Chignall St. James. Cousin Sir Edward Pynchon was lord of the Manor of Roman’s Fee (probably identical with the Manor of Turges), one of the nine sub-manors of Writtle.
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Though not a lord of the manor, the Pynchon family was included in the Heralds’ Visitations of Essex in 1612 and 1634 (though not in the earlier Visitation of 1558). Also, as seen earlier, after his grandfather’s death, William’s grandmother remarried Sir Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth. One of his cousins married Richard Weston, later first Earl of Portland and Chancellor of the Exchequer. So this family appears to have been on the fringe of the social class usually holding manors and serving as functionaries in their counties.
His first wife was ANNA ANDREW, the daughter of William Andrew, a member of an old Warwickshire family. She was born between 1592 and 1600 at Twiwell, County of Northampton, England.
Judging by his published works, including extensive knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew writers, theological doctrines, and English law, his biographers have unanimously regarded him as a “gentleman of learning and religion”.
A descendant, Dr. Thomas R. Pynchon of Hartford, stated:
“William Pynchon was educated at Oxford, matriculated at Hart Hall, afterwards Hertford College, October 14th, 1596, when he was eleven years old. It was then the custom to send boys to the Halls of Oxford at an early age. It was, no doubt, here that he acquired his familiarity with Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and accumulated those stores of theological and patriotic learning that he drew from later in life in writing his various works. He was in 1624 one of the church-wardens of Springfield Parish in England. Married Anna Andrew, daughter of William Andrew of Twiwell, County Northampton. Was one of the principal projectors of the settlement of New England. A patentee and assistant named in the charter of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, granted by Charles I, March 28, 1628. Sailed from the Isle of Wight March 29, 1630, in the fleet of three vessels that carried the charter over. Founded Roxbury the same year and Springfield in 1636. Returned to England in 1652 and in 1653 bought lands in Wrasbury, County Bucks, near his Bulstrode relations in the adjoining parish of Horton, and directly opposite Magna Charta Island in the Thames, and the field of Runnymede. He died October 29, 1662, and was buried in the Wrasbury churchyard.”
Records found in the Essex Quarter Sessions Rolls reveal that Pynchon was a churchwarden of Christ Church in Springfield in January 1619/20 and in December 1624. In Essex County, along with the county of Suffolk, Puritanism predominated.
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William was acquainted with certain Puritan country gentlemen and city merchants of London who, together, formed the Massachusetts Bay Company when King Charles I granted them land. This was to become the Massachusetts Bay Company. It was, primarily, a commercial enterprise.
How would William Pynchon have become interested in the Massachusetts Bay Company project? Chelmsford was the center of a strong Puritan group which certainly would have played some part. He was a close neighbor in Essex of the famous minister, Thomas Hooker, who took many with him to Massachusetts and then to Connecticut; but there is no evidence that he, or personal friendship with him, was of any influence. Political considerations may have played a part, as seen in his later writings. He was a visionary and no doubt saw an unlimited capacity for wealth in the New World, certainly leaning toward the business end of things along with being a Puritan.
William Pynchon was a patentee and an assistant named in the Charter forming the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England. He took the oath as assistant on May 13, 1629, and regularly attended the meetings of the General Court and of the Court of Assistants. In August of 1629 he signed The Cambridge Agreement.
Twelve leaders of the Company pledged to emigrate with their families to New England, agreeing to leave before March 1, 1630.
William Pynchon paid £25 for his share of stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company, and received a receipt for his payment. This receipt is preserved in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
In October, 1629, William helped draw up articles of agreement between the Adventurers remaining in England and those intending to remove. He was again elected an assistant on October 29th when it had been decided to transfer the government to New England.
It was his task to accumulate the weapons and ammunition for the Winthrop fleet. Before leaving England, he disposed of some of his Springfield holdings. As a shareholder of the company he was entitled to 200 acres and 50 acres for each servant he would bring with him.
Pynchon left England on March 29, 1630. The Winthrop Society recognizes him as one who sailed in 1630 with The Winthrop Fleet. It is possible, even likely, that he sailed with John Winthrop and the charter. He brought with him his wife and three daughters. His son, John, crossed later.
They arrived at Boston in the summer. One third of the emigrants and half of the cattle perished. In a letter sent to supporters in England, Thomas Dudley wrote about the Puritans’ arrival in Massachusetts in the summer of 1630.
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ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS
Upon arrival in New England, Pynchon settled first at Dorchester, but within a short time removed to Roxbury, an adjoining settlement. He was possibly a principal founder of Roxbury and was “one of the first foundation of the church” (Savage) in that town, though I have not seen his name in any history of either.
From April until December 1631, a scurvy epidemic devastated the region and about 200 perished. His wife, Anna, died on 30 August 1630 even before the ship that brought her to New England began its return journey.
