David Terrell, Sr^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1695 - 1759  (64 years)

• Name	David Terrell  [2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	1695	, New Kent, Virginia, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Apr 1759	Golansville, Caroline, Virginia, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I55353	Master
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  Father	Sir William Richmond Terrell,   b. 20 Sep 1659, New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, USA d. 2 Apr 1743, Saint Pauls Parish, Hanover, Virginia, USA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Martha Susannah (Lady) Waters,   b. 11 Nov 1667, , New Kent, Virginia, USA d. 1725, North Hampton, Hanover, Virginia, USA (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F12450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agatha Chiles,   b. 14 Oct 1714, , New Kent, Virginia, USA d. 1766, Golansville, Caroline, Virginia, USA (Age 51 years)
  Children	+ 1. Micajah Chiles Terrell,   b. 9 May 1732, Golansville, Caroline, Virginia, USA d. 1805, New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, USA (Age 72 years) + 2. Mary Terrell,   b. 1738, Golansville, Caroline, Virginia, USA d. 1775, , Caroline, Virginia, USA (Age 37 years)   3. Jonathan Terrell,   b. 1755
  Family ID	F12468	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 1695 - , New Kent, Virginia, USA Death - 12 Apr 1759 - Golansville, Caroline, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Excerpted from: Our Quaker Friends of ye olden time: being in part a transcript of the minute book of the Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and the South River Meeting Campbell County, Virginia, 1903, By James Pinkney Pleasant Bell, pages 260-262 THE TERRELL FAMILY. According to historical and traditional evidence, the family of Terrell is of Anglo-Norman origin, and was founded in England by Sir Walter Tyrrell, a Norman Knight, about 1066, when William the Conqueror took possession of that country. The ancient orthography of the name was Tyrell, Terrail, Tyrrell, etc., until the form of Terrell was adopted by our direct ancestors several centuries ago, and the name has generally been so spelled to the present day, though some of the branches use the form of Ten-ill. From this old Anglo-Norman stock descended three brothers named William, James and John Terrell, of English birth, who, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, being Quakers and grievously persecuted on account of their religion, passed over into Ireland as English colonists "within the Pale," and after a temporary residence emigrated from thence to America, the date being some time between the years 1665 and 1700. William Terrell, the first ancestor of the family branch in this country, settled in the Colony of Virginia; one of the other brothers settled in North Carolina near Virginia, and the other brother is supposed to have settled in New England, but whether he founded a family in that Colony, or died without male issue, is not known. Another tradition is that the "three brothers" were sent to Virginia by King James the Second of England, about A. D., 1687, ad explorers and huntsmen for the crown, and that they were each awarded for their services a royal grant of fifteen hundred acres of land in the counties of Hanover, Caroline and King George. William Terrell, of the first generation married and had three sons: 1, David, Senior; 2, Henry, and 3, James. David Terrell, Senior, of the second generation, was born in Virginia, where he married and had ten children, seven sons and three daughters. Of this family we have scarcely any record, except as to one son, viz: Henry Terrell, called "the First" to distinguish him from his son of the same name. He was a member of the Society of Friends, a lawyer by profession, and very wealthy. He lived in Hanover and subsequently in Caroline county. He married Anna Chiles, of an eminent Virginia family, by whom he had nine children, four sons and five daughters. One of the sons, George Terrell, was a soldier of the Revolution and fought at Camden, S. C., under Gen. Gates. Another son was Thomas Terrell, 1st, (second of that name), who married Rebecca Peters, and many of their descendants removed to Ohio. Ursula married a Mr. Raglan, and Abagail married Col. Durnett, of Albemarle county, Virginia, We have scarcely any trace of Charles, Anna, Mary and Nancy. Another son was Henry Terrell, the 2d. He was of the 4th generation, and was born in Caroline county, in the year 1735, where he was brought up. He afterwards lived in Spottsylvania county. He married Mary Tyler, a daughter of Captain William Tyler, of Spottsylvania county, where they lived until the year 1787, when they emancipated their slaves and removed with their nine children to the District of Kentucky, and settled in Montgomery county. He was a pious member of the Society of Friends and the last of the immediate family who belonged to that sect. He died in Kentucky in 1811, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. The family record is very complete of all his children except