She composed a ballad poem, "Bars Fight", about a 1746 incident in which two white families were attacked by Native Americans.

[1][2][3][4] She lived in Rhode Island until the age of five, when she was sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts, who allowed the five-year-old Terry to be baptized into the Christian faith during the Great Awakening.

In 1756, Lucy married Abijah Prince, a successful free Black man from Curaçao, who had purchased her freedom.

Terry's work "Bars Fight",[1] composed in 1746,[5][6] is a ballad about an attack upon two white families by Native Americans on August 25, 1746.

[12]: 153  In 1785, Lucy successfully pled her case before the Governor of Vermont, who found that she had been "much injured" by the Noyes who were "greatly oppressing" her and her husband.

[12]: 155  Soon afterward, a mob assembled by Noyes invaded the Princes' farm in the middle of the night, beat a black farmhand nearly to death, burned crops, and left the household in ruins.

[12]: 167 In 1803, Lucy, now destitute, returned to the Vermont Supreme Court to argue on behalf of her sons against false land claims made against them by Colonel Eli Brownson.

[14] In 1806, after months of petitioning, Lucy convinced the town selectmen of Sunderland, Vermont to purchase an additional $200 (~$3,896 in 2023) of land from Brownson for her use, to provide for her family.

[12]: 188 Lucy reportedly delivered a three-hour address to the board of trustees of Williams College while trying to gain admittance for her son Festus.

From the church and town records where she formerly resided, we learn that she was brought from Bristol, Rhode Island, to Deerfield, Mass.