Person:David Lynn (1)

There is no evidence that David was a son of Andrew Lynn and Ann Blair. First, Andrew lived and died in Ayrshire, Scotland leaving not one bit of evidence that he ever set foot in Ireland. Second, there is no record of David's birth, marriage, death, or ownership of property in Ayrshire. Third, when Andrew died, his one remaining property went not to David or another Lynn but to William Blair, presumably a relative of Andrew's wife, Ann Blair ("Some Family Papers of the Hunters of Hunterston", Edit. M. S. Shaw, W. S., Edinburgh (1925) at p. 61).

According to the web page appalachian home.tripod.com, David was David Cameron, "Laird of Loch Linnhe" in Scotland. To the contrary, there are numerous historic Scottish records of the laird of Lynn or Linn but not one to a laird of Loch Lynn. In fact, the lairds of Lynn had their minor barony in Dalry, Ayrshire, where there is no loch at all; and Loch Linnhe is not in Ayrshire but in Argyll. Thus, the appellation "Laird of Loch Lynn" is a gross error.

Incidentally, the Lairds of Lynn in Dalry, Cunningham District, Ayrshire, Scotland were neither a clan nor a sept of a clan. The name Lynn or Linn, etc. is not included in any reputable published list or history of Scottish clans; e.g., "Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland", "The Highland Clans: the Dynastic Origins, Chiefs, and Background of the Clans and of Some Other Families Connected with Highland History", "Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland`", "The History of Scotland - Its Highlands, Regiments and Clans", "Sketches of the Clans of Scotland", or "The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland". The Genforum.com post that claims clan membership is mistaken.

As to David Lynn born 1640 in Corkaugh, County Donegal ... While Andrew, the last laird of Lynn, lived out his days in Scotland, three other Scottish Lynns had arrived in Ulster in or very near the very year Andrew was born. Furthermore, one of the three had land in County Donegal in 1604, and his Donegal land was later inherited by nephews William Lynn and David Lynn (presumably sons of one or another of the other two Scottish Lynn settlers). It is highly probable that this David Lynn was a son of one of the inheritors. See : the chart at http://www.house-of-lynn.com/Map_Lynn_Lands_of_Londonderry_Donegal_Tyrone.html

While there are reports that David or William David Lynn was of the Presbyterian faith and was forced to flee Scotland for Ulster, Ireland due to religious persecution, the Lynns in fact went to Ulster in the earliest years of the "Ulster Plantation" (i.e., 1604-1616) as a result of the family's association with Scotland's Boyds of Kilmarnock and Earl of Abercorn. The first plantation of Ulster was not driven by religious persecution but by King James's desire to populate Ulster with Protestants, be they Presbyterian or another Protestant religion. See : http://www.house-of-lynn.com/Lynns_of_Londonderry_Donegal_Tyrone.html

He was known as David of Lynn. He's also been called William David Lynn. He and Unknown wife had the following children:

• -Sarah Lynn b: Abt 1670 in Springfield Manor, Clondevaddock Parish, Barony Of Kilmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland married Henry Patton. Died Newton Limavady,Ulster,Donegal Co, Ireland.

• -William Lynn b: Abt 1672, place unproven. Married Margaret Patton. Died 1727-9 in Virginia, USA

NOTE: The following reference is incorrect! Margaret Lynn, wife of John Lewis was born in 1693, and has been identified as the daughter of William Lynn (above), and granddaughter of David Lynn (not his daughter).

• -Margaret Lynn b: betw 1674-1680 (this date is also incorrect, Margaret was born in 1693, too late to have been David's daughter) in Kilmacrenan, Donegal. Married John Lewis. Died 1773-1775 at Bellefonte, Augusta County, Virginia, USA

There is a William Lyne in the 1654 survey of Ulster living in the parish of Clondevaddock, where the Pattons lived at Croaghan House, Tamney. I understand his father was Andrew Lynn born in Scotland c. 1620. Again, however, there is no evidence that Andrew Lynn had any children. Furthermore, in fact, when he died, his property went to a Blair, presumably a relative of his wife, Ann Blair. Finally, as mentioned above in connection with the Ulster Plantation, the Lynns had arrived in County Donegal the year before Andrew was even born.

These references to Lines in Ayrshire include Andrew Linn who gave “sasine” of lands of Highless [Highlees] to the Laird of Hunterston in 1452 AD, Jhone of Leyn who witnessed a summons to court in 1495 AD, and Elizabeth (Bessie) Lyn, heiress of David Lyn, who is noted in receiving her father's estate in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. (Source: The Surnames of Scotland, by George F. Black, New York Public Library, Actor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundation, 1946, pp. 446 -447)

See also : http://www.house-of-lynn.com/Lynn_of_that_Ilk.html

1.   1677 : Highlees, Ayrshire granted to the Hunters not by a Lynn but by William Blair, in "Some Family Papers of the Hunters of Hunterston", Edit. M. S. Shaw, W. S., Edinburgh (1925)
   pp. 3-4, 7-10, 28, 29, 46, 51, 52, 61, 64.

   George Peabody Library, Baltimore, MD

2.   William Lynne in Londonderry in 1604-5 as Evidenced by a 1775 Deed, in Public Record Office of Northern Ireland : Ref.

   On "27 October in the 38th year of reign by James" [James I and VI; i.e., 1604-5], William Lynne of Londonderry was conveyed the County Tyrone property of Cloghogle.
   https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx : Search for Ref. # T2541/IA/2/1/47 and see par. 7 of "Description".

3.   1609 Patent Rolls of James I at Lifford, County Donegal.

   William Lynn is the 1609 lessee of a portion of Moville Parish, County Donegal.
   http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-Inquistion_at_Lifford.html : Search for Lynn.

4.   William Lynn, Holder of Acreage in County Donegal, in "An Historical Account of the Plantation of Ulster at the Commencement of the Seventeenth Century 1608-1620", Rev. George Hill, Belfast (1877)
   525-6; also, fn. 215.

   "William Lynn (215) hath 108 acres called Caroreagh, and 240 acres called Laugaurack [Lurganbrack] ... This settler is stated, in an inquisition, of 1635, to be the holder of 240 acres called Largavracke. He died in 1633 [Irish will index indicates ca. 1628], and was succeeded by his nephew, also named William Lynn ... who was eleven years of age at the time of his uncle's death."
   https://archive.org/stream/anhistoricalacc00hillgoog#page/n536/mode/1up/search/Lynn

5.   1654 Civil Survey of County Donegal, in "The Civil Survey of 1654, Donegal".

   "William Lyne & David Lyne Scotts Protestants" held acreage not only in Carrowreagh and Largebreake [Lurganbrack] but also in Bunintyne [Bunnaton].
   http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ua-free-CivilSurvey1654.html : Search for Lyne