as to Henry Chiles Terrell, George Terrell and their sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. Anna C. and Catharine died young. Richard Terrell lived many years in Natchez and New Orleans, and died in the last named city in 1845. Zachariah Terrell was a Captain of Kentucky troops under General Jackson at New Orleans, and died in Spencer county, Kentucky, in 1861. The other son bore the name of John Terrell. He was of the fifth generation, born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, in 1772, and when about fifteen years old removed with his parents to Montgomery county, Kentucky, where he grew to manhood and became noted as an Indian fighter. He was a soldier in Colonel Hardin's regiment of Kentuckians and served in two expeditions against the Indians on the northern frontier under Generals Harmar and Wayne. He married Abba Allan, of Montgomery county, in 1797. She was a sister of Hon. Chilton Allan, of Kentucky, who afterward became a prominent lawyer and statesman in that State. John Terrell in the early part of this century lived for several years, in Indiana Territory, and in 1807 was' commissioned by Governor Harrison a Captain in the territorial militia service. In consequence of a severe wound which permanently disabled him, he moved back to Kentucky in 1810, and died in Louisville the next year. John Terrell and Abba Allan Terrell had eight children, five sons and three daughters, all of whom were born in Kentucky (except Arch Allan Terrell who was born in Indiana Territory), and of them our records are full and complete. They were of the sixth generation, and are all dead except Aunt Maria (Hobbs), who is still living, in her seventy-ninth year, at Columbus, Indiana. The writer, W. H. H. Terrell, is of the seventh generation, and was born in Henry county, Kentucky, in 1827. Of the Terrells of Caroline, one branch of the family moved to Campbell county, Virginia, for we find that as early as February 10th, 1754, Micajah Terrell married Sarah Lynch, sister of Col. Chas. Lynch, of Lynch law fame, while the doughty Colonel himself married Anna Terrell, Micajah's sister, January 12, 1755. We will remark in conclusion that marriages of first cousins were much more common in those days among the wealthy than at present, and there was a reason for it, as property in those days was mainly confined to land and slaves, and the great land-owners encouraged their children to intermarry with their cousins in order to keep the property in the family. Excerpted from: Makers of America: biographies of leading men of thought and Action, Volume 2 edited by Leonard Wilson, 1916, page 391 "Susanna Terrell, who married William Burruss, greatgrandfather of Captain Nathaniel Burruss, was a daughter of David Terrell, Sr., and his wife Agatha (Chiles) Terrell. David Terrell, Sr., was the son of William and Susanna, and his father, William Terrell, came over from England during the seventeenth century and settled in Prince William County, Virginia, as surveyor and huntsman to the Crown in the year 1709. This Terrell family is a very ancient one, English records carrying it back to the time of William Rnfus, and much of their interesting family history is now in possession of the descendants of the original immigrant. The old home of the family in Albemarle County, known as "Music Hall," indicates the character of the early founders—that they were lovers of social life, and had pronounced musical tastes. Agatha Chiles, wife of David Terrell, Sr., was a daughter of Manoah Chiles, and granddaughter of Henry Chiles, who was desccnded from Walter Chiles, who was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in March, 1058. His Coat of Arms is also preserved by the Burruss family." Excerpt from: Further genealogical notes on the Tyrrell-Terrell family of Virginia and its English and Norman-French Progenitors By Edwin Holland Terrell, 1909, pages 28 - 41 During this same month of August, 1906, the author of this pamphlet visited the old University town of Oxford, and, in looking over the Alumni registers of that University, he found that Sir Timothy Tyrrell of Oakley in Bucks, as well as his son, Sir Timothy II., were both graduates of the University of Oxford. These members of the family are referred to in Evelyn's Diary as living in a beautiful country seat near Oxford, called Shotover, (from the French, Chateau Vert). The name of this Sir Timothy Tyrrell will be found in Burke's book above referred to in these notes, on page 538 in a foot note. It has generally been considered in the traditions of the Virginia Tyrrells that the first Virginia ancestor was a descendant of this Sir Timothy Tyrrell of Oakley in Bucks. The date of the arrival of the first members of the Tyrrell family in Virginia seems to be involved in some obscurity. It is a tradition that a Thomas Terrell (or Tyrrell) arfived in Virginia about 1637, and a James Tyrreti in 1648, but nothing has ever been learned as to these two immigrants, or as to any descendants from them. It is known, however, that Richmond and William Tyrrell, or Terrell, arrived in Virginia from England about the middle of the