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Nathaniel Lynch came to Texas from Missouri in 1822 He was one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, and had title to a league of land in Harris County, Tx 10 of August 1824. On the census of March 1826 he was listed as a farmer, with wife Fannie, three sons and a daughter, and two servants. The settlement which grew up around his headright at the junction of Bufflo Bayou and the San Jancinto River was called"Lynchburg" On February 1, 1830, Lynch applied for permission to operate a public ferry. He was soon appointed Judge of Harrisburg (Nov 1836) He was listed as a postmaster of Lynchburg in 1836. He died February 17, 1837 at Lynchburg, and his widow, Fannie md Martin Hardin on March 12, 1840, in 1845 she still lived at Lynchburg. She was known to have made the first Texas flag but it was only used a very short time. One of her sons was J. J. Lynch
Lynch's Ferry-
Santa Anna in April of 1836, hoped to cut off the retreat of the Texan's across the Ferry. In 1949 a Ferry operated at the same site across the Houston Ship Channel and was called "Lynchburg" Ferry.
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