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BOOK
NAVIGATION


Introduction
Earliest Settlement
The Mansions of Elk Garden
The Great Awakening
The Stuart Family
Lead, Salt, & Cattle
Wealth Leads to Politics
Addendae
Bibliography
Genealogies
Index




























Richard Price Rosedale Grants – ‘C’ Is His Settlement Right 

            Richard acquired the land he had settled on, possibly having bought it from Scott.  He built a home south of the pioneer version of US 19, and north of the present version, on this property, where he lived until he died.     

            Price had willed this land (Russell Will Book #2, pgs. 3-12), which included his home south of the old road, to his minor son, Joseph.  Richard’s widow, Pricilla, was to live here under the care of Joseph.  Richard and Pricilla’s grandchildren sold most of the land to Aaron Hendricks and to John Litton (Russell DB 10 pgs. 202 & 293) in 1837, and in 1868 William Alexander Stuart bought it. 

            However, the land west of State 80 and north of US 19 passed to the Smithfield Estate (see the following).  This included the home of Richard Price, Sr.  Either Richard or Joseph built a mansion on that site which came to be called “Old ... Continued, Page 13.

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