seventeenth century. The author of this pamphlet is a lineal descendant in direct line from William Terrell, one of these first two immigrants, and the line of his descent from this ancestor will be given hereinafter. In the old colonial land records at Richmond, Va., in the first mention made of William's arrival and his connection with lands, his surname is spelled "Tyrrell." In the same records, where the first mention is made of his brother Richmond, the name of the latter is spelled "Tirrell." There is a deed referred to in the William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 13, page 264, whereby Richmond Terrell conveys to Henry Wyatt a tract of land in New Kent County, Va. The date of the deed is April 29, 1670, and in it the grantor reserves 100 acres, which he says he had previously given unto his brother William Terrell, and which has since been sold by the latter to Francis Waring. This deed clearly shows that Richmond and William were brothers. The traditions among the descendants of William and Richmond Terrell are sometimes contradictory as to just where in England the two brothers came from, and as to the exact year of their arrival. They are all in accord, however, in saying that the two came from the old family of the Tyrrells in England and were descendants of the stock established there by Sir Walter Tyrrell III. As before stated, the tradition generally relied upon is that William and Richmond were the sons of William Tyrrell, who was the son of Sir Timothy Tyrrell I. of Oakley. This Sir Timothy Tyrrell was the son of Sir Edward Tyrrell of Thornton and belonged to that branch of the Englisn family known as the Tyrrells of Thornton, who were an offshoot of the Tyrrells of Heron. This William Tyrrell, son of Sir Timothy Tyrrell I., was killed at the battle of Chester in 1644, during the Civil War in England. Richmond and William Terrell were both large land owners in Virginia at a very early period after their arrival. The family traditions are that they came to Virginia with some sort of official authority in connection with the crown lands in Virginia, either as surveyors or in some other important capacity. It has generally been supposed that the large grants of land received by both of these immigrants came for their services in connection with their official position. It is a significant fact that the Christian name of Timothy was largely used in the first two or three generations of the descendants of both Richmond and William, and that among the children of William were five who bore the exact Christian names of five of the children and grandchildren of Sir Timothy Tyrrell of Oakley in Bucks. As to whether these two Virginia colonists, Richmond and William Terrell, were lineally descended from Sir Timothy Tyrrell I., or from Sir Edward of Thornton, is not yet quite clearly established in the mind of the author of this pamphlet; but that they came from the old stock of the Tyrrells of Heron, and probably the Tyrrells of Thornton, is substantially established in many ways. Among the descendants of William now living in the State of Georgia, there is an old gold watch, said to have been brought over by William from England, and still held in the family as a valuable relic, which has engraved upon it the old crest of the Tyrrells of Heron, namely, the crest of the boar's head with the peacock's tail issuing therefrom. Moreover, there is another branch of the family in Virginia an old ring, handed down from many generations back in that State, with the same crest engraved thereon. Sir Timothy Tyrrell I. of Oakley was the son of Sir Edward Tyrrell of Thornton, as before stated, and a descendant of the Tyrrells of Heron, and was born in 1575. In the correspondence which the author has had for a year past with Mr. J. H. Tyrrell, the English historian of the family, Mr. Tyrrell has intimated that the Virginia ancestor of the family probably came from the branch known in England as the Tyrrells of Thornton. In a letter dated June 9, 1908, from Mr. Tyrrell to the author, giving his views on this subject, he says among other things, "It may interest you to know that no matter from what branch of the English house the American families come, they are of Royal descent, as you will see by the enclosed chart, which do not trouble yourself to return to me." Included in this letter was a very elaborate chart, carefully prepared by Mr. Tyrrell from the authorities so accessible in England, showing the line of descent from Edward I., King of England, and Eleanor of Castile, his wife, to Sir Edward Tyrrell of Thornton, through the marriage of Joan Plantagenet, the daughter of Edward I., to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. Joan Plantagenet is sometimes called in history Joan of Acre, as she was born during the siege of Acre in the Crusades, where Edward I., then Prince of Wales, was taking part, accompanied by Eleanor of Castile, his wife.There are doubtless many families in America who are descended from Royal ancestors, but it is not always easy to establish this fact by accurate lists of the marriages and pedigrees. In a Republic like that of the