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OVER MANTEL PAINTING
CAPTAIN ORR'S DWELLING
BLOCK 11 - BUILDING 11
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

Captain Hugh Orr, a prosperous blacksmith, was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1713. He and his wife, Catharine, purchased the property about 1740 and lived in this house until their deaths in 1764 and 1788 respectively.

Hugh Orr seems to have been educated well above the average craftsman in the colonies. The inventory of his personal property shows that the furnishings of his home were exceptional in quantity and quality. In addition to a fine library, he had 36 framed engraved prints on the walls of his house.

Mrs. Orr seems to have had some financial reverses in her widowhood, for by the time of the Revolution she was forced to take in boarders. She had no children, and upon her death this property passed to George Reid who lived in the house until well into the nineteenth century.

The building was partially restored in 1929 by Colonial Williamsburg, subject to the needs of a life tenure occupant who required the retention of an unauthentic nineteenth-century wing towards the rear. The building has recently reverted to the control of Colonial Williamsburg, and at present the complete restoration of the house is being studied. It is hoped that in the near future this building may become an exhibition building open to the public and furnished according to Hugh Orr's inventory.

The house is typical of the smaller houses of Williamsburg, but has some unusual features of its own. The building is one room deep, 20'-0" x 42'-6", with a through central hall (or passage as it was called in those days) and a room on either side, with a similar room arrangement on the upper half-story. It is interesting that the west chimney is of the exterior type, which is typical for houses of this period, but the east chimney is an interior type with windowed closets on each side. This placement of the chimneys allows the living room to be wider than the dining room and to have two windows on the front while the dining room has only one. This asymmetrical arrangement of the first floor windows seems to balance the opposing chimneys and gives the building aesthetic charm that is quite often lost in a truly symmetrical design. Another unusual feature of this building is the wider overhang of the rear cornice that results in more room on the upper floor and permits the original closed-string stair to be built closer to the rear of the building. This design provides more usable area in the through passage, which was used as a summer living room in the eighteenth century.

The eighteenth-century paneling in the living room was added sometime after the house was built. On the 41" x 58" panel over the mantel, made of two hand-planed boards, is an eighteenth-century oil painting. This is the only existing painted over mantel in Colonial Williamsburg. While the building was in possession of the life tenant, several layers of dark and aged varnish obscured the painting and the subject was not discernible. The details of a striking seascape were revealed recently when the painting was cleaned and restored by Colonial Williamsburg. The colors of the painting nicely compliment the original green and cream paint colors of the paneling. Note that the mantel also was originally cream color.

Colonial Williamsburg is now trying to identify the scene, date, source, and artist of this over mantel painting and would welcome any assistance on this matter. At present the staff is led to believe that the painting was copied circa 1760-1780 from some eighteenth-century engraving of a Scottish seascape. The seascape is reminiscent of the Firth of Clyde near Hugh Orr's birthplace. The castle might be a "capriccio." Research assistance has been obtained in England and Scotland in an effort to identify this painting.

Captain Orr's dwelling is the gray frame building located on the southwest corner of the Duke of Gloucester Street and Colonial Street. Colonial Street is the street that leads to the entrance of the Williamsburg Inn.

THE HUGH ORR (EMMA BARLOW) HOUSE
Block 11, Lot #15

The first recorded owner of Block 11, Lot #15 was Hugh Orr, blacksmith. Although he was in Williamsburg in 1739 there is no record of his ownership of Lot #15 before the year 1743. In 1739, Orr announced that he meant to go to Great Britain. He called upon his debtors to come to his shop, or "to the House of Mr. Thomas Crase,¹ in Williamsburg" to pay their debts. (Virginia Gazette, William Parks, April 27-May 4, 1739.) It is noticeable that Orr makes no mention of his own dwelling in this notice.

When Hugh Orr deeded his property on Lot #15 in 1743, he did so because of an indebtedness to Edward Barradall's² estate. The lot already contained a house or houses, outhouses, and a smith's shop. The deed, in abstract, reads as follows:

July 8, 1743

Orr, Hugh, Blacksmith
to
Waller, Benjamin, Gentleman

Consideration: 200 Pounds

All that lot or half acre of ground lying and being on the South side of the Duke of Gloucester Street, designed in the plan of the said city by the figures 15 the said Lott or half acre of ground being purchased of William Prentis, mercht

With all houses, outhouses, together with the Smith's Shop, Forge Tools and Utensils thereunto belonging now on the said lot.

