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Charles Lynch

For the Charles Lynch who was Mississippi's Governor, see Charles Lynch (politician).

Charles Lynch (1736-1796) was a Virginia planter and patriot who, during the American Revolution, headed an irregular court formed in Bedford County to punish supporters of the British (usually by hanging). Hence the terms lynching and lynch law.

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