David Lynn (1640)

Birth: 1640 in Corkaugh, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
Death: 1727 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States

Father: Andrew Lynn (1605) (1605-1643)
Mother: Ann Blair (1610-)
Brother: William David Lynn (1650-1700)

Wife: Margaret Patton (1676-1727)
Sarah Linn (1670-1757)
William David Lynn (1672-1727)
Margaret Lynn (1690-1718)
MARGARET LYNN (1693-1773)
John Lynn (1695) (1695-1752)
Charles Lynn (1700-1795)

Lynn History

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 
70 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 
1668 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