This deed which has not been copied verbatim secures 200 pounds to Sarah Barradall, Blumfeld Barradell [dall?] and William Prentis, executors of Edward Barradall. (York Co. Records, Book V, Deeds, p. 89.)

Hugh Orr died January 6, 1764. The inscription on his tombstone reads: 2

HUGH ORR
Here lyes the corps
of Hugh Orr hammer
man in Williamsburg
who died Jan'ry 6th 1764
aged 54 years. (W.A.R.Goodwin, Bruton Parish Historical Notes, p. 93)

Orr left his whole estate to his wife Catherine, except legacies of money which he gave to relatives. The will is torn, but the legible part is very general and simple. The following is an abstract of the will:

Book 21 - Wills, Inventories.
Orr, Hugh - Will.
c. 1763
[will torn]

Leaves legacies of money to nephews and other relatives to be paid after the death of his wife.

All the rest of my whole estate to my loving wife Catherine Orr------

(Ibid., Book 21, Wills, Inventories, p. 187.)

The appraisal of Hugh Orr's personal estate shows that he owned among other articles, walnut furniture, pictures and a small library. The estate was as follows:

Book 21 - Wills & Inventories Orr, Hugh - Appraisement

1 Desk and Book case £ 10 - 1 bed and furniture £ 20	30/ 0/ 0
1 Black Walnut Desk	3/ 0/ 0
1 Black Walnut Chest of Draws and cupboard	3/10/ 0
1 Tear Table and stand £ 1 - 1 carpet, 2 small looking glasses £3	4/ 0/ 0
1 Easy Chair, 6 leather chairs, £5 - 9 Pictures	5/10/ 0
1 Pr. tongs, 1 shovel, 1 pr. and irons, 2 trivets, 1 pr. bellows	0/12/ 6
1 Silver watch £ 5, 2 cases with bottles	6/l0/0
1 Warming pan 7/6- 4 rush bottom chairs 7/- 1 clock £10	10/14/ 6
2 Walnut oval dining tables £4, 12 Walnut chairs £ 8	12/ 0/ 0
1 small square tear table 30/- 1 square black walnut table 12/6	2/ 2/ 6
1 large looking glass £ 3, 1 corner cupboard 10/	3/10/ 0
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6 Views with gilt frames £2-10, - 21 large prints and maps £ 5	7/10/ 0
1 Brass fender, 1 pr. and irons, 1 pr. tongs, 1 shovel	1/15/ 0
12 China plates, 3 bowls, 12 doz cups & saucers, 6 coffee cups) and saucers, 1 tea pot, 1 sugar pot, 6 custard cups	4/ 2/ 6
7 Earthern Dishes, 22 doz. plates, 7 Rye Moulds, 3 wash basons) 3 Punch strainers, 3 bowls, 8 mugs, 3 jugs, 11 flower pots, ( 1 fruit basket, 1 tea pot, 1 sugar dish, 2 milk pots )	2/10/ 0
4 Glass Pickling pots, 1 large Tumbler & top, 10 glass tumblers)
10 Wine glasses, 1 glass bowl, 11 silver ----, 1 large soup)spoon, 1 silver tea pot(	29/15/ 0
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1 Cullender and 1 sugar box, 1 copper tea kettle	0/12/ 6
1 copper stew pan, 2 coffee pots	1/ 0/ 0
2 Coffee mills, 2 brass chafing dishes	1/ 0/ 0
1 box iron, 2 heaters, 1 plate warmer	0/17/ 6
1 Bed and furniture with curtains	10/ 0/ 0
1 Bed and furniture, 2 close stools and pans	8/10/ 0
3 small pine tables	0/13/ 0
1 bed and furniture with curtains	10/ 0/ 0
4 beds with furniture	35/ 0/ 0
1 pr. and irons, 1 pr. tongs and fender	0/15/ 0
2 pine tables, 1 bed with curtains	10/12/ 6
2 Beds with furniture, 1 saddle and furniture	16/ 0/ 0
1 Writing desk, 1 pewter bed pan, 2 large chests	1/12/ 6
9 old chains, a pine tables	2/ 8 /6
1 large brasskettle, 3 Bell metal skillets	3/ 0/ 0
2 pr. flat irons, 1 small brass kettle	1/ 0/ 0
1 large mortar and Pestle, 5 iron pots	3/ 0/ 0
3 pot racks, 4 hooks, 2 frying pans,	1/12/ 6
1 Dutch oven, 1 jack and 2 spits	3/10/ 0
1 pr. kitchen and irons, 1 pr. tongs, 2 trivets	1/17/ 6
Tubs and pails, 1 pr. silver mounted pistols	6/ 5/ 0
1 Silver mounted hanger, 2 guns	10/ 0/ 0
1 brass mounted ----- 1 large smiths vice	2/ 0/ 0
16 Vols:.of Magazines - 1 set of Spectators	3/ 0/ 0
1 Set of the Guardians - 4 Vols. of Mean Presdeau	0/ 1/ 6
3 Vo1s. on Farrier - 3 Vols. of The Free Thinker	0/12/ 6
30 Vo1s. of different kind, 1 large Bible	3/ 0/ 0
1 Vo1. Bates Works- 13 Table Cloths	5/ 0/ 0
l8 Pair Sheets, l2 Napkins, 35 Towels	29/15/ 0
6 large Jugs - 1 Carboy	0/15/ 0

