Pynchon geniology

[Paul Mackin]

Was able to answer my own question about whether Thomas Ruggles  
Pynchon V has his ancestry traced back to William. Gary Boyd Roberts,  
who knows the novelist, has apparently done this. He writes:


"Based on this form and other data received from Mr. Knapp, I was  
able to trace almost half of the novelist's ancestry from readily  
available printed sources (I have made no attempt to trace the  
novelist's mother). The immigrant Amy Wyllys and her husband John  
Pynchon, the Springfield leader and successor to his father William,  
themselves left a son, John Pynchon, Jr., who married Margaret  
Hubbard and in turn left a son William. This last married Catherine  
Brewer, daughter of Rev. Daniel Brewer and Catherine Chauncey,  
daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Strong) Chauncey and granddaughter  
of royally-descended (RD) immigrant Rev. Charles Chauncey, 2nd  
president of Harvard College (and Catherine Eyre), and of John and  
Abigail (Ford) Strong, these last ancestors of the late Diana,  
Princess of Wales, and of Princes William and Henry. Joseph Pynchon,  
son of William and Catherine (Brewer) Pynchon, was a Yale graduate of  
1757 and married Sarah Ruggles, daughter of Rev. Thomas Ruggles, Yale  
graduate of 1723, and Rebecca Hart, daughter (by Rebecca Hubbard) of  
Rev. John Hart, Yale graduate of 1703, son of Thomas and Ruth  
(Hawkins) Hart and grandson of another couple in the ancestry of the  
late Princess of Wales, Stephen Hart of Farmington and his unknown  
wife."

For his complete write up see:

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/ 
special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp

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