Samuel Terrell (1781 - aft. 1835)

Born 15 Apr 1781 in Cumberland, North Carolina

Ancestors

Died after 11 Mar 1835 after age 53 in Hinds County, Mississippi

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Biography

Samuel, b. 15 Apr. 1781 married a COLLINS; in later life lived in Lawrence, then Covington Co.; died in Hinds County: was in Natchez in 1807; as a Printer^[1]

Samuel Terrell and his brother Timothy established a newspaper in Natchez, Mississippi, called "The Messenger."

"The Green family with its large connetion of kinsman and followers composed the second group [contesting political power in the Natchez area]. In addition to the immediate family of Thomas M. Green, Cato West, and Abner Green, this faction attracted a group of ambitious newcomers who looked to the Greens for political and finicial assistance. Foremost among these were Edward Turner; William B. Shields, a recent immigrant who had accompanied Judge Rodney; John Shaw, a medical doctor and lawyer who also took to political scribbling; and Judge David Kerr, who met an early death in 1805. The Greens also used the services of two young brothers, Samuel and Timothy Terrell, who established the Mississippi Messenger which afforded Shaw an appropriate outlet for his vitriolic journalism. Although this faction loudly professed its faith in the principles of the Republican Party and in the policies of the national administration [Thomas Jefferson's], it was primarily interested in promoting the cause of Greenville in particular and Jefferson County in general as well as obtaining for friends and relatives as many sinecures as possible. These objectives necessitated political power in the territory and a sympathetic reception at the nation's capital. Consequently, they sought to monopolize the positions of teritorial governor and delegate to Congress."^[2]

"Dr. John Shaw succeeded Ferrell and Moffatt. His paper was the Halcyon, afterward the Messenger, in which he had as associates Timothy and Samuel Terrell, men of some means, from North Carolina. Dr. Shaw was an educated, but eccentric man; a caustic writer, whose editorials abounded in Italics, and were often written in doggerel verse."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ DeBow's review, Agricultural , commercial, industrial progress and resources, New Orleans: J. D. B. DeBow, Vol. 29, No. 4, Oct 1860, p. 502,
2. ↑ A History of Mississippi, Richard Aubrey McLemore, ed., Hattiesburg, Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973, Vol. 1, pp. 205-6.
3. ↑ "Claiborne's "Journalism in Mississippi," a Fragment From the Unpublished Second Volume of "History of Mississippi"," John Hebron MOORE, ed., Journal of Mississippi History, 1960, Vol. 22, pp. 89-90.

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