Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
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WILLIAM PYNCHEON, Roxbury, an Assist. came in the fleet with Winthrop
1630, had been assoc. with the patentees, 1628, when purchased from the
Plymouth company that year and named to office by the royal charter of 4
Mar. 1629; brought four children Ann, Mary, John, and Margaret, with
their mother says the rector of Roxbury church of who his name is first.
His widow died in the first
season, before return of the ship in whence they came; and after some
years he married Frances Sanford, a grave matron of the church of
Dorchester, and a. 1636, rem. to found the town of Springfield, so named,
probably from the place of his resided near Chelmsford in Old England.
He was a man of great enterprise, and highly honored as Treasure, before
his leaving the seacoast, and as Couns. after, until his publication of
the dangerous judgment as to religion, whom he had formed 30 yrs. bef.
For this he suffered indignity in 1651, when his book was by our
gove****m. ordered to be burned, and lest the same form of purificat.
might reach to the author, he went home, as
more freedom was enjoyed in his native land See the letter, in full, to
Sir H. Vane, from our Gov. Endicott and his council of Assist. in 3 Mass.
Hist. Coll. I. 35. At Wraisbury, on the Thames, near famous Runnymede, in
Co. Bucks, he d. Oct. 1662, in 72d or 74th yr. his wife having died there
10 Oct. 1657.
Source: Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers, Volume 3, page
498
_Edmund STAFFORD ____+
| (1377 - 1403) m 1398
_Humphrey STAFFORD __|
| (1402 - 1460) |
| |_Anne PLANTAGENET ___+
| (1383 - 1438) m 1398
|
|--Henry STAFFORD
| (1433 - 1481)
| _Ralph de NEVILLE ___+
| | (1364 - 1425) m 1396
|_Anne NEVILLE _______|
(1411 - 1480) |
|_Joan de BEAUFORT ___+
(1375 - 1440) m 1396
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