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-Birth: 1640 in Corkaugh, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland<br>
-Death: 1727 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States<br>
-Father: [[Andrew Lynn (1605)]] (1605-1643)<br>
-Mother: Ann Blair (1610-)<br>
-Brother: William David Lynn (1650-1700)<br>
-Wife: Margaret Patton (1676-1727)<br>
-Sarah Linn (1670-1757)<br>
-William David Lynn (1672-1727)<br>
-Margaret Lynn (1690-1718)<br>
-MARGARET LYNN (1693-1773)<br>
-[[John Lynn (1695)]] (1695-1752)<br>
-Charles Lynn (1700-1795)<br>
-==Lynn History==
-<pre>
-From: Barb Shave <bjshave@shaw.ca>
-Subject: Laird Lynns
-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:43:42 -0800
-References: <200601101800.k0AI0I86029046@lists5.rootsweb.com>
-Gads , the recent letters re: the Lairds of Loch Lynn are following flights
-of fancy and I have been as guilty of this as anyone. I too am of this line
-and would dearly love to think I was descended from Lairds (Lords) of
-Scotland but there is no substance whatsoever to these claims.
-Our branch of the family came from the Lowland County of Ayreshire Scotland
-and sadly, there is no Loch Lynn/or Linnhe by any spelling on the map of
-this county. Perhaps there was once such a loch (lake), but there were no
-Lynn Lairds because the Ayreshire land upon which we Lynns toiled was owned
-by the Boyds. We Lynns were Boyd serfs and we wore the Boyd tartan to
-demonstrate our loyalty. Accordingly we dutifully we followed the Boyds
-(our clan) as British loyalists and therefore don't even have the
-distinction of being religious nationalists like those gritty highlanders.
-While there is indeed a Loch Lynn/Linnhe in the highlands in the County of
-Inverness, there is no history of any "Lynn Lairds" of this place because
-the lake wasn't even given its present name until the 18th Century.
-Don't expect to find tributes to the Lynns in Scottish histories. We left
-Scotland for Plantation Ulster in the 17th century and from thence to the
-new world in the early 18th so we were long gone before the devastating
-defeat of the highlanders at the Battle of Culladen Moor in 1746. Besides
-we Lynns were lowlanders, not highlanders and we would have been on the side
-of the British. The winning British were the hated oppressors of the famous
-northen clans.
-So there is not much in our Scottish Lynn history about which to romanticize
-and I am truly sorry to be the one to prick illusion balloons. But you and
-I are not the first Lynns get carried away. The notions of nobility seem to
-have originated with the reference to "my father, the Laird of Loch Lynn,"
-in the diary of Margaret Lynn Lewis (w/o John Lewis, founder of Augusta Co
-VA) Sadly, the experts on such things believe this diary to be a total
-fraud. Lynn historians have nevertheless perpetuated and embellished the
-fancy over the years. Too bad, all this.
-My most recent source of bad news is THE FAMILY OF JOHN LEWIS, PIONEER;
-Irvin Frazier, Mark W. Cowell Jr. and Lewis F. Fisher; Fisher Publications
-Inc.; San Antonio, Texas, 1985.
-I dearly hope that some one will come up with definitive proof of lofty
-beginnings for us Lynns. Until then, however, we must each qualify our
-claims lest others regard our web-postings as holy writ and pass on false
-embellishments to succeeding generations.
-Barb in BC
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-From: Lynneage@aol.com
-Subject: Re: [LYNN-ROOTS] Laird Lynns
-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:50:46 EST
-Barb, I appreciate your caution. Words spoken or written in haste are often
-also in error. However, there actually were Lairds of Lynn who owned the
-barony of Lynn surrounding the village of Dalry, Ayrshire and, for a period of
-at least 216 years, a piece of property just south of Castle Dundonald called
-Highlees. I've spent countless hours researching (among other records) some
-volumes of Scottish Record Society Publications for Lynns and Linns.
-Among them is a volume of the Hunter Family Papers, some of which reveal that
-the Lords of Lynn in Ayrshire chartered Highlees to the Hunters of Hunterstoun
-"for counsel rendered and to be rendered."
-Yes, the Lynns of Ayrshire were associated with Clan Boyd, but they came
-into property of their own, reputedly acquired from the De Morvilles. The
-earliest chief of this family was "Andrew Lyn, lord (laird) of that Ilk," who
-executed the original charter to the Hunters "the last day of February (fourteen
-hundred) and fifty-two." The charter is torn where the words "fourteen
-hundred" would appear, but the charter was followed by an undamaged sasine dated
-March 5, 1453. In all, there are nearly 20 documents dated between 1452 and
-relating to the Lynns of that Ilk and their ownership of Highlees.
-Also, one Robert Boyd fought for Robert the Bruce and was subsequently
-knighted by him. It is a mistake to place all lowlanders on the side of the
-British. While Robert Boyd did sign the 1296 Ragman Roll swearing loyalty to
-"Longshanks," England's Edward I, so did William Wallace's uncle Sir Reginald
-Crawford and Robert the Bruce himself. Political "necessities" have always been
-the bane of society, and loyalties sworn under duress were and are often
-later rescinded.
-I am preparing to publish a book on the Lynns and Linns of Scotland which
-will highlight the Lords of Lynn of Ayrshire, as well as other families and
-individuals in Scotland named Lynn and Linn. It will also include an
-interesting, old Ayrshire folktale about one of the Lords of Lynn, which tale was first
-put in print in 1889. I hope to have my book available by spring or early
-summer.
-Loretta Lynn Layman
-</pre>

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