William
Pynchon was
born in England in 1590.A Puritan,
he emigrated to the Massachusetts Colony
in 1630 and became involved in fur trading. In 1635 he was appointed
as governor of a new settlement in Massachusetts (Springfield). He
also served as one of Connecticut's magistrates (1636-37) but left
the post after a conflict with Thomas Hooker.
By the time Pynchon died in Springfield in 1662 he was one of the
richest men in New England.
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