Antedating of "Lynch"

[Wilson Gray]

Why wait? :-)

-Wilson

On 11/6/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> lynch, v. (OED 1836)
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> 1835 _Maryland Gazette_ 30 July (19th Century U.S. Periodicals)
> Postscript from the Natchez Courier, July 10. ... The citizens of
> Vicksburg formed an anti-gamblers society on the 4th, and at night Lynched
> one of the fraternity.
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