After some years he married the Widow Frances Sanford Smith. She was described by Eliot as the “grave matron of the church at Dorchester”. She is said to have been a fitting companion for an educated man having the attainments of Mr. Pynchon. Her son by her first marriage, Henry Smith, a “godly, wise young man,” later married William’s daughter, Anne, and figured prominently in the settlement that became Springfield.
As a member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, William Pynchon served as:
- Assistant — 1630-36, and again 1642-50/51. The Court of Assistants was then the principal judicial body in the plantation. He participated extensively in hearing and determining civil and criminal causes.
- Treasurer — 1632-1634.
- Member, Commission for Military Affairs — March 1634/35.
THE PURCHASE OF THE LAND
In the Spring of 1636, Pynchon, his family, and the other settlers, uprooted to settle at Agawam on the Connecticut River. Two months later, William and two others bought the land on both sides of the Connecticut, signing the deed on July 15th with two of the “ancient Indians of Agawam,” and others.
They paid the eighteen fathoms of wampam*, eighteen coates, 18 hatchets, 18 howes, 18 knifes for the land.
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William was now the northernmost trader on the Connecticut River. He had a warehouse and conduted business with the settlers and Indians for necessities such as various kinds of cloth, thread, ready-made coats, spoons, salt and other scarce foodstuffs, knives, hatchets, tin looking glasses, tobacco boxes, scissors, brass kettles, mackerel hooks, needles and pins. With the Indians, he traded for furs.
Only William Pynchon and Henry Smith (his son-in-law) became permanent settlers, staying more than fifteen years. Mr. Pynchon’s leadership held the settlement together, “at greate charges and at greate personall adventures.”
Since he was the town magistrate, and actually held almost all official offices, he held the power to decide punishment for offenses, but he leaned more toward moderation than other Puritan officials.
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JURISDICTION CHANGES
On 14 February 1638/39, the Agawam planters met and voted Mr. Pynchon to be their first magistrate. In June of 1641, he was officially commissioned by the General Court. The Indians called the settlers “Pynchon’s men”.
William was the most powerful figure in the Connecticut Valley, and maintained friendly relations between the Indians and his settlement by a conciliatory policy, treating them as independent. The Indians had confidence in him, and were readily guided by his wishes.
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On the 14th of April, 1641, the people voted in a general town meeting and changed the name of the town from Agawam to Springfield in honor of his birthplace in England. The General Court recognized the town as Springfield in 1641, and the State of Massachusetts has recognized our ancestor as the Founder of Springfield ever since. For some unknown reason, he was not made a “Freeman” of the Colony until the 11th of August 1642, because he certainly was working in the capacity of one.
Added here, only because it fits here in the timeline of William’s life, is a little snippet in his own words. The Massachusetts Collections has preserved some of William Pynchon’s letters. There is a letter dated Springfield, October 19, 1648, in which he alludes to Mr. Ludlow’s visit at his house, and to some fault he found with the construction of some orders that had been prepared, to which he added this sage conclusion. “But often tymes it fals out that a man may be one of the 20 that will find fault, & yet be none of the 20 that will mend them.”
WITCHCRAFT IN SPRINGFIELD
William Pynchon was the prosecuting magistrate in a case of witchcraft that pre-dated those in Salem, Massachusetts, by 70 years. It was the case of Mary Parsons, who circulated a report that a widow named Marshfield was a practitioner of witchcraft. Mrs. Marshfield began an action against Mrs. Parsons, and Magistrate Pynchon found Mrs. Parsons guilty of slander and sentenced her to receive 20 lashes from the constable, or pay £3, which was paid with 24 bushels of Indian corn.
An interesting painting by the Deerfield, Massachusetts, artist George Fuller at the Memorial Hall Museum is his “Examination of Witnesses in a Trial for Witchcraft” (1884). The painting belongs now to the Art Institute of Chicago, but has been digitized and is to be seen at the Memorial Hall Museum and on its website.
WILLIAM PYNCHON’S DISGRACE
William visited London in 1650 and published a theological book entitled “The Meritorious Price of our Redemption”.
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The book’s appearance in Boston astonished and offended the General Court. Some said the title page itself was sufficient to prove the heretical nature of the arguments. William was received on his return with a storm of indignation. The Court passed a resolution on October 15, 1650, condemned the book, ordered that it should be burned by the public executioner, and summoned the author to appear before them at session the next May.
Copies of the book were burned the next day. Only four copies have survived, one of which is preserved at the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum. In addition, a day of “fasting and humiliation” was proclaimed in order for the populace to consider how Satan had prevailed among them by “drawing away some . . . to the profession and practize of straunge opinions.” Satan’s influence in the colony was growing and Pynchon’s book was the proof of that!
Boston officials burning Mr. Pynchon’s book.
