Thomas Lynn was living in Frederick County, Maryland, and the History of Frederick County, Maryland (by TJC Williams and F. McKinsey, LR Titsworth, 1910, vol 2, p39) reports from the newspaper "Gazette" published in Annapolis (1756): "By a person who come to town this day from Frederick County, we are told that last Sunday two boys, near Lawrence Wilson's in that County, were killed and scalped and a son of one Mr. Lynn was found dead and scalped, himself and three more of his house missing."
Isaac Baker (same source) wrote to the "Gazette" from Conococheague on March 11, 1765: "On our march to Tonaloway about five miles this side of Stodderd's Fort, we found John Myers' house in flames....When we came to Stodderd's Fort, we found them all under arms, expecting every minute to be attacked. From thence we went to Combs' Fort where we found a young man about 22 years of age killed and scalped; there were only four men in this Fort, two of which were unable to bear arms, but upwards of forty women and children who were in a very poor situation....The young man above mentioned was one Lynn's son, and sitting on the fence of the the stockyard with Combes' son, when they discovered the Indians upon them, upon which they ran to the Fort, but before they reached it Lynn's son was shot down, and an Indian pursued the other with a tomahawk within thirty yards of the Fort, but he (Combes' son) luckily got into the Fort and shot the Indian." This is probably the fort/home of Samuel Combs of Loudon County, Virginia, to whom William Crawford (b8/6/1744 m1767 at Conococheague to Alice Kennedy) was bound out by Orphans Court. Col. William Crawford's daughter, Mary, married William Lynn, son of Andrew Jr. Thomas (d1769) Lynn's wife survived because her grandson William Clinkenbeard refers to her after Isaac Lynn returned from twelve years with the Indians as "being afraid he would go back to the Indians when he put on his Indian dress. But he just went hunting." According to Clinkenbeard, his cousin Col. William Crawford observed "the whole transaction..." Thomas Lynn's daughter, Mary Lynn (d1763, who had married William or Isaac) Clinkenbeard, "contracted a fatal malady from exposure at the time (of Isaac's kidnapping)...."
(Beattie) William Clinkenbeard also reports (Kentucky Papers 5,): "Conolloway (Tonoloway/Stoddert's Fort) was in that narrow part of Maryland where the Virginia and Pennsylvania lines come so near together. My brother lived there till he got to himself. My father married again, and I left my grandmother and went to live with him at Shepherdstown, thirty miles lower down the Potomac. Line didn't run far from her (grandmother's) house. I recollect when they were cutting the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland they looked through spy glasses. Lifted me up to look in... I was the youngest child but one, and it died. Can't remember my mother at all. Perhaps I was not more than two years old when she died."