Lynching was common among North American pioneers on the frontier, where legal institutions were not yet established.
Racially motivated lynchings, which often involved the mutilation and immolation of the victim, might be witnessed by an entire local community as a diverting spectacle.
ThomasLynch - Lynch, Thomas, 1749–79, political figure in the American Revolution, signer of the...
Lynch, ThomasLYNCH, THOMAS[Lynch, Thomas] 1749-79, political figure in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b.
Prince George's Parish, Winyaw, S.C. He was the son of a Carolina statesman, ThomasLynch, and is known as ThomasLynch, Jr.
Omaha, Nebr. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr., but his parents were divorced when he was two, and when his mother remarried he assumed the name of his stepfather.