John Pynchon
Magistrate, soldier and landholder of Springfield, Massachusetts, addressed as The Worshipful. Probably the only son of William Pynchon, he came over with his father at five, married Amy Wyllys in 1645, and stayed when his father went home in 1652; he was an Assistant for twenty-one years and helped found Northampton, Westfield and Hadley. He died in 1702/3. Probably the father of Mary (Pynchon) Whiting.
Life
- 1625
- 1645Married Amy Wyllys30 Oct 1645
- 1702Died17 Jan 1702/3, Springfield, Massachusetts
"aet. 76" (Dwight).
Family
- Father
- William Pynchoncompiledprobable
Sources
- Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. (New York, 1874)
- Wikipedia, "William Pynchon"
- Reasoning:
research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md
- Mother
- Anna Andrew
William Pynchon's first wife, who died at Roxbury in 1630; Dwight says "His wife, whose name is unknown to the author, d. in 1630," and that all his children were hers. The name is WikiTree's. Not researched further.
- Spouse
- Amy Wyllyscompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Father of Mary (Pynchon) Whiting, and magistrate, soldier and landholder of Springfield. The only son of William Pynchon, he “came to this country with his father when but 5 years old,” married Amy, the daughter of Gov. George Wyllys of Hartford, in 1645, and stayed when his father went home to England in 1652. Dwight: “He was a man of very superior talents, character and social position. He represented the town of Springfield in the General Court in 1659, ’62 and ’63, and was for 21 years (1665-86) an ‘Assistant’ in it. He was spoken of and addressed by the title of ‘The Worshipful.’” From 1652 to 1660 he was one of the three commissioners who governed Springfield (with Deacon Samuel Chapin and Elizur Holyoke), and from 1692 to 1702 Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Hampshire County. “He was a large farmer and landholder, and owned several saw-mills and grist-mills”; “In King Philip’s war, in 1675, his brick house, built in 1660, was used as a fort for defense” (source).
He carried his father’s settlements up the river, “founding Northampton, Westfield, Hadley, and other towns” (source), and in 1669 he deeded land in Springfield to Japhet Chapin, the son of his fellow magistrate (source). His children were Joseph (1646-1682), a Harvard-trained physician who died unmarried; Col. John (1647-1721); Mary (b. 1650), who married Joseph Whiting; William (1653-1674); and Mehitable (1661-1663). He died at Springfield on 17 Jan 1702/3, aged 76, four years after Amy.
Research: research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md.