. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Mary Pynchon. Hers is the first girls name of any we knowamong the very first settlers and we could wish that more was known about her. Whenshe came from England she wasabout the age of the girl in thispicture. Soon after she had crossedthe ocean to the New World herown mother died and it was afterher father had married again thatshe came to Springfield. As shegrew into girlhood so attractivewas she, that when she was butfifteen years of age Eliz
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Mary Pynchon. Hers is the first girls name of any we knowamong the very first settlers and we could wish that more was known about her. Whenshe came from England she wasabout the age of the girl in thispicture. Soon after she had crossedthe ocean to the New World herown mother died and it was afterher father had married again thatshe came to Springfield. As shegrew into girlhood so attractivewas she, that when she was butfifteen years of age Elizur Hol-yoke of Hartford asked for her tobe his wife. Her father giving his consent, young Holyokeremoved to Springfield and they lived happily together forseventeen years until her death. In Hollands story The Bay Path, there is much thatis imaginary about Mary Pynchon, but aside from what is heretold, scarcely anything more is known than is contained onthe stone at her grave in the cemetery: She that lies here was, while she stood,A very glory of womanhood. It was for either her husband or her son. Captain Holyoke,that the mountain was Upon a bank of violets sweet. Shakespeare. 52 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD hli But the hopes of the town might well have been placed onJohn Pynchon, who had many of his fathers qualities ofcharacter and some others that were equally useful. Thoughborn in England, he was but a boy when, after the long oceanvoyage, he first saw the New World, and he grew up truly anAmerican. Perhaps he could not, like his father, read theBible in the original Hebrew; and he may have known nothingof Latin and Greek, all ofwhich William Pynchon ^i ? had learned at the Uni-versity of Oxford. Itmay be, too, that hisfather had taught himsomething of these is good reason forsupposing that he wasstudious as a boy andwhen he became a youngman he was so much of ascholar that he was some-times expected to preacha sermon of his own writ-ing, in the years whent
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