(Pages 191-193)
Entered March 19, 1764
York Co. Records

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After Orr's death, his widow Catherine continued to live in Williamsburg, and, as will appear in the following pages, there is evidence that she lived in the house at lot #15. In 1780, she advertised for boarders:

"The subscriber finding it convenient for her to take in several boarders who may come to the university here, gives this notice ... (Virginia Gazette, Dixon & Nicolson, July 12, 1780.)

It is obvious from several records that the merchant, George Reid, was associated in ^some business way with Mrs. Orr. One of George Reid's three advertisements in 1776 mentions Mrs. Orr: When a horse was lost from Mrs. Orr's, the finder was asked to bring the animal to George Reid's. Two other advertisements show that Reid was a merchant in Williamsburg. He advertised goods for sale "a large Assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS". William Aylett advertised a sale of rum, sugar, and leather to take place before Reid's store (Virginia Gazette, Alexander Purdie, supplement, Feb. 2; Sept. 13, 1776).

The notice of Mrs. Orr's death appeared in the Virginia Gazette in 1788:

December 4, 1788.

Died lately in the City of Williamsburg, Mrs. ORR, in the 79th year of her age-widow of Captain Hugh Orr. (Virginia Gazette & Weekly Advertiser, Thomas Nicolson Ed.)

From 1777 through 1782, Humphrey Harwood, carpenter, made occasional repairs on the Orr property. These repairs refer to work on a grate, a hearth, an oven, a porch and a well. The account is as follows:

1777	st
	February 21	Mrs Orr Dr to takeing Down a Grate 2/6 -----	£- 2 6-
October	29	To 75 bricks 2/6, 5 bushs of lime_5/. layg a harth 2/6 & fixg, Grate 7/6	- 17 6
1778 April	1.	To mortare and mending oven 4/6 ------	4 6
Octor	2.	To 1 bushel of whitewh 3/. Joe. ------------- pr[?]	3. -
5
1779 Septembr		To 9 bushs of lime 9/. [illeg] & 2½ days labr a 2/6------	12 3
		To Repairing Plastering & larthing [???] th 22/6-------	1 2 6
Novembr	19	To 3 bushs of lime 45/ - 200 bricks a 55/-	8 -
		To Repairing underpining to poarch & layg floor 90/- (6/.)-------	-- 6. --
	th	To 1 Days labour 40/ --- 2/6 ----	2 6
1781 March	19	To 100 bricks 12/9. 2 bushs of lime 1/6 & mending aback 3/9-------	9 6
1782 July	30	To 8 bushs of lime 1/4 & 125 bricks [illeg]
		Repairing well 28/. & 2 days labour 8/. --	2 6 18
		(Setled with . George Reid -- & is to Be paid by him):	£ 6. 15. 1

£6. 11. 11½ Humphrey Harwood Ledger B before p. 1

George Reid settled for Catherine Orr's bill. [no sources have been found that establish their relationship, either by blood or by business arrangement.]

