Individual Details

RESIDENCE: Was the Squire of Springfield, Essex, England. Came to New England with wife and children on the "Arbella" in Wintrop fleet March 1630. First went to Dorchester, Massachusetts. One of the founders of the church and town of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Founded Agawam Plantation, later renamed Springfield, Massachusetts for Pynchon's hometown in England. 28 September 1651 deeded property to son John and sons-in-law. Returned to England September, 1652. 1653 purchased an estate near Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England about three miles from Windsor, directly opposite Magna Charta Island in the Thames and the field of Runnymeade.

PUBLIC SERVICE: Assistant Treasurer, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630-1636. Treasurer of Massachusetts colony 1632-34. Names to govern new settlement of Connecticut 3 March, 1636. Member of Massachusetts board of Assistants 1642-51.

OCCUPATION: Fur trading business in Dorchester and Roxbury, Massachusetts.

PUBLISHED: The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, London, 1650.

EDUCATION: Oxford, Hart Hall, and Hertford College.

Religion: Puritan

BURIAL: Churchyard, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Birth	1590	Springfield, Essex, England
Death	29 Oct 1662	Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Burial	7 Nov 1662	Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Marriage		Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts - Frances ?

Spouse	Anna Andrew ( - 1630)
Child	Ann Pynchon ( - )
Child	Maj. John Pynchon ( - 1703)
Child	Mary Pynchon ( - 1657)
Child	Margaret Pynchon ( - 1653)

Spouse

Frances ? ( - 1657)

Father	John Pynchon Jr. ( - 1610)
Mother	Frances Brett ( - )
Sibling	Peter Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Annes Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Frances Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Jane Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Alice Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Isabell Pynchon ( - )
Sibling	Susanne Pynchon ( - )