United States, where transcendent genius, relying upon character, industry and opportunity, can enable a man to rise from the depths of poverty and obscurity to the loftiest station of usefulness, honor and fame, like the immortal Abraham Lincoln, descent from Royalty, no matter how regular and honorable, seems of trivial importance indeed. In many cases, the character of a Sovereign has been so disreputable or vicious that to have him as an ancestor would be anything but creditable. However, as Edward Plantagenet (Edward I. of England), was a great law giver, soldier and statesman, and probably the ablest King that England ever had, one whose strong personality, keen intelligence and vigorous character were deeply impressed upon English history, it may possibly be a matter of curious genealogical interest for descendants of this old English County family to read the line of descent so carefully prepared by Mr. Tyrrell, showing the lineage of the Tyrrells of Thornton from the Plantagenet King. Therefore, the author will here insert the chart which was sent to him as above described. Royal Descent of English Branch of Tyrrell, From the Two Marriages of Joan Plantagenet. Edward I. King of England m. Eleanor of Castile; Joan Plantagenet m. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; Eleanor de Clare m. Hugh Despencer, Earl of Gloucester; Isabel Despencer m. Richard Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel; Philippa Fitzalan m. Sir Richard Serjeaux; Elizabeth Serjeaux m. Sir William Marney; Sir John Marney m. Agnes Throckmorton; Anna Marney m. Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Heron; Sir William m. Eleanor Sir Thomas Tyrrell m. Elizabeth Tyrrell D'Arcy. of Ockendeu | Le Brun; William Tyrrell m. Elizabeth Bodley; Humphrey Tyrrell m. Jane Ingleton; of Thornton. Georgs Tyrrell. After the death of Joan's first husband, the Earl of Gloucester, she .married a second time, her second husband being Ralf de Monthermer. The line of descent from this second marriage was as follows: Her son, Sir Thomas Monthermer m. Margaret ; Margaret Monthermer m. Sir John de Montacute; Sir Simon Montacute m. Elizabeth Boughton; Thomas Montagu m. Christian Bassett; John Montagu m. Alice Halcot; William Montagu m. Mary Butline; Richard Montagu m. Agnes Knotting; Thomas Montagu m. Agnes Dudley; Sir Edward Montagu, Chief Justice, m. Helen Roper; Eleanor Montagu. George Tyrrell, who was descended from the first marriage of Joan Plantagenet, married Eleanor Montagu, who was descended from the second marriage of Joan. Their oldest son was Sir Edward Tyrrell of Thornton, who married, first, Mary Lee, and, second, Margaret Aston. From the first marriage Sir Edward had a son, Sir Edwurd Tyrrell, Baronet, of Thornton, who married Elizabeth Kingsmill, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, who was also of Royal descent. By the second marriage of Sir Edward Tyrrell of Thornton he had a son, Sir Timothy Tyrrell I. of Oakley in Bucks, who married Eleanor Kingsmill, also a daughter of Sir William Kingsmill. From this chart it will easily be seen that there were three branches of the family, all of which were descended from Joan Plantagenet, namely, the branch headed by Sir William Tyrrell, who married Eleanor D'Arcy, and the two branches headed respectively by Sir Edward Tyrrell, Baronet, and Sir Timothy I. of Oakley. Sir Timothy Tyrrell I. was Master of the Buckhounds to King James I. and King Charles I. He was succeeded in his title by his oldest son, Sir Timothy Tyrrell II., who was of Oakley in Bucks, and also of Shotover in the County of Oxford. The latter was also of the Privy Chamber of King Charles I.; he was Colonel in the Royal Army, Governor of Cardiff, and General of the Ordnance. One of his sons, James Tyrrell, was a historian of some distinction, having written a general history of England in five volumes. In M. D'Acy's book, referred to in the foregoing part of these notes, he speaks of the historian, James Tyrrell, as a descendant of the old Norman-French family of Tyrrell de Poix, and mentions the fact that this James Tyrrell had written considerably on the subject of the old family in France. As to the place in England from which Richmond and William Terrell came, there is much obscurity, owing to the absence of documentary evidence on that point and to the long period that has elapsed, about two hundred and fifty years, since they came to the colony. One tradition is that they came directly from Richmond, England; and it is somewhat significant in this connection that the residence of Sir Timothy Tyrrell L, while he was an official member of the household of King Charles I., must have been in the neighborhood of Richmond, as the residence of the Stuart Kings was at Hampton Court nearby. It has been insisted by some that the first Tyrrells in Virginia came from England via the West Indies. It is known that Usher Tyrrell, one of the sons of Sir Timothy II., located himself in Jamaica. He had married a daughter of Van Tromp, the Dutch Admiral, and had children. At that early date the route via the West Indies was frequently taken by the colonial