signers of the Declaration

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Short biographies on each of the 56 Declaration signers


Thomas Lynch Jr.

1749-1779

Representing South Carolina at the Continental Congress

Lynch
by Ole Erekson, Engraver, c1876, Library of Congress
Born:August 5, 1749
Birthplace:Winyah, South Carolina
Education:Graduated Cambridge University. (Lawyer)
Work:Captain of a South Carolina Regimental Company, 1775; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776.
Died:ca. 1779

Thomas Lynch, Jr., was born in South Carolina on August 5, 1749. He received an education in England and graduated with honors at Cambridge. He studied law in London and then returned home in 1772. He was politically engaged as soon as he returned home, and was commissioned a company commander in the South Carolina regiment in 1775. Soon afterward he was elected to a seat in the Continental Congress. He fell ill shortly after signing the Declaration and retired from the Congress. At the close of 1779 he and his wife sailed for the West Indies. The ship disappeared and there is no record of his life after.


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