William Pynchon

William Pynchon (* October 11, 1590, † October 29, 1662 ) was at times the Deputy Finance Officer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

He became known mainly through the creation of Springfield, Massachusetts, which he named after his hometown in England. Later he returned to his homeland, where he died in 1662.

In 1650 he published in London the tract The Meritorious Price of our Redemption, in which he presented the Calvinist doctrine of predestination in question. On his return to Boston he was therefore accused of heresy; his writing is one of the first books that were banned on American soil and publicly burned. His descendant, the author Thomas Pynchon, processed this incident in 1973 in his major work The ends of the parabola.

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• Briton
• Born in 1590
• Died in 1662
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