Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Dominick LYNCH
Dominick Lynch - This is one of the most ancient and leading families in Galway, Ireland. Dominick Lynch in 1484 solicited and procured the charter of Richard III under which he caused his brother, Pierce, to be elected first mayor and was himself the second; and during a period of 169 years , 84 members of this family were mayors of Galway.
Tradition and some documents state that they were originally from Lintz, the capital of Upper Austria, from which they suppose the name to have derived; and that they claim descent from Charlemagne, the youngest son of the Emperor of that name. That sir Hugo de Lynch, a general under William the Conqueror, came to England with that monarch, in whose estimation he stood very high, and from whom he received great favors.
Dominich Lynch, lineally descended from the mayors of Galway, came to New York in the year 1785. He took up his residence in Broadway near the Battery next to the house of the Spanish Minister which adjoined the one in which General Washington resided in 1790, and an intimate and refined social intercourse was established between these three distinguished families.
From ' The families of New York' by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer.
Dominick Lynch, son of James and Anastasia (Joyce) Lynch, was born in Galway. He married his cousin, who was the daughter of Anthony Lynch, and by her had twelve children. The young couple started housekeeping in Bruges, Flanders, but thinking that the new world afforded many
attractions, they emigrated to New York, arriving June 20, 1785. The following notice is copied from the newspapers of the day, which records the marriage of the eldest son: "At Albany, February 21, 1805, by the Rev. Mr. Barclay, Mr. James Lynch of the city of New York, to Miss Janet Tillotson, daughter of Thomas Tillotson, Esq., Secretary of this State."
Another son married the daughter of John L. Norton, an Mr. Hone in his diary deplores the "death of Mrs. Henry Lynch, September 22, 1840," and says "she was one of the most beautiful women in New York." Her daughter who married Commodore Wilkes was also celebrated for her beauty. The fourth child of Mr. Lynch, and the first one born in this country, is still well remembered by his contemporaries as "a great wit and gourmand." His sister, Mrs. Pringle, wrote what was known as the "Peter Green letters." These epistles were frequently left mysteriously at the house of President Duer in Columbia College, and they were devoted to amusing anecdotes and descriptions of well-known people of the day. It
was many years before the author of these entertaining letters was discovered.
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