immigrants. Bristol, on the west coast of England, was quite accessible to the Tyrrells in Oxford and .Bucks; and equally so, probably, was the route down the Thames, which would also be convenient to any member of the old stock left still in Essex, as Langham, Ramsey-Tyrrells, Boreham House, Springfield, Thornton, Heron Hall, and other places in Essex, where the Tyrrells had lived and flourished in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, were all within a short distance of that river. The Civil Wars in England caused the emigration of many members of the old cavalier families, especially the younger sons who could not inherit under the laws of primogeniture, to the colony of Virginia. The Tyrrells ha£ largely taken the losing side in the conflict, and some of the more adventurous spirits among the younger members of the family evidently desired to shake the dust of England from their feet and seek their fortunes in the new world. William and Richmond may not have left England until after the Restoration of Charles II., although Richmond is said to have arrived as early as 1656. Therefore, being members of a family which had been loyal to King Charles I. in his great contest with Parliament, they may have obtained under the Restoration from Charles II. some authoritative position with reference to the crown lands or Royal hunting grounds in the colony of Virginia. Reference has been made herein already to the tradition in the family that the first ancestors came out from England under some such Jloyal authority. The Tyrrell family Jn. Ireland has produced many men of great distinction in the history of that country. Many were conspicuous in the wars that have devastated Ireland, and a number who have headed the different branches ofthe family in that country have borne the title of Baron and have been distinguished as owners of imposing castles and large possessions of lands. Many of these Irish Tyrrells were graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, and occupied many high positions in connection with the Corporation of that city. All along through the pages of English history from the thirteenth century down, the members of the family have been distinguished for patriotic and conspicuous service to their country. Sir John Tyrrell fought with the Black Prince in 1356 at the battle of Poitiers. Reference has already been made to the presence of old Sir John Tyrrell, High Sheriff of Essex, at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. Sir William Tirrell was killed at the battle of Barnett in 1471, fighting desperately at the side of Warwick, the King Maker. Another Sir William Tyrrell was executed during the Wars of the Roses as a Lancastrian in 1461. The only member of the family, in these early days, who seems to have disgraced the family, was Sir James Tyrrell, who was a supporter of Richard III., and who has been charged with having caused the murder of the two sons of Edward IV. in the Tower of London, at the behest of his Sovereign. This Sir James was a son of Sir William Tyrrell of Gipping in Suffolk, who was a descendant of the Tyrrells of Heron. During the great Civil War in England between Parliament and Charles I., many members of the family, as has been said, were distinguished for loyal services, mainly in the Royal army. Notably among them was Sir John Tyrrell, whose wife was Martha, daughter of Sir Laurence Washington of Wiltshire, who was of the same family as the illustrious George Washington. These are the "Sir John" and "Dame Martha" hereinbefore referred to as being buried in Tyrrell Chapel. Sir Thomas Tyrrell, Judge of the Common Pleas, was one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal to Oliver Cromwell, and seems to have been one of the few of the family who were on the side of Parliament. Sir John Tyssen Tyrrell of Boreham House, near Chelmsford in Essex, a descendant of Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Heron, died in 1877. The representative of this branch of the family now in England is Colonel John Tufnell-Tyrrell. There is a tablet in Westminster Abbey to the memory of Richard Tyrrell, who was a distinguished Admiral in the naval service of England in the eighteenth century and was a member of one of the Irish branches of the family. All the evidence points to the fact that the family was what is known in England as an old County family, the members of which were always prompt to go to the front when duty called. The position of High Sheriff of Essex County, which in England is a position of great note and dignity, was held for many years by different members of the family. Old Sir John Tyrrell, who fought at Agincourt, was repeatedly elected Speaker of the House of Commons in the fifteenth century. Sir Timothy Tyrrell II. was famous for his princely hospitality at his beautiful country place six miles from the city of Oxford. Everyone who is descended from this old historic family may feel proud of the fact that it was a representative of good Norman-English stock; and that in the various positions which its members occupied in the civil and military history of their country, they generally