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Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas Lynch 

• Hij is geboren op 5 augustus 1749.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1779 in At Sea, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Thomas Lynch en Elizabeth H. Allston

Gezin van Thomas Lynch

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Shubrick.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 mei 1772, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Notities over Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer, was born in Prince George Winyah Parish, on the North Santee river, South Carolina, Aug. 5, 1749; son of Thomas Lynch, delegate. He was educated in England, studying at Eton and taking his degree at Cambridge university, and pursued a course of law in the Temple, returning to America in 1772. He was married to a Miss Shubrick. On the outbreak of the Revolution he was commissioned captain in the 1st South Carolina provincials, Col. Christopher Gadsden, serving, 1775-1776, and on the death of his father in 1776, he was elected by the Provincial assembly a delegate t o the Continental congress as his successor and he arrived in Philadelphia in time to become one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence . Thomas Lynch, Jr., at the age of twenty-six, was the second youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence. His health, which had been broken by his services in the army, failed soon after, and he returned to his plantation in South Carolina in 1777. By advice of his physician he undertook the sea voyage to the Island of St. Eustatius, W. I., in 1779, intending to take passage from there for the south of France. The vessel in which he sailed from Charles ton was never heard from after being sighted when four days out of port in 1779.

With the loss of Thomas Lynch, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Shubrick, at sea and a married which was unfruitful, a political dynasty that straddled both banks of the Santee snuffed out when barely in its prime.
RIN: MH:N1172

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