Pynchons--THE TREE!!

[Bekah]

I  have totally been there and done that with genealogy,  Jill,  and  
your work on the Pynchon tree is much appreciated.

My own tree goes back to the 17th century in several branches and  
even the 15th (I think!)  in one.  I couldn't go too much side-ways  
because I got so distracted.   A mere curiosity can easily develop  
into an obsessive and time-consuming passion due to the detective  
aspect.  My claim to fame was that I "found" my great-great  
grandmother's ancestry all written up in the  parish books of  
Svensrud,  Norway,   and I investigated a great-great-great (?)  
uncle's involvement and death in the US Civil War.

Bekah

On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:26 PM, grladams at teleport.com wrote:

> 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:
> -----------------
> 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!
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology -
> http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE
>
>
>

homepage.mac.com/bekker2/Menu40.html

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20080329/8472c771/attachment-0001.html>