. Les fondateurs ; portraits de personnes nées à l'étranger qui est venu pour les colonies en Amérique du Nord avant l'année 1701, avec une introduction biographique, décrit et commente les portraits. en son âge était censée être un hundredyears et trois mois, son portrait a été peint, et c'est encore 447 conservé à la chambres de l'HistoricalSociety au Massachusetts. Au cours de sa vieillesse elle a été visité par les curieux, et aimait son importance. N'importe quel étudiant de Harvard whocould fumer une pipe avec elle, et qu'écouter son histoire ofthat quête mémorable du printemps, était un visiteur bienvenue.Sans doute l'histoire

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. The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits. en her age was supposed to be one hundredyears and three months, her portrait was painted, and it is 447 still preserved at the rooms of the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety. During her old age she was visited by the curious, and enjoyed her prominence. Any Harvard student whocould smoke a pipe with her, and would listen to her tale ofthat momentous quest of the spring, was a welcome visitor.Doubtless the story added detail with the years, but theessentials may well be true. She died on Monday, 6 De-cember, 1725, in her one hundred and fifth ( ?) year, andwas buried on Thursday, borne to the grave by six dis-tinguished men, including Chief Justice Sewall. She hadtwelve children; and one hundred and thirty descendantssurvived her for the upbuilding of Boston. She became amother for the last time in 1668, when her child, David, was born, and the same year she became a grandmother, when the wife of her oldest son, John, gave birth to adaughter. Notes and Queries, 2 August, 1913, page 94. 448. ANNE POLLARDi62i(?)-i725 (449) THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTa«, LPNOX William Pynchon, author of The Meritorious Priceof Our Redemption, was born in 1590, probably atSpringfield, Essex, although the family had been associatedfor centuries with the neighboring town of Writtle, wherehis father, John, and cousins. Sir Edward Pynchon and theCountess of Portland, had many kinsmen. His grand-mother, Mrs. Jane Pynchon, later wife of the distinguishedstatesman and scholar, Thomas Wilson, LL.D., had re-cently died, and Janes father, a brutal courtier underHenry VII, had long ago lost his head on Tower Hill.There was also a close kinship with a lovelier character, Dorothy Osborne, of Chicksands, whose letters still sur-vive. Pynchon was sent at the age of eleven to Oxford, and returned, to serve as churchwarde

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