. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Old Fort(see illustration), inconsequence of fur-nishing a refuge tothe inhabitants ofSpringfield whenthat town was at-tacked and burnedby the Indians inKing Philips ;. andsustaining a siege while Pynehon himself was ab-sent in command of the troops at Hadley. Hevisited England several times in connection withhis fathers estates, and left an immense landedproperty.—Johns great-grandson, Charles, physi-cian, b. in Springfield, 31 Jan., 1719; d. there, 9Aug., 1783. was a surgeon in the Massachusettsregiments engaged in the Fren
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Old Fort(see illustration), inconsequence of fur-nishing a refuge tothe inhabitants ofSpringfield whenthat town was at-tacked and burnedby the Indians inKing Philips ;. andsustaining a siege while Pynehon himself was ab-sent in command of the troops at Hadley. Hevisited England several times in connection withhis fathers estates, and left an immense landedproperty.—Johns great-grandson, Charles, physi-cian, b. in Springfield, 31 Jan., 1719; d. there, 9Aug., 1783. was a surgeon in the Massachusettsregiments engaged in the French and English warsin 1745 and 1755, was present at the capture ofLouisburg by the provincial troops, and engagedin the expedition against Crown Point. He wasan intimate friend of Col. Ephraim Williams, thefounder of Williams college, and was with himwhen he fell at the first fire at the battle of LakeGeorge. Dr. Pynchon was one of the two surgeonswho treated Baron Dieskau when he was woundedand taken prisoner by the English in the same bat-. tie.—Another great-grandson, William, lawyer, Springfield, 12 Dec., 1723 ; d. in Salem, 14 March,1789, was graduated at Harvard in 1743, and be-came an eminent lawyer and advocate and a well-known instructor in jurisprudence. He was theauthor of a diary of remarkable interest, coveringthe entire period of the American Revolution.—Williams brother, Joseph, merchant, b. in Spring-field, 30 Oct., 1737; d. in Guilford, Conn., 23 Nov.,171)4. was graduated at Yale in 1757, and was oneof the projectors of the settlement of Shelburne,Nova Scotia. During the latter part of his life hewas devoted to scientific pursuits.—Josephs son,Thomas Ruggles, physician, b. in Guilford,Conn., in 1760; d. there. 10 Sept., 1796, was educated in New York, and during the Revolutionpursued his medical studies in the hospitals ofthe English army in that city. After the warhe returned to Guilford, where he became cele-brated as a physician and surgeon. Dr.
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