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	William Pynchon
		William Pynchon was a merchant and trader, founder of the small colony of Springfield on the banks of the Connecticut River, and the author of the first book "banned in Boston."
		William Pynchon evidently did not mean to rely on the tender mercies of his former friends in Boston.
		Morison, Samuel Eliot, "William Pynchon, the Founder of Springfield," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, v.
	www.chicopee.mec.edu /Curriculum/History/Agawam/william_pynchon.htm (970 words)

	William Pynchon
		PYNCHON, William, colonist, born in Springfield, Essex, England, in 1590; died in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, 29 October, 1662.
		Pynchon sat in the legislature at Hartford, but he soon withdrew, in consequence of various differences, and received a commission from Massachusetts with authority to govern the colony, and subsequently it was shown that Agawam was included in the Massachusetts patent.
		Pynchon and his father and uncle were loyalists, and strongly opposed to the dismemberment of the British empire, but, after the war, became zealous supporters of the present constitution of the United States.
	www.famousamericans.net /williampynchon (1447 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have been circulated since the 1960s.
		Pynchon also wrote the liner notes for Nobody's Cool, the second album of indie rock band Lotion, in which he states that "rock and roll remains one of the last honorable callings, and a working band is a miracle of everyday life.
		Indeed, claims that Pynchon was the Unabomber or a sympathizer with the Waco Branch Davidians after the 1993 siege were upstaged in the mid-1990s by the invention of an elaborate rumor insinuating that Pynchon and one "Wanda Tinasky" were the same person.
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Thomas_Pynchon (5122 words)

	Pynchon, Thomas Criticism and Essays
		William Pynchon, the first American to bear the family surname, emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, where he wrote a controversial theological tract deemed heretical and publicly burned.
		Pynchon's great-grand-uncle and namesake, Reverend Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, was a noted nineteenth-century novelist and president of Trinity College.
		Pynchon's challenging fiction is characterized by intricate nonlinear plots rife with conspiratorial paranoia, abrupt spatio-temporal dislocations, epistemic conundrums, incessant punning, frequent allusions to history, science, technology, and mass culture, and flat characters with overtly symbolic names whose inability to find meaning bespeaks a quest theme in all of his work.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/pynchon-thomas-vol-123 (1722 words)

	William Pynchon
		William Pynchon and his family were among those willing to face the uncertainties of the wilderness in exchange for open space and closer proximity to a source of beaver fur.
		Pynchon selected a spot just north of the Enfield Falls, a spot where all travelers by water had to stop to negotiate the falls and to transship their cargoes from ocean-going vessels to smaller shallops.
		William Pynchon quickly learned the local Native American dialect, served as intermediary between the colonials and the Amerindians, and became the dominant trader of the area.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/conn.river/pynchon.html (1149 words)

	Chapter 6
		William Pynchon, and he was destined to play a part with those other boys, when they had all grown to manhood, in the making of Massachusetts.
		William Pynchon’s family were people of consequence in that section of England.
		William Pynchon’s scheme was considered a most daring one, for nobody knew just what were the risks and dangers of the "far west" along the unknown Connecticut.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/county/plymouth/books/bay/set1/chap6.htm (1121 words)

	William Pynchon - From various sources
		William's father, John went to school at New College (Oxford) with the Rev. John White of Dorset, and William was probably acquainted with him before becoming a member of this group of Adventures.
		William, fed up with the persecuting and intolerant spirit of the authorities in the Bay, returned to England, with his wife and son-in-law, Henry Semith, before his court date.
		William was the primary force responsible in the establishment of the first court in western Massachusetts and the administration of justice in the region until 1651.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nyterry/pynchon/pynchon.html (1725 words)

	Mass Moments: William Pynchon Buys Land for Springfield
		William Pynchon was one of the English Puritans who uprooted his family and joined the Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay in 1630.
		Pynchon chose to make his fortune fur-trapping, and to do that he needed to be near the source of the furs.
		William Pynchon was among the original 12 Puritan leaders who met in Cambridge, England, in August of 1629 to form the Massachusetts Bay Company.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=206 (964 words)

	E.J.W. Hinds: Thomas Pynchon, Wit, and the Work of the Supernatural
		Puns in Pynchon's novels transfigure the natural landscape, therefore, and not by virtue of demonic presences that hide in the history of postage stamps or in Nazi armies; instead, this supernatural effect comes from the will of language itself, language made palpable through visible and readable signs.
		A more exact resurrection of Pynchon's past would be the subtext of William Pynchon, first American ancestor, who came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630 to work as patentee and treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
		The fictional William Slothrop of this novel, in his Meritorious-Price-like heretical document, suggests that the Preterite are as necessary to Divine Plan as the Elect, for without the one, the other would cease to be Elect.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/54.1/articles/hinds.asp (6139 words)

