Francis Hughes Home and Stagecoach Stop
Is this really a building owned by Richard Pryor (as in Richard and Mourning Thompson Pryor)? I found online a discussion of the property owned by Francis Hughes in Greene Co., TN. Hughes bought this log structure where the Jonesborough Road crosses Camp Creek probably before 1792 because in that year Hughes sold the property to Thomas Hardwick, who in turn sold to Richard Pryor in 1793. Richard Pryor didn’t hold onto it for long, selling in 1795 to James Penny.
Richard Pryor was in Greene County as early as 1783 when he appeared on a tax list in that county. Was this a move into a larger house from perhaps a smaller home he built when first settling in Tennessee? Or was this an addional property… perhaps commercial investment property of its day?
Sources:
https://sites.google.com/site/familytiesprojectsite/hughes
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PRYOR/2007-02/1171635365
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/u/g/David-M-Hughes/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1275.html
