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Lemuel Lynch (1808–1893), a silversmith and watchmaker trained in William Huntington's Hillsborough shop, worked in Hillsborough from 1834 until his death. Appointed a justice of the peace in 1841, he held court in the town and repaired and regulated the courthouse cupola clock.
Source: NCpedia: Lynch, Lemuel (Mary R. B. Peacock, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1991)
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Pair of coin silver teaspoons in the fiddle back pattern with double-tipped ends, about 1840 to 1870, marked Lemuel Lynch on the back along with pseudo-hallmarks of a head, a D and a lion. Lynch, born at Back Creek in Orange County, trained under William Huntington in Hillsborough before setting up as a silversmith in Greensboro.
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Copper plate seal that Lemuel Lynch, a Hillsborough jeweler and watchmaker who died in 1893, used as his mark. Dated 1840 to 1870. Part of the Images of North Carolina collection.
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Teaspoon in the fiddle pattern with an angular shoulder above a pointed bowl and a slightly upturned tip, stamped L Lynch on the back. Hillsborough silversmith Lemuel Lynch made it between about 1840 and 1870.
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About 600 family letters of Thomas Lynch, a Presbyterian minister in the Orange Presbytery, and his wife Mary Bingham Lynch, with dates beginning in 1794. There is material on their son W. B. Lynch, who ran an academy at High Point, and on Major Robert Bingham, head of the Bingham School in Orange County. Topics also include Lemuel Lynch and silversmith and jewelry work. At Duke's Rubenstein Library.
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