	Nevins Family of Kingston MA and Canterbury CT - Person Page 265
		William Pynchon; came to New England with Winthrop Fleet with wife and four children.
		Settled at, Roxbury, MA, As per Springfield Library, William Pynchon was elected assistant and treasurer of the colon, and was instrumental in founding a new settlement at Roxbury before leading a small group of eight families to settle a plantation [Springfield, MA] 'over against Agawan' in the spring of 1636.
		William Pynchon; Wm Pynchon transfers all his lands in, Springfield, Hampden, MA, to his son, John Pynchon.
	ourwebsite.org /nevins/nevins-p/p265.shtml (877 words)

	Indian Deed
		William Pynchon was one of the original patenees named in the charter to the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England.
		In 1640, the name of the settlement was changed from Agawam to Springfield, in honor of Pynchon who was born in Springfield, England.
		Pynchon engaged extensively in the fur trading business and was instrumental in establishing the first commercial meat-packing company in North America, a business devoted almost exclusively to trade with the West Indies.
	www.registryofdeeds.co.hampden.ma.us /indian.htm (258 words)

	William Pynchon & Frances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		William was elected assistant and treasurer of the colony, and helped start a new settlement at Roxbury, MA.
		Pynchon, Henry Smith, Jehu Burr, and probably, some others, came to this place, called by the Indians Agawam, and began to build a house on the west side of the [Connecticut] river, on the Agawam, in the meadow, called from that fact House meadow.
		William ran his town pretty much as he pleased and had a good relationship with the Indians.
	members.cox.net /spartanshope/tree/famf448.html (548 words)

	Pynchon, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pynchon, John, c.1626-1703, American colonist and merchant, b.
		When his father returned to England in 1652, young Pynchon acquired a profitable business and an influential position in Springfield.
		Postmodern exhaustion: Thomas Pynchon's 'Vineland' and the aesthetic of the beautiful.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pynchonj.html (331 words)

	Pynchon - Biographical Sketch
		By 1533, John Pynchon, son of the Sheriff of London, had obtained the family coat of arms in Essex.
		In the early 20th century, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr., and Katherine Frances Bennett Pynchon, gave birth to three children: Judith, John, and Thomas Ruggles Jr., the boy who would be destined to become the greatest American writer since Herman Melville.
		Pynchon's only accessories were a cot, desk, and some homemade bookshelves with piggy banks and a book about swine on them, giving his working space an aura of monkish impermanence.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_biography.html (4438 words)

	Amazon.com: "William Pynchon": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Joseph Parsons was one of the first settlers of Springfield, arriving there in time to witness the deed that William Pynchon executed with the Indians, in 163 6.
		The family thus introduced is that of William Pynchon, the founder of the settlement, and one of the principal men of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay.
		William Pynchon, who led the first group of emigrants west into the Connecticut Valley to estab- lish Springfield in 1636,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/William-Pynchon (602 words)

	Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
		This tradition of expansion and migration repeatedly brought the Apache into conflict with the prior inhabitants of the new lands which they were entering Relations between the Apache and the more-settled groups that they met during these wanderings were generally strained, at best.
		William Pynchon is Thomas' colonial descendant, born in Springfield, Essex, England on 11 October 1590.
		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) [Available in the, ahem, HyperArts BookShop].
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/gravity/extra/ety.html (1862 words)

	William Pynchon and The Jewes Synagogue
		In this text, Pynchon -- a Puritan and an early American colonist -- argues that the synagogues in the Old Testament were true Churches of Jesus Christ.
		We see this in Pynchon's "response" to the "scholar", in which Pynchon argues that it was Jesus Christ -- in the form of the burning bush that spoke to Moses -- who ordained the first synagogues.
		Throughout his work, Pynchon continues to demonstrate this growing sense of identification with the Old Testament Jews by arguing that the old synagogues were true churches because they emphasized the teaching of the scripture.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/r/w/rwm170/pynchon.htm (644 words)

	William Pynchon — Infoplease.com
		The "scanty plot": Orwell, Pynchon, and the poetics of paranoia.(Critical Essay)
		Pynchon in the Poetic.(Thomas Pynchon, 'Mason & Dixon')
		Surviving the end: apocalypse, evolution, and entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0840621.html (272 words)

