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Charles Lynch
Manuscript heading: Colonel Charles Lynch
- Born: November 28, 1756, Caroline Co, VA
- Died: July,1822 Shelby Co., KY
- Buried: Unknown
Charles Lynch migrated to Kentucky with his family by the early 1800’s establishing himself as a land investor and a planter. A deposition from 1806 indicates he owned land to Kentucky and was involved in local legal and civic affairs He became linked in the Burr Affair when he purchased part of the Bastrop Grant with Charles Burr in 1806. This implies that Lynch was at least land-connected to Burr’s frontier scheme whatever they were.
The Bastrop Grant was a Spanish land concession of 1.1 million acres in central Texas awarded in 1769 to Baron de Bastrop. He was a Dutch born land promoter whose real name was Phiop Hendrik Nering Bögel. He had promised to settle Spanish immigrants from Louisiana and Europe.
Burr said he just wanted to be a simple farmer but allegedly planned to use the Bastrop lands as a staging ground for a new empire in the western territories or making a fortune luring settles with promises of rich lands. Whatever the plan was he was done in by General James Wilkinson who it turned out was the real traitor to the US as he was working as an agent of Spain.
Lynch died in Shelby County around 1822 with at least one living son Charles Lynch Jr.
Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 81.