and uniformly conferred high credit upon the family. They never seem to have forgotten that their forefathers had been leaders of men, prominent in the early history of France and taking conspicuous parts in the Crusades. In concluding these notes, the author of this sketch desires to give his own line of descent from his Virginia ancestors. He has been a resident of San Antonio, Texas, for over thirty years, and is a native of Indiana. His father was Williamson Terrell, who was born in Clark County, Kentucky, June 12, 1805; his mother was Martha Jarrell, who was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1808. She was the daughter of James Jarrell and Rachel Powell, his wife, who both came to Kentucky from Dover, Delaware. Williamson Terrell was the son of Captain John Terrell, who distinguished himself in the early Indian campaigns in the West, under Harmar, St. Clair and Wayne, and who was present at Harmar's defeat and at Wayne's great victory over the Miami Indians at the battle of the Maumee Rapids, or "Fallen Timbers," August 20, 1794. The author's grandfather, Captain John Terrell, was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, April 3, 1772, and moved to Kentucky with his father in 1787. John Terrell married Abigail Allan, the author's grandmother, who was the daughter of Archibald Allan of Albemarle County, Virginia, and who was the sister of Chilton Allan, the famous Kentucky lawyer, who represented the Ashland district in Congress for ten years after Henry Clay had been sent to the Senate. The writer's great-grandfather was Henry Terrell, Henry Terrell II., as he is called in the family, to distinguish him from his own father, who was also named Henry. Henry Terrell II. was born in Caroline County, Virginia, March 29, 1735. He married Mary Tyler, who was the daughter of Captain William Tyler, and who was born in Virginia in 1743. The father of Henry Terrell II. was Henry Terrell I., as he is called, who was a lawyer and wealthy planter and who lived near Golansville, in Caroline County, but who was born in Hanover County, Virginia. Henry Terrell I. was born about the year 1695 and died in 1760. A copy of his will is in the possession of his descendant, Colonel Lynch M. Terrell of Atlanta, Ga., together with a copy of the inventory of his estate; and they show that he was a man of large wealth, as property values went at that early day in the colony. He left large, improved tracts of land to each of his several sons, and disposed in his will of a large amount of personal property. Henry Terrell I. was a man of considerable influence in the colony; as was quite common in that day, he combined several occupations and was a lawyer, a merchant and a planter. He made large shipments of goods for the use of his plantations from the port of Bristol in England, and he exported the surplus products of his land, being a large producer especially of tobacco. He was somewhat proud of his family lineage; lived in the comfortable style of a country gentleman, and was rather aristocratic in his ways and bearing. He was married twice; first, to Annie Chiles, a young lady of a family then quite well known and distinguished in the early colonial history of Virginia, several members of that family having been members of the House of Burgesses, and one a Lieutenant Colonel of Virginia Militia. Secondly, Henry Terrell I. married Sarah Woodson, the daughter of Tarlton Woodson. The great-grandfather of the writer of this pamphlet, Henry Terrell II., was a son by the first marriage with Annie Chiles. Henry Terrell I. was one of the younger sons of the Virginia ancestor, William Tyrrell or Terrell, (as the name is written both ways in the early colonial land records). The wife of William Terrell was Susannah Waters; and the tradition in the family is that Susannah came from England to America to meet and marry her husband, William, accompanied by a retinue of servants and escorted by her husband's brother. There is even a romantic story connected with their marriage. It is said that the family of William in England was Catholic, but that while he was a student at the University of Oxford he became a Protestant, thus deeply angering his family ; that he had courted Susannah, who was also of Catholic family, many of the old English families still being adherents of that faith at that time. William went to the Virginia colony thus somewhat under his family's displeasure; he was followed later on by Susannah, escorted, as above stated, by his brother; and the marriage took place in Virginia. Of course this is all tradition and it cannot be stated to have any very solid foundation. The oldest son of William and Susannah Terrell was named Timothy, and the descendants of this son Timothy are quite numerous today in Indiana, Missouri and Colorado. As before stated, it is rather significant that for several generations there was always a Timothy among the descendants of both William and Richmond. There was one daughter of the marriage of William and Susannah whose name was Anna, and who married David Lewis, from which marriage there are many descendants among the oldest families in the