Dr. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

1760 - 1796  (36 years)

• Name	Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	23 May 1760	Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Sep 1796	Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I44175	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	Joseph Pynchon,   b. 30 Oct 1737, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 25 Nov 1794, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Sarah Ruggles
  Marriage	12 Jul 1759	Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Family ID	F25799	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Tomlinson   d. 11 Oct 1794, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut
  Marriage	30 Sep 1783  [1]
  Children	+ 1. William Henry Ruggles Pynchon,   b. 16 Feb 1786   d. 11 Dec 1831 (Age 45 years)
  Family ID	F25800	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He was educated as a physician and surgeon at New York and Philadelphia, and was one of the early members of the New Haven County Medical Society and the Connecticut Medical Society.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5932] Robert Charles Anderson, "The Literary Pedigree of the Author Thomas Pynchon." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 146:165, 2015.