William Lynch
Male, Deceased Person
1742 – 1820
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Who was William Lynch?
Captain William Lynch was a man from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, who claimed to be the source of the terms "lynch law" and "lynching". He is not the William Lynch who allegedly made the William Lynch speech in 1712, as the date on this apocryphal speech precedes Lynch's birth by thirty years.
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