LYNCH, Thomas, Jr., (son of Thomas Lynch), a Delegate from South Carolina; born in Prince George's Parish, Winyah, S.C., August 5, 1749; educated at Eton and Cambridge, England, and studied law at the Middle Temple in London, 1764-1772; returned to America in 1772; became a planter on the North Santee River; member of the First and Second Provincial Congresses of South Carolina 1774-1776; member of the constitutional committee in 1776; member of the South Carolina state general assembly in 1776; served in the Revolutionary War as a captain in the First South Carolina Regiment, subsequently of the Continental Line from June 1775 until his election as a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress on February 1, 1776; Delegate to the Second Continental Congress, 1776; signed the Declaration of Independence; did not seek reelection to the Continental Congress owing to ill health; embarked on an ocean voyage to France in 1779 and was lost at sea in that year.
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[ Top ]Salley, Alexander Samuel. Delegates to the Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774-1789. Columbia, S.C.: Printed for the Commission by the State Company, 1927.
