Richard disembarked at Alexandrea, Virginia (listed in local census of 1787) and worked there for some time as an apprentice tailor ; he may have been indentured as the price for his passage before sailing . 

He signed a petition for formation of a town at Front Royal that was presented to the Virginia legislature on Nov 4, 1788.
In  Frederick County (Winchester) Virginia, on 5 November 1792, Richard Pumaraw (Pomeroy) was married to Mary Lehew By Lewis Corbin and the marriage Recorder in the Frederick County record.    Mary was the daughter of Spencer Lehew, and granddaughter of Peter Lehew, the founder Of Front Royal, VA & father-in-law gave them a house on Chester Street when they married.

Richard purchased  land in front royal on 7 May 1793 From Allen Wiley, however, no record can be found that he sold the lot.
He is listed in the 1810 census of Shenandoah County, Virginia as head of a household of 5 males and 1 female.   one male age 45+ is assumed to be Richard (therefore, he was born before 1765). in the 1820 census he was  head of a household of 5 males and 4 females, with 3 males engaged in agriculture.
According to his son, Presley's, obituary notice the family moved To Harmony Hollow in August 1802.  Shenandoah County tax records show that he owned 150 acres of land (fee simple) from 1818 to 1829, located on the Blue Ridge Mountains, 30 miles east of the court house at Woodstock.  land valued at $ 1.50 per acre plus $ 30 for buildings, total value $ 255. for which he paid $ 0.18 tax in 1825 for example.  he reportedly built "Morland" with Thomas Buck between the years 1813 and 1818.

There is no known or recorded death for Richard.  Information available indicates that he disappeared from his farm in late summer 1835.

[see interview published in 1949 between Mrs. John Lewin, then 92 and Charles W. Carson as the Register man: " Richard Pomeroy came From Ireland.  he was a fine tailor. He was lost in the mountain in 1835 and never found"]. reportedly his sons were harvesting corn, and the 1840 land tax is listed as "Richard Pomeroy Estate". "the estate" is also listed as owning 227 acres in the Virginia tax list of landowners dated 1837, and tax bills were sent to his son, James Pomeroy, until 1858 or 1859 when the land was divided.