William appeared before the Court in May 1651 and the case against him was discussed among the colony’s freemen; but because he was a powerful man of influence, he would be treated in a rather careful manner. After this meeting, Pynchon retracted some of his statements, claiming they had entirely misunderstood his meaning. He was not then condemned but was sent back to Springfield in a “hopefull way” to reconsider his views and make a full retraction, and the case was continued until the next General Court in October of 1651, when a decision would be reached. William neither gave in nor went to Boston October 14th, when the Court met. Ten days later, the court rendered a judgment ordering him to appear the next May of 1652 for judgment and censure of the Court.
Sensing himself in some little danger, though not a man of fear of conflict, he was now old and had no stomach for a huge legal battle or more serious contentions. He stood to lose his fortune, his property, and be left in disgrace and ruin. On September 28th, 1651, he conveyed to his son, as a gift, all his lands and buildings on both sides of the Connecticut River. His land grants from the town totaled about 280 acres. William also installed John as successor to his vast business interests. His son was now the largest land owner in Springfield.
Though the exact date is unknown, William Pynchon and his wife, returned to England. His daughter, and son-in-law Henry Smith, followed early the next year. None ever returned. It is unknown if the Bay Colony prosecution was dropped or if his departure was in continued defiance of the authorities, but he never made a satisfactory recantation of his “errors”.
Only two of William’s family remained in Springfield: his son, John, daughter Elizabeth, and her husband, Elizur Holyoke. John took on the magistracy which had been his father’s. He would stay out of dangerous discussions of theology for the rest of his life.
William established himself at the rural village of Wraysbury on the Thames, near Windsor, with his wife and one of his daughters, Anne Smith. Anne’s mother-in-law, the Widow Frances Sanford Smith, was now married to William Pynchon, so was also her step-mother.
William was able to spend the last ten years of his life pursuing theological study and writing, which were his passion. Oddly, now back in England, he was in conformity with the Church of England. In 1655, he revised his book, “The Meritorious Price of Man’s Redemption, or Christ’s Satisfaction discussed and explained,” with a rejoinder to the Rev. John Norton’s “answer”. Other works of his pen include “The Jewes Synagogue” (1652), “How the First Sabbath was ordained” (1654), and “The Covenant of Nature made with Adam” (1662).
William’s wife died on October 10th, 1657 at Wraisbury, on the Thames, near famous Runnymede, in County Buckinghamshire. William died at the same place on October 29, 1662 (aged 72).
THE WILL OF WILLIAM PYNCHON
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CHILDREN of WILLIAM & ANNA (ANDREWS) PYNCHON
- Ann Pynchon was born about 1618. She married Henry Smith, a “godly, wise young man” who figured prominently in the settlement of the plantation of Agawam. Ann and Henry Smith had two children: Mary and Hannah.
- JOHN PYNCHON married Amy Wyllys of Hartford. She was the daughter of Connecticut’s early governor, George Wyllys.
- Margaret Pynchon was born about 1624 at Dorchester, Dorset, England. She married at Springfield, on 6 December 1644, Capt. William Davis of Boston, born about 1620 at Dorchester, Dorset, England. She died on 3 July 1653 at Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Capt. Davis died 17 May, 1676, at Boston, Suffolk Co., Mass. He was a wealthy and enterprising Boston apothecary, and was chosen deputy from Springfield several times.
- Mary Pynchon was born about 1622 in Essex, England. She married Elizur Holyoke on 20 November 1640, born in 1613 at Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, the son of Edward Holyoke and Prudence Stockton. She died October 20th or 26th, 1657, at Springfield, Hampden Co, Mass. He died at the same place on 9 Feb 1675/76.
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William Pynchon Papers, 1640-1647.
Massachusetts Historical Society: Ms. N-760
One narrow box of papers related to Pynchon’s defense against charges by the Connecticut General Court related to his trading of corn with the Mohawk Indians of the Connecticut River Valley (now Mass.). The charges maintained that Pynchon raised the price of corn for his own economic gain. Included here is Pynchon’s defense to the Church of Windsor, Conn. from which he sought public support after being fined by the General Court. The Church was unconvinced by Pynchon’s attempted defense.
Zuckerman, Michael. Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1970) p. 219.
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
Cambridge Agreement – The Winthrop Society.
History of Springfield, Vol. II.
Soldiers in King Philip’s War – Soldiers In King Philip’s War From 1620-1677, by George Madison Bodge, 1906. An online book. It draws from the ancient account books of Mr. John Hull, Treasurer-at-war of Massachusetts Colony, from 1675-1678. Webmistress Debbie Jeffers, a USGenNet website.
Home Page Colonial America: From Exploration through the American Revolution
History of the United States of America, by Henry W. Elson (New York: MacMillan Co., 1904) ch. IV, pp. 103-111.
A very brief, two-paragraph explanation of Puritans and Pilgrims. The online book was transcribed by Kathy Leigh on her USGenNet website.
The Terry Family website — the webmistress also is descended from William and John Pynchon.
Lesson 4 in American Centuries.
