Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

SPRINGFIELD. 1636-1886. 2(j3
tlt'cude (1757) we find Josiah Dwight being called to the niodenitor-
sliip, and figuring as one of the foremost citizens.
We have to record the death, in 1741, of Col. William Pynchon,
justice of the Court of Common Pleas. His wife was Katharine
Brewer, daughter of Rev. Daniel Brewer and sister of Eunice Brewer,
who had become the wife of Rev. Robert Breck. Other deaths were
Col. John Pynchon, clerk of courts, in 1742 ; Dea. Henry Burt, in
174)^; and of Dea. Nathaniel Church, in 17G1. Colonel Pynchon's
wife was the daughter of Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Westfield.