Tuesday, January 14, 2025
ESSAY - EDWARD LYNCH MY ANCESTOR? I THINK NOT.
Here's ONE reason I don't get my news from social media...Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Signer Of The Declaration
Of Independence.
"John Thomas Edward Lynch, Jr, Capt signer of Declaration of Independence, Delegate to Continental Congress 1776 Capt in First South Carolina Regiment"
And, they have gone on to show him married to a lady named Margaret Allison and, with her, the father of several children.
Problem is, that Lynch, specifically, Thomas Lynch, Jr., who was the ONLY Lynch to sign the Declaration of Independence, died childless. He AND his wife, Elizabeth Shubrick, NOT Ms. Allison, were lost at sea... a couple of years BEFORE their supposed progeny could have been conceived... much less born.
Now, the historical data is there for ANYBODY to read. The logic and math is simple enough for ANYBODY to figure out... yet...
Many people are not only proudly proclaiming this patently incorrect data as proof of their esteemed ancestry, BUT, since they are on Ancestry.com, PAYING for the privilege, AND, in the meantime, failing to find out who their ancestors REALLY are.
My ancestor is named Edward Lynch (I think), and I don't know a whole lot about him yet, except that HE seems to have been married to Margaret Allison. But, something I DO know is that while he did NOT sign the Declaration of Independence, he, and his family DID help build America, and I'm good with that.
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Labels: ancestry, donovan baldwin, edward lynch, genealogy, signer of the declaration of independence
