Pynchons--THE TREE!!

[grladams at teleport.com]

It remains weirdly engrossing to do this tree. New England Historic
Genealogical Society was helpful, and I communicated with the people at
NEHGS to paraphrase part of their entry, since the text on
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guest
s/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp before and after William Lyon Pynchon is
kind of cluttered. The vheissu.info website also has a small family
genealogy. There are at least two differences between vheissu and my tree.
I have found Charles MD who married Anna Dwight to be decended from Phoebe
Sexton and Colonel John b 1674 d 1742, whereas the vheissu site has him
descended from William Pynchon and Catherine Brewer. Anna Dwight's family
are a fancy muckety bunch and so theirs is an exhaustively documented
family --so I'm going with the histories of the Dwights on google books.
Also the vheissu's site instructs it's readers not to pay much attention to
Colonel John Jr's (vheissu calls John III) and Bathshua Taylor line.. But,
that is the line from which would come founders of Pynchon & Co. 

I realize I'll have to put this down soon as it's driving me bonkers.

And there were lines who did move west, west to Wisconsin, Calif., even
Oregon, such as the descendents of Captain George and Hanna Bartlett, the
Walter Pynchon line, one in that line who ends up as a postmaster (get it?
Postmaster?) general in Gresham and is buried at the Pioneer cemetery near
my home... It is unlikely that our author knows details about his 5th and
6th cousins, but their lives would unfold like so many characters, moving
west, away from their elect predecessors, lines I could gloss as the "Esq.
lines" and others "businessmen" and others "trades". Several stood up for
beliefs, above land and inheritance, who would instead keep freedom of
association and religion and cede land to brothers and uncles-- land that
would eventually get divided anyway... It was a surprise to learn about
Joseph the father of Thomas Ruggles I, having been described as a
Sandemanian and thus learning about the Sandemanian sect, and realizing
more fully therefore his necessary loyalist leanings. There were those who
were slower to move, ones who remained in Springfield until their brilliant
children possibly could not wait to leave, possibly feeling the suffocation
of a family so meritorious and notorious, that it would only be upon
leaving that one can find oneself.

And there is are a couple of missing links. I'm bugged that I can't find a
birth and death date for William Lyon Pynchon, so if there are any records
at Union College that have at least his birth year, that would be cool.
Also I found a fugitive who is probably connected to this family, named
William Pynchon, b ~1807 in Massachussets who was in a household in Madison
Wis, described as a teamster. This would be fascinating, to imagine a union
(possibly activist) member and find a trail connecting him back to the rest
of this tree.

Jill

Original Message:
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From: Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:08:52 -0500
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Pynchons--THE TREE!!


nicely done!

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