Pynchon ancestor?

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"The contract in July 1636 between the fur trader William Pynchon and the
village of Agawam gives a revealing glimpse of the Native American viewpoint
[on land ownership]. A total of thirteen Inidans signed the document, in
which they agreed to sell a tract of four or five miles along the Conneticut
River, but retained the right to 'have and enjoy all that cottinackeesh, or
ground that is now planted; And have liberty to take Fish and Deer, ground
nuts, walnuts akornes and sasachiminesh or a kind of pease' within it."

                        James Wilson. _The Earth Shall Weep: A History of
                        Native America_. (1998) London: Picador, p. 85.

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