In 1783, Reid was charged for Harwood's work on a store. It is apparent that the store had been built earlier as the steps had to be repaired. In 1785 the underpinning of the store had to be rebuilt. Since it is evident from the Frenchman's Map of 1782 [?] that a small square building stood east of the largest building on this lot, or what is believed to be this lot, and that there was a store on the east of the dwelling on Lot #15 in 1814, the 1830's and again in 1861, Reid's account is included here. There is no proof whatsoever that this account is for work done on buildings on lot #15. The work done by Harwood was as follows:

57)		Mr George Ried.	Dr
1782	st
Novembr	21	To Cash paid you in part per account	£ 15 - -
1783	29	_____________________________	3*
May	10	_____________________________	" 12 -*
Augt	10	_____________________________	" 12 -*
	26	To 11 bushs of lime a 1/. & Rebuilding Store Steps 15/.	1 6. -
		To 2 days labour a 3/. July 8th, to 435 [?], of Oats in the Straw a 6/.	1 12 -
August	27	_____________________________	1 10 -*
Septemr	8	_____________________________	1 10 -*
Octor	13	_____________________________	3*
1784
January	12	_________________________________	1 2. 6*
6
	14	_____________________________	20. . -*
June	7	_____________________________	4 17 6*
1785
March	15	______________________________	7 ?*
April	27.	To 18 bushels of lime 18 . & building 2 pair of steps, & cuting stone & repairing under-pining. 22/6..)	2 0 6
		To building up cellar door & cutting out another & working in Frame 20/. )	1. 0. -
		To 5 days labour a 2/6-----	12 6
May	14.	To 10 bushels of lime at 1/. & building 2 pair of steps, & repairing)plastering underpining 15/)	1 5. -
	th	To labour work 5/. -----	- 5. -
June	4	To 1 bushel of lime 1/. & repairing Steps at Store door 3/.	- 4. -*
Octor	18	---------------------------------------	3.
	31	To 2 bushels of lime 2/. & contracting Chimney 3/9 ---------	5. 9
		To white-washing a Room 4/6 -----	- 4 6
	rd
Decr	3	To 2 bushels of lime 2/. & working up 2 Cellar windows 5/. ---------	- 7 -
1786
July	11	To 15 bushels of lime 15/. & rebuilding front door steps 16/	1 11. -
		To 125 Bricks 3/9 & labourers work 2/6 - ----	6. 3
Novembr	25	To 30 bushels of lime 30/. & 1 do of hair 2/. & 8 days labr a 2/6	2 12 -
		To Repairing Larthing & plastering for Wm Carter your Tenant 15/.	15. -
		To laying a harth 2/6. & Seting up a Grate 7/6 (for Ditto)	10. -
		To Fixing in a Stove, & [illeg] up the chimney 15/. (M. Pearson) [illeg]	15.
		To Repairing Larthing, & plastering 12/6 (for Ditto)	12 6
1788		To 18 bushels of lime for. (Store & M.P)	18.
Octor	23	-----------------------	10-*
		£ 66.1.7

E. Excepted for
W. Harwood Exor
See postea 34 vol. Led. C.

Humphrey Harwood Ledger B page 57

George Reid was listed as a head of family in Williamsburg in 1782 (First Census-1790, The Enumeration of Virginia Heads of families from 1782 7 to 1785 in Virginia State Library), and among those in Williamsburg having tithables in 1792 (File B-100, York Co. Clerk's Office).

The Frenchman's Map of c. 1782 shows the largest building in this lot as a rectangular building with a small square building directly east and very close, practically adjoining, the main building. Directly back of the largest building on the lot is a very small square house. The relationship of all the buildings on this lot are as follows: Not Drawn to scale.

The tax records for 1785 show that Catherine Orr (perhaps her estate) was taxed for 1 lot the annual value of which was £13. The Land Transfers show that in 1789 George Reed had received, or was receiving 1 lot in that year which was transferred to him by Catherine Orr (The Williamsburg Land Transfers may be found in the Virginia State Archives).

In the Williamsburg Tax Records from 1791 through 1801, George Reid was taxed for 2 ¾ lots of the value of £20. This indicates that Reid owned other lots¹ than the Orr property. In 1806, James Wright came into possession "via Reid" of two lots, the value of which was $70. (Williamsburg Tax Records). The earlier report on this house dated Sept. 6, 1933 contains the information that James Wright acquired the property through his marriage to Reid's wife, Eve Anderson. The source of this knowledge has not been found by the present writer.

