vital records of Springfield....starting with 1640 !! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/records/vr.html -- early Springfield and Pynchon http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html -- marriage records starting 1774 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/w_spfld/records/marriages.html -- Surnames........bios ! http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/gene/bios_index.html -- Cynthia