See article by Edward McCrady, in the _Nation_, Jan. 15, 1903 (76: 52). This article as originally written was published in full in the _Sunday News_, Charleston, S. C., Jan. 11, 1903. In a letter published in the _Nation_, March 19, 1903 (76: 225), Mr. George S. Wills cites an example of the use of the word lynch in connection with this creek, which is found in a journal kept by the Rev. William H. Wills, a Methodist minister of North Carolina, who traveled in his sulky from Tarboro, North Carolina, to Alabama, in the early summer of 1837. After describing a narrow escape from drowning in an attempt to cross Lynch’s Creek while it was swollen, the Rev. Mr. Wills writes in his journal: “Probably I shall never forget Lynches Creek; for it had well nigh Lynch^d me.”—See “Publications of the Southern Historical Association,” November, 1902 (6:479). This example, however, shows no original connection between the term lynch-law and Lynch’s Creek, South Carolina. As will appear in the following pages, by the year 1837 the word lynch had come to be widely used to indicate summary punishment. Evidently the writer in this case merely noticed the similarity between the name of the creek and the word which had recently come into use, and so made this play upon words, using the word lynch in a somewhat figurative sense. Footnote 30: See article by Albert Matthews in the _Nation_, Jan. 29, 1903 (76: 91). In a monograph by William A. Schaper, on “Sectionalism and Representation in South Carolina,” the statement is made, in reference to the Regulators of 1768, that “the settlers agreed to rely on lynch law, which received its name at this time.”—Annual Report of the American Historical Association (1900), I, 337. The author of this statement that lynch-law received its name at this time was, however, unable to cite facts to support it. (M.) Footnote 31: “History of the Old Cheraws” (1867), p. 128. Footnote 32: J. B. O’Neall: “Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina” (1859), I, p. x. Footnote 33: “Traditions and Reminiscences,” pp. 44–45. Footnote 34: Ibid., p. 544. Footnote 35: Vol. 48, p. 402. Footnote 36: One such story will be found in the following chapter on p. 73. For an account of the Lynch family in Virginia, see Mrs. Julia Mayo Cabell: “Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg” (1858), pp. 9–23. The chief available sources of information for the facts and events pertaining to the life of Charles Lynch are an article by Thomas Walker Page in the _Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1901 (88: 731), and one by Howell Colton Featherston in the _Green Bag_, March, 1900 (12: 150). Both of these articles have been largely drawn upon in the following pages. Footnote 37: