Pynchon genealogy

[Paul Mackin]

This miight help in understanding why the author is  sometimes  
called  T. R. Pynchon Jr. and his father Sr, instead of V and IV,  
respectively?  Could this be because V. and IV are not in the same  
direct line as II and III and that at the time IV was named the  
immediate family was not yet aware of earlier T. R. Pynchons,  were  
still unaware in 1937 when V came along?

Might be something else entirely. I'v e never paid much attention to  
any of this.

By the way if my count is right the author is great great great great  
great great great grandson of William.

On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 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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