The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-14
OLD PLACES.
THE FIRST SETTLERS IN lIENRito
now HISTORIC CHANTILL| OH
GTYALLY LOOKED
SOME orTuE OLD FAMILIES 90 RICH
MDND
Manners and Customs of Our Fathers ana
Nati.ers-Thc DaY. 81 the Three Log
g.d Suuticra and Dripping Candles
Interestingly Recalled.

x.a Suuficra and Dripping candies
Interestingly Recalled.
About four miles westward from the
original corporate limits OF Richmona
was settled partly la sir tmgh Dfys-
lale's time, ana afterwards, when Tower
nor GOoch presided over the destinlcs OF
the colony, q large body 0f land. now
cut up into MANY farms and yarOusly
built upon The Prices Welsh family,
were among the first corners 10 THIS part
OF lIeurico county The derivation OF
the name was from ap-kichard, or son OF
Richard. Il was changed TO Pulchard
then hy succession of gfadalions To
Price According tO accounts given io
the writer hy old members of the family,
F ihc original seat or sitting place Was al
Chantinv. This was situated ont Oh me
south side of Dccprnn turnpike or The
continuation Of Broad street Fifty yelfs
ago 10 was an old onesiory brick
house. with am attic and dromer
windows above, hid from the road
/ bv q dense Growth az hedge and tall
+ .hmbhefv. and oyershadowcd 10y the
lcafv domes of great oaks. Some ot our
Older citizens will remember when the
late Mr. Ambrose iIuichison added TO
Inc dwelling house and lived there many
wears 4 family burying ground cnciost
the fombstoncs under which rcpose the
remains Ot many OF the Price. and theii
descendants The late Captain Robert
D0uibaf, Who commanded the cavalry
escort upon The occasion of Lafayette :
visit to Richmond in 1874. lies buried
there The place has undergone SD many
changes and has passed through SO many
hands that "a has Lost ihe distinctive Tea.
lures of an old colonial residence The
oaks are zone, the house bins been IT,
moved for 70 more modern structure
and the -oQuostered dignity Of form.
er day, has Welded to the an
proach OF The city and ii4 SUBURBS Al
The time it was built people preferred "a
reside close 10 the nearest highway. u
afforded them opportunity 90 see and
converse with strangers They got M
formation of what wa, transporting
I'm the world outside, and heard lhe latest
news from the noighbOring town. Hht
sensation of the DAY was when the stage
coach came numbering along through ih'
mud with its load or tired travellers, b.
carulOus driver and his despatched anC
painting horses our ancienis of Chan
tillv. however, did not need the latter in
asmuch as they could have daily com
municttion with Richmond IL 70 werl
necessary Behind the dwelling and Che
ouihouses Day lat expan.e of cultivated
band bounded hy forests of pine an,
original growth The pine always site
ceeds tine clearing and cultivation o
B new grounds a- they were called IN
the eastern pant of Virginia, b the land
bc allowed 10 De idle Ihe agricultural
products of The day We're Indian corn
tobacco. barley, OATS. hemp and "a small
3 quantity of wheat a cotton patch wa.
- ALWAYS q sort of appendix to other farm
b ing operations, and continued to Dee unit
. lis mote abundant cultivation iarthei
b south rendered this unnecessary.
Many wero the descendants of the fra
John Price who lived nearest to Rich
p mond We know moi whether he Wa-
D remarkable for patience under trials. a'
was Job Of old. hut his family of seven
SONS and three daughters made him a'
q notable q man in this respect as was tbt
Patriarch of IT, Some of these chill
. dreu tmigra cd 10 other states. hut mOs
OF them remained In the immediate
ueighh0rho0i where they were born and
c0l0nized upon adjacent lands one 0
them owned litile WeNham. on th'
river road, four miles west of Richmond
. Another built Westw0Od mot the West
- wood of the G)niOns, on the Bro0i
turnpike Another -Ctl ed the place Onc'
owned by } T. Ballard, and more re
cent IN by the late Thomas Branch, an'
e the last lived at "Ihe Grove whore ODE
widow OF the late Mr. Thomas Johnston
BOW resides The country residence o
the late Thomas Branch immediately on
the line of the Richmond, Fredericks
burg and Potomac Railway was origi
3 nahy "A tV0-story frame building. 10 wa.
B built by Barrett Price, one Ot the above
E mentioned seven sons of John. ii'
} lived there many wears and died. leaving
s widow whose sojOuru on earth reached
, uinetv-fye years She had married a'
{ fifteen wears of age, as was often The case
among the people of that day, anil spent
eighty years of her long lire al one place
The writer recOllccf- seeing her once ii
j short timc before her death al
s bcr old home Her memory, like
8 chat of most very old people
3 went back 10 lhc earliest part of hes life
The events Of her childhood were ST.
strongly impressed upon her mind that
/ whenever reference WAS made tO any OF
them the light of other days sh0ne al
} once through the dimness OF her faded
vision, and her lusterlcs- eye was kindleo
! anew with is pristine fire. Her mother
in-law lived 20 Chautilly while the ReyO
lmtiOnary war was going on, and as hel
. husband was ia the Continental army
, she thought 10 safer 10 remove for the
- time GO that place Old John. Price .Wl,
} hsd married into the family of " hites
- of Hanover county, living then 40 BelF-
5 Mills. now better known as ElersOn
Mills, and made famous during the Ian,
war, was too OH 10 bee IN tie army
He his wife. and the rest OF Oh,
I old people were enjoying in
j their homey and frugal way th,
3 quiet OF their country retreat The
daily round of domestic duties was regu
+ larly performed The naX was broken or
, tho rack. maccrated and dried, and ther
- spun 60 be woven into coarse linen. The
monotonous whifl ~ the spinning whee
7 never ceased by day and BIZ night ne
gro women skilled in the operation wer'
preparing the cotton and wooden yarn.
! on steel brooches attached 20 the spin
ming wheels 10 Doc woven into home
, spun cloth for The use Of th,
! family All the wooden fabrics u.ec
bv whites and blacks were manu-
! featured on the farms OF the hest peopl,
al that time. The old lady with silver
knitting-sheath liked 20 her gifdle, KEPT
/ her hands and those OF her women busy
. knitting yarn stockings and socks on
, long steel needles. not now to be found
/ among The household goods OF the pres
ent day They are more scarce even
than The tray with its three-legged snuff
fers 20 necessary % clipping of the
charred wick Of the dripping candles Of
that time
The farming operations went ON apact
with those OF the household Instead OF
an oyerseer as he was called, an expert
enced and lrusty slave was often assign
ed 90 the management OF the hand,
working in the field This was the cas-,
at the time of which we write, as will BE-