	The Massachusetts Historical Society \| Object of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		William Pynchon sailed to New England on the Ambrose, one of the ships of the Winthrop fleet.
		Pynchon chose the banks of the Connecticut River for his new home, beginning the first European settlement of what would become Springfield, Massachusetts.
		George Harwood, who signed the receipt for Pynchon's stock, was listed on the Massachusetts Bay Company's royal charter, and appears to have served as Treasurer of the Company, however, he was not among the early emigrants to Massachusetts.
	www.masshist.org /objects/2003july.cfm (285 words)

	That Which Has Seemingly Influenced Thomas Pynchon
		Pynchon allegedly "insisted upon stopping to get a pizza to calm his stomach" before proceeding in his intended revelation to Siegel that Pynchon and Siegel's wife had been having an affair.
		Pynchon coming to life with the tacos, not having had any Mexican food in a couple of weeks.
		Pynchon described his first short story, written in high school: "it was set during WWII, in the South Pacific, and centered on a theme of anti-idealism; he claims the story was written to show how 'a concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars'."
	www.pynchon.pomona.edu /bio/influences.html (1677 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Pynchon (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Pynchon c.1590–1662, American colonist and theologian, b.
		An original patentee and assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company, he migrated to America in 1630, where he helped found Roxbury and served as treasurer of the colony (1632–34).
		Relenting somewhat but refusing to retract all of his opinions, Pynchon left his property to his son John and other children and returned permanently (1652) to England.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PynchonW.html (249 words)

	pynchonoid: 07/04/2004 - 07/10/2004
		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).
		Though none of these authors directly suggests that the bonding may become genital (leaving that theme to Allan Ginsberg and William Burroughs), each constructs texts that call for decoding even while they insist that the subtextual eroticism is illusory.
		Balanced between desire and the desire to hide desire, the texts close in on themselves and create worlds of escape that deny their own foundations and thereby remain threatened by the rea l world that wants to collapse them.
	pynchonoid.blogspot.com /2004_07_04_pynchonoid_archive.html (1400 words)

	Pynchon On The Simpsons
		To his most ardent fans, Pynchon is nothing less than a prophet, a literary genius of such prodigious talent that every sentence he writes seems almost gospel, his least utterance a potential revelation.
		Some other fans on Pynchon-L, the mailing list frequented by many of Pynchon’s most persistent admirers and critics, were not pleased at the prospect of Pynchon landing in Bart and Lisa’s Springfield, accusing their hero of “selling out” to those corporate forces his books so strongly condemn.
		Pynchon’s stance has been interpreted as an act of rebellion against a certain type of literary criticism, championed by Sainte-Beuve, which interprets literary works through biographical study of the author.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/ketzan_simpsons.htm (1011 words)

	Golf Tournament is big success despite weather - The Reminder Online
		Pynchon Award recipients are nominated by members of the community, and are researched and chosen by unanimous decision of the Pynchon Trustees, who are the Ad Club's current and five most recent past presidents.
		The 2006 William Pynchon Award winners will be honored at a celebratory dinner and ceremony Nov. 15 at Chez Josef in Agawam.
		William Pynchon was a colonist born in Springfield, Essex, England in 1590 and was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts.
	www.thereminder.com /localnews/springfield/altruisticindividu (1058 words)

	The Ad Club of Western Massachusetts
		The Advertising Club confers the order of William Pynchon and the Pynchon Medal upon such citizens of western Massachusetts as, in the opinion of the Trustees of the Pynchon Award, have rendered distinguished public service.
		Recipients are nominated each year by members of the community, and are chosen by unanimous decision of the Pynchon Trustees.
		Vince is an advocate for the less fortunate both in his role as CEO and as a member of the community, fully dedicated to being a transforming, healing presence in our community.
	www.adclubwm.org /events_pynchon.html (1209 words)

	The Pynchon Court Record
		Joseph H. Smith, ed., Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts (1639-1702): The Pynchon Court Record, An Original Judges' Diary of the Administration of Justice in the Springfield Courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961).
		William Pynchon to execute the office of a magistrate in this our plantation of Agaam viz.
		She is fined 12d to the pore to be paid to Henry Smyth within a month: or if she doe not she is to sit 3 houers in the stocks.
	www.law.du.edu /russell/lh/alh/docs/pynchon.html (1161 words)

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