State of Virginia. Another son of William and Susannah was David Terrell, who married Agatha Chiles, a sister of the Annie Chiles who had married his brother, Henry Terrell I. From this marriage of David Terrell and Agatha Chiles are descended numerous branches of the family in Texas and other southern states; and among David's descendants is the Hon. A. W. Terrell, of Austin, Texas, now in his eighty-second year, and still a man of great physical and intellectual vigor, who has been prominently identified with the history of Texas for nearly sixty years, and who was the American Minister to Turkey during the last administration of President Cleveland. Among the descendants of another son of William, the ancestor, Joel, is the Hon. Joseph M. Terrell, lately Governor of Georgia; and there are also many descendants of this son still living in that State. There are also many descendants in Virginia and other southern states of Richmond, the brother of William, and one of the first two ancestors in Virginia. William Terrell, the ancestor, lived in St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, and he and his wife, Susannah, were both members of the established church, (Episcopal). This fact may lend some color of truth to the story of their both having recanted from the Catholic faith in England. There is a deed on record in Virginia from William and Susannah Terrell to their son, Henry Terrell, dated March 16, 1725, for a tract of 400 acres of land situated in King William County. William Terrell, the ancestor in Virginia, died at a very advanced age in 1727. The writer of this little pamphlet has never specially interested himself in tracing down the various branches of the American Terrells from their original Virginia ancestors, and has no special knowledge on this subject further than that of knowing his own direct descent from William Terrell. Other members of the family, notably two cousins of the author, the late General W. H. H. Terrell, of Indianapolis, and his brother, Colonel Lynch M. Terrell, of Atlanta, Ga., have most industriously and thoroughly engaged during the last twenty years in accumulating a vast amount of information on the different branches of the family, descended from the two Virginia ancestors. The author of this sketch has only sought to investigate carefully the early history of the Norman-French progenitors of the stock and the English forefathers, and to trace the direct connection between the first Virginia ancestors and the particular branch of the Tyrrells of Heron from which they undoubtedly came. This work has been done from time to time, in the leisure moments of a busy professional life; and if the results of his researches as set forth in this pamphlet shall prove to be interesting to the many members of the family throughout the United States, the author will be amply compensated for his labors. He desires, in concluding these notes, to express in this public manner, the deep sense of obligation he feels to Mr. Joseph Henry Tyrrell, the English historian of the family, for the kind consideration he has received at his hands and for the many extremely valuable suggestions he has made from time to time by way of aid to the author in his researches and in the preparation of this little pamphlet. The descendants of this old Essex County family, thus transplanted to Virginia soil some two hundred and fifty years ago, have worthily maintained in America the sturdy and patriotic qualities characteristic of their stock in the mother country. As governors, senators, judges, and other prominent officers in the civil administration of their state and nation, they have taken their full share of honors and credit. In the wars on the borders of Virginia in colonial days; at Guilford Court House, King's Mountain and Yorktown in the Revolution; in the Indian campaigns in the West under Harmar, Wayne and Harrison; at Talladega, the Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans under the indomitable Jackson; at Shiloh, Perryville, Cedar Creek, Cold Harbor, and on many other desperate battle fields of the late Civil War, both in the Federal and Confederate armies, the American descendants of the old Norman-French family of Tyrrell de Poix have nobly sustained with their courage and blood the chivalric record established by their knightly forefathers at the siege of Acre in the Crusades, and at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt. “The will of David Terrell, Sr., dated March 15, 1751 was admitted to record in Caroline Co., Va. On April 12,1759. In it he provides for his wife Agatha (Chiles) Terrell, and the following children: David, Henry, Micajah, Pleasant, Chiles, Christopher, Mary, Milicent, Ann, and Rachel. There were two children, Susannah and Jonathan, born after the date of the will. Provision was made for them in the will of their uncle, Henry Terrell, Sr.” Source: The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 2, Oct., 1909 "Some Notes on the Chiles Family" by J Fauntleroy Pages 106 -107 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1916331

  
  

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