Person:Mary Terrell (20)

Information on Mary Terrell

Mary Terrell, eldest child of Mrs. Anna Willis by her first husband, married Captain Robert Adams, a soldier of the Revolution. He belonged to a company of minute men, and was under Colonel Charles Lynch, of Lynch law memory.

During the Revolutionary war Colonel Charles Lynch, in order to mete out summary justice to the Tories, would never consume time by having a court-martial, but whenever he would catch one of them in their marauding expeditions he would tie him up to the nearest tree and whip him as much as he was able to bear, since which time tieing a man to a tree and whipping him is familiarly styled giving him " Lynch's law."

Colonel Lynch was a blood relation of the Terrell family, hence we find among its different branches many Lynch Terrells.

Governor Charles Lynch, of Mississippi, was a son of the abovementioned Charles Lynch, of Virginia.

Captain Robert Adams and his wife, Mary Terrell, died near Lynchburg, Va. They had eight children, five sons and three daughters, viz.:

E 1. Charles.

E2. William.

E 3. Christopher.

E 4. Rev. Joel.

E 5. Amelia.

E 6. Robert.

Source: Genealogy of the Lewis family in America, by William Terrell Lewis