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James Wright continued to own two lots of $80. value as shown in the tax records of 1810 and 1812. (Williamsburg Land Tax Records.) At some time before 1814, this property passed to Wilson Cheeks, as the Tax Transfers for 1814 show that Wilson Cheek had 2 "by devise from Wright". In January of the latter year, the Cheeks sold their property to Robert Anderson:

Cheeks, Wilson; Sally, his wife to Anderson, Robert. Consideration: $1000.
January 17, 1814

That well known house and lot in Williamsburg, County of York, lately in the occupation of James and Eva Wright, and bounded as follows, to-wit: On the North by the Main Street, on the East by a street which divides the same from Orrill's and Charlton's lots, on the South by Francis Street, and on the West by Lightfoot's lot and the Mason's Hall, together with all houses and improvements thereon. And the said Wilson Cheeks and Sally his wife do hereby Covenant and agree with him the said Robert Anderson his Heirs and Assigns that they the said Wilson Cheeks and Sally his wife for themselves and their Heirs [do grant] the said house and lot and the improvements which were devised to the said Sally who is the eldest living daughter of George Anderson deceased, by the said Eve Wright by her will which is recorded at Williamsburg Court against the claim [of] them the said Wilson Cheeks and Sally his wife & their heirs & against the claim and demand of every other person..... (York Co. Records, Book 8, Deeds, p. 250).

On January 18, 1814, Anderson insured the buildings on this lot. He described his insured property as:

my buildings on the Main Street now occupied by Wilson Cheeks situated between the main street on the north a cross street dividing the lot of charlton's on the east, Frances street on the south and on the west by Lightfoots lot and the masons Hall in the county of York and James City.

Anderson valued the buildings as follows:

The Dwelling A at	1200
The Store House B at	150
The Kitchen C at	150
The Carriage house D at	75
The Stable E at	100
Total .	1675

(Policy No. 405 - P. 6)

With this insurance policy, he included a drawing of the houses on this property and their respective locations with respect to each other.

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In a letter of January 14, 1814, Robert Anderson wrote Jane. C. Charlton and asked her which she wanted, planks or pales around her lot. He suggested that the latter were the cheapest and said that he intended to put the pales on the "adjoining lot (Wright's) w'ch I bought a few days ago" (Robert Anderson Account Books, No. 3, Virginia Historical Society).

On May 20, 1816, Anderson sold this property to Mary Ursule [and] Gabriel Bocciardi of Williamsburg (Ibid.).

In 1817, George Bray was taxed for two lots of the same value as those formerly owned by Wilson Cheeks. (Williamsburg Land Tax Records.) The commissioner in his explanatory notes on the margin of the Records, described the lots as "Via Gabriel Bocciardi: House and Lots on the south side of the main street, formerly the property of Wilson Cheek and charged $3.60 tax; bounded on the east by a street which divides these lots and Charlton's and Coke's lots, and on the west by Lightfoots lots". The property continued in Bray's name in the tax records up to 1820, when it was listed in Edward Teagle's name. The tax records of that year contain much more definite information about property, 10 for instance, buildings on lots were valued. The houses on one of Edward Teagle's lots were valued at $1400; on another lot, at $350. In 1825, the tax records show that Edward Teagle possessed a lot the buildings on which were valued at $1400. In 1820 Teagle's property was described as "formerly the property of George Bray". (Williamsburg Tax Records.)

Edward Teagle insured the property, for at the bottom of the photostat copy of the Robert Anderson policy of 18l4 someone who had seen the photostatic copies of the Mutual Assurance Society insurance policies in the possession of the Virginia State Library wrote these notes:

Ed. Teagle, Property Reappraised in #5039. [Reappraisal No] N Main St; e & s, streets; west Lightfoots lot, dwelling frame, no dimensions.

We do not have appraisal #5039 in our files.

At the death of Edward Teagle sometime c. 1830, the property was "Transferred to James Lee, trustee for Susan Teagle & children". (Williamsburg Tax Records, 1830.) From 1830 through 1847, the property was recorded in the tax records as Edward Teagle's estate. The only increase in the value of the houses during that time was $200 in 1840. (Ibid.)

The Unknown Draftsman's and Miss Annie Galt's maps show the name "Teagle" in this lot. The Lively Map which is based on the Bucktrout Map but not an exact copy has the name "Lee" in these lots. The Bucktrout Map of 1803 in possession of Miss Estelle Smith is so faded that it is impossible to decipher the name on Lot #15.

