While lounging in my easy chair, I did some DNA Surfing. I wondered who Jane Empson was. Turns out, she’s Thomas Pynchon’s great, great, great grandmother. Thomas is in Shakespeare’s family tree, and, the great Schwarzenberg tree. Jane married John Pynchon, whose grandson is the famous William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield and Roxbury Massachusetts. … Continue reading Thomas Wilson – Thomas Pynchon