Margaret LYNN

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lynn-86 Margaret (Lynn) Lewis was the wife of Staunton founder Colonel John Lewis, the mother of notable Virginia pioneers, and the grandmother of American patriots. Otherwise, Margaret’s greatest prominence - unfortunately - is that of being the subject of a literary and historical/genealogical hoax which has led many a Lynn and Lewis genealogist up a non-existent family tree. In January 1869, the North Carolina historical magazine Land We Love published “The Valley Manuscript”. The manuscript claimed to be part of "The Common-Place Book of me Margaret Lewis, nee Lynn, of Loch Lynn, Scotland". One might ask, first, why such an historical document would be submitted to a North Carolina magazine and not to one in the very State where the family had its prominence. But the article entices the reader with a "farewell to the bonny loch and knowes of Lynn" and to "Loch Lynn and its rock-crowned summit, and purple heather". ["Knowe" is the Scots word for hill.] What genealogist of Scottish descent would not be drawn in by such romantic language? “The Valley Manuscript” also mentions certain historical events in the lives of the Lewis family. Included are the victory of Margaret’s son Andrew and the death of her son Charles in the 1774 battle with Chief Cornstalk of Point Pleasant, as well as the participation of three Lewis grandsons, near the end of the Revolutionary War, in the successful defense of Staunton. If the article’s place of publication is not enough to cast doubt on its authenticity, the fact that the real Margaret (Lynn) Lewis died before these events even occurred proves that she was not its true author. However, the third nail in the coffin of “The Valley Manuscript” is a 1948 Richmond Times-Dispatch news article. That article discusses the points mentioned above and includes part of an interview with Judge Lunsford L. Lewis, 3rd-great-grandson of John and Margaret (Lynn) Lewis. Judge Lewis decried “The Manuscript”, saying “[It] is pure fiction; its spuriousness is apparent on its face, yet very many persons have been deceived by it.” Who then is the true author of this fictional diary? The manuscript was submitted to the North Carolina magazine Land We Love by Fanny Fielding, who cleverly introduced it as being "from a collection of archives known in our household", attempting to create the impression that it had been handed down in her family. Fanny Fielding, it turns out, is nothing more nor less than a pseudonym for Mary Jane Stith Upshur, a known 19th-century author of poetry and prose, who submitted manuscripts to a number of southern literary magazines and whose principal work, in fact, is "an historical novel" entitled "Confederate Notes". She had intended “The Valley Manuscript” to be the first of three installments of the fictional diary, but it was the only one ever published. Either she thought better of attempting to pass off a second installment, or the hoax had been discovered and additional installments rejected. Oh ... Ms. Upshur was herself a Virginian. Perhaps she submitted the manuscript to a North Carolina magazine precisely because she knew it would be easily recognized by a Virginia historical society as a hoax. Unfortunately, the fictional diary has deceived many, and it was reprinted, with embellishments, in 1892 by West Virginia’s Southern Historical Magazine: Devoted to History, Genealogy. It was there that the mythical Laird of Loch Lynn appeared and was described as “a descendant of the chieftain of a once powerful clan in the Highlands”. The disappointing truth is that there never was a Clan Lynn nor even a Lynn sept in any of the Scottish clans, the name being entirely absent from every credible history of Scottish clans. The real Margaret (Lynn) Lewis no doubt would be chagrined at being so misused. After her husband fled to America to escape criminal prosecution, she and children joined him in Pennsylvania USA between 1720 and 1729. By 1732, they had moved west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, being the first white settlers in that area. There is considerable genealogy published on this family. She had "a kinswoman", Margaret Lynn, who married John Stuart, mother of John Stuart who was married about 1774 to Agatha Lewis, the daughter of Thomas Lewis, her son. Margaret and her children are mentioned in the will of her brother, Dr. William Lynn of Fredricksburg, Virginia, as recorded in Spotsylvania County, Virginia (21 Oct 1757), revised 16 Feb 1758 and probated 7 Mar 1758.

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Titel	James Solomon Crow, Jan 2023 (James Philip Crow)
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Hochgeladen	2023-04-19 14:52:52.0
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