Pynchons, Puncheons, Maules

[Jules Siegel]

At 11:18 AM 05/1/97 +0000, "Umberto Rossi" <urossi at programatic.it> 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?

You'll find a careful historical review of the Pynchon family history in my
memoir at http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/pynchon.htm.

They did come from England, but, as I comment in the piece, a surviving
Pynchon threatened to sue Hawthorne for using their name and he replied that
he hadn't meant to damage them. A portion of the letter is quoted in the
article.

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