Drawn by Benjamin Bucktrout. August 1800 and sketched by Robert A. Lively December 1867.

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In 1836, one of the Teagle children, William H., sold to James Lee for $134. his one-sixth share of his father's estate. This sixth was to go to Harriet F., wife of John A. Deneufville, Jr. and at her death to her children or her designated heirs. The property deeded was described as: "that certain Lot of Land and Houses, thereon,... in the City of Williamsburg, fronting on the main Street, and being the same Lot of Land & Houses, which were conveyed to the said Edward Teagle by the deed of George Bray of record in the Clerk's office of said City, for the boundaries and a more particular description whereof, reference is made to said deed; and to the deed of Gabriel Bocciardi, conveying the same Lot and Houses to the said George Bray, the said interest end title of said William H. S. Teagle, hereby intended to be conveyed, being one undivided sixth part of said Lot and Houses, which descended from the said Edward Teagle, the father, to the said William H. S. Teagle, who is one of six children of said Edward Teagle.." (Mss. dated Sept. 28, 1836 in the Department of Research and Record, Colonial Williamsburg.)

In an account rendered to James Lee, trustee and administrator, by John A. Deneufville, it is evident that Barlow & Deneufville paid rent on the house and lot in 1833. Each paid $37.50. This continued to 1836, when Deneufville alone paid the rent and continued to do so through 1838. (Southall Papers, Folder 181.)

In a decision Sept. 28, 1840, in the suit of "Lee Guardian &c,vs. Teagles &c," tried in the Williamsburg Hustings Court, the property was ordered sold. As a result, the following notice was posted at the Court House in Williamsburg, at the Raleigh, and at Southalls.

PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to a decree of the Hustings Court of Williamsburg, rendered the 28th Sept. 1840, in the suit of "Lee Guardian &c vs. Teagles &c, I shall sell at public auction, [to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve mos carrying interest from the sale, (except such a sum to be paid in cash, as shall be required to pay expenses of Sale and costs of suit), before the Court-House 12 door in said City, on the 7th of November next, (Superior Court day,) if fair, and if not, at the same place, on the 9th of November next, that very desirable House & Lot formerly occupied by Edward Teagle, and now by John A. Deneufville, esq. situated about the centre of the City, on the South side of Lain street, being the same premises in the bill, proceedings and decree in said suit mentioned. Possession to be delivered on the lst January 1841.
Geo. W. Southall, Commr
Williamsburg, 28th Sept. 1840 (George W. Southall papers, Folder 181 in the Library of the College of William & Mary.)

The tax records for 1847, and 1850 show Edward Teagle's estate in possession of a lot, the houses on which were valued at $1400. From 1854 through 1861, Harriet Deneufville is shown in possession of a lot which she held "in fee". The houses in 1854 were valued at $1200; in 1859 and 1861, at $1600.

In 1845, Southall received a letter from William H. Teagle's representative in Staunton, Virginia, saying that Teagle thought he had conveyed his interest only in the house and lot and not in the store house. The letter further says that the store was estimated at $800, the store and house together were valued at $1200 (Hugh W. Shaffey to George W. Southall, Sept. 10, 1845 in Folder 18l, Southall Papers, College of William and Mary). This letter shows that a store stood on the lot in 1836 when the son had sold his property. A small square building stood at the eastern end of the house in 1782, a store very near the eastern end of the house in 1814, and a store at some place on the lot in the 1830's. A store still stood on this property in 1861, for in her description of this house as she recalled its appearance at the time of the Civil War, Mrs. Victoria Lee says "The Barlow house was owned by the de Neufvilles who were ancestors of the present occupant. [in the 1920's, Miss Emma Lou Barlow] A small store, which was connected to the east end of this house has been torn down, but otherwise the appearance of this place has changed very little. It was in this house that I helped to bake biscuit and fry meat for the Confederate army which was 13 retreating before McClellan" (Typed mss., p. 76, Recollections of Williamsburg, in Department of Research and Record).

Through the marriage of Harriet Deneufville's daughter, Mary Marion, to John H. Barlow (William and Mary Quarterly, First Series, Vol. 6, p. 59) and the will of Marion D. Barlow (see abstract titles to this property in Colonial Williamsburg files) the property came into the possession of Emma Lou Barlow who transferred it to Colonial Williamsburg in the 20th Century.