Pynchons, Puncheons, Maules

[BICKMAN MARTIN]

No connections to Hawthorne's Pyncheons, whose name, at least, is
fictional.  No roots in Salem for TRP as far as I can tell; more Boston
and western Mass.

Marty Bickman

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Umberto Rossi wrote:

> > Q. I realize the Pynchon family sprawls back a few hundred years
> > in the States, but what about before that?
> 
> Didn't they come from England?  Weren't they the Pynchons in 
> Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables?
> 
> Umberto Rossi
> 
> "A commission is appointed 
> To confer with a Volscian commission 
> About perpetual peace"--and nobody told me!
>