Meat man Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

Accustomed to the literary games played throughout
Pynchon’s postmodern works, there was speculation that
the entire gag alluded to his first American ancestor,
William Pynchon, who sailed with John Winthrop’s fleet
and founded Springfield, Massachusetts in 1630....

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ketzan_simpsons.htm

William Slothrop

William Pynchon is Thomas' colonial descendant, born
in Springfield, Essex, England on 11 October 1590. He
married Anne Agnes Andrew about 1623. The family
emigrated to New England on Winthrop's fleet of 1630,
Anne dying soon after their arrival. A few years
later, William married Frances Sanford of Dorchester.
William was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
and one of the Bay Colony's leaders until his
publication of a book about justification and
redemption, The Meritorious Price of our Redemption
(1650)....

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/ety.html

ONE MAN'S SEARCH TO LIVE LIFE ON HIS OWN TERMS
WILLIAM PYNCHON OF SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html

Another Springfield First!

The first book banned in the New England colonies was
written by William Pynchon, founder of Springfield,
Massachusetts 

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/pynchon.html

William Pynchon

http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/

McIntyre, Ruth A.  William Pynchon:
   Merchant and Colonizer.  Springfield, MA:
   Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1961.

And, for the record ...

Agawam is located at 42°4′19″N,
72°38′39″W (42.071961, -72.644097). The
city borders West Springfield, Massachusetts to the
north ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agawam,_Massachusetts

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:

> Browsing the New Yorker files I  found something I
> didn't know.
> 
> The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, has honored
> its leading founder, William Pynchon, by naming a
> handsome history museum after him and in many other
> ways, but, though everybdy pays tribute to him  
> as a pioneer settler in the Agawam country, the fact
> he was the father of the meatpacking industry is
> always politely overlooked.
> 
> from a March 27, 1948,  New Yorker profile about
> another meatpacker, Henry Blackman Sell. p.32

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