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TERRELL.

In 1734 Joel Terrell, of Hanover, and his brother-in-law,
David Lewis, patented three thousand acres north and west

of what is now called Lewis's Mountain, sixteen hundred
belonging to Joel. He died about 1758, devising the land to
his sons, William and Joel, though all eventually came into
the possession of Joel. Joel became a dealer in real estate
in many parts of the county, and owned considerable property
in and around Charlottesville. His home was in town,
on the corner of Market and Fifth Streets, where the City
Hall now stands, and where he resided till his death in 1773.
He married his cousin Ann, daughter of David Lewis.
After his decease she became the wife of Stephen Willis,
and removed to Rutherford County, North Carolina, where
she died at the great age of more than a hundred years. Her
husband's large estate was sold off in subsequent years by
his executors, herself, William Terrell, and James Kerr.

Henry Terrell, of Caroline, in 1737 entered seventeen hundred
and fifty acres on the south fork of Mechum's and
Whitesides Creek, including the site of Batesville. He died
prior to 1764. The land descended to his sons, Henry and
Thomas. In the year last named, Henry, who lived in Caroline,
sold to Solomon Israel twenty acres near Stockton's
Thoroughfare, which in time took the name of the new purchaser
as Israel's Gap. The next year he closed out the
remainder of his share to John Jones, of Louisa. Thomas
and his wife Rebecca sold his share in 1768 to Reuben Terrell,
of Orange. In 1770 Robert Terrell, of Orange, bought
from Thomas McCulloch upwards of three hundred acres in
the same vicinity, which in 1783 he and his wife Mary Lacy
sold to Marshall Durrett. Reuben died in 1776. His wife's
name was Mildred, and his children were Mary, the wife of
John Wood, son of Isaac, and John. His widow became
the wife of Jesse Wood, to whom the step-son sold the
larger part of his father's land. John Terrell married Lucy,
daughter of David Burgher, and died without children in
1857. By his will he manumitted his negroes, and directed
his executors, Reuben Wood, his nephew (to whom he
devised his land), and John B. Spiece, to send them to
Liberia.

John Terrell, who it is believed was a brother of Reuben

and Robert, and a son of Edmund Terrell and Margaret
Willis, purchased in 1799 from Robert Carter more than
twelve hundred acres in the Biscuit Run Valley. In the
first years of the century, Terrell's Shop was a familiar
waymark on the road from Charlottesville to Carter's Bridge.
He and his wife Rebecca sold his property in Albemarle,
and about 1806 removed to Greenup County, Kentucky. His
mother died in 1812, and his sisters were Nancy, the wife of
Thomas Henderson, Jane, the wife of Joseph Bishop, Frances,
the wife of Charles C. Lacy, and Lucy.

Chiles Terrell lived at Music Hall, on the east side of the
South West Mountain. In 1783 he married Margaret Douglass,
the widow of Nicholas Meriwether. During the war of
the Revolution, he was regarded as leaning strongly to the
Tory side. In 1777 the County Court refused to allow a
deed to him from David Meriwether to go to record, because
of their suspicion that he had not taken the oath of allegiance
to the States. He was the acting executor of Micajah Chiles.
His son, James Hunter Terrell, who succeeded him at Music
Hall, married Susan Vibert, and died in 1856.

The family of Captain William Terrell, of Louisa, resided
in Albemarle. In 1825 his widow, Martha, purchased from
Dr. Frank Carr Hors de Ville, the place near the Chesapeake
and Ohio Depot now occupied by James D. Goodman. She
died in 1830. Her children were Richmond, the father of
Mrs. William W. Minor, Eleanor, Rebecca, Nancy, Emily,
the wife of Daniel F. Carr, Lucy, Mary, Martha, the wife of
Samuel H. Royall, Dorothy and Malvina. These ladies,
because of their eminent culture and accomplishments, were
known in the community as the Nine Muses.

Joel Terrell, who was the son of Christopher, came to the
county about 1828. In that year he bought from Dabney
Minor's executor a part of the Carrsbrook estate, where he
lived until his death in 1851. He married Lucy Marshall, a
sister of the wives of Nimrod Bramham and John R. Jones.
His children were Sarah, the wife of Nathan C. Goodman,
Agnes, the wife of Charles Wright, Eliza, the wife of Stapleton
C. Shelton, Mary, the third wife of Fontaine D.

Brockman, Albert, George, Lucy, Almira, Clementina, the
wife of Nelson Elsom, Virginia, the wife of Peter V. Phillips,
Harriet, and Hardenia, the wife of William Beck.