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~~ `~ <br />NOS (rnm tq-an0 ~ <br />IA M) <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Y ~l tauc.'e ;;,aucette I!ouse <br />Section number Page or;~nre county, ~~rc <br />(1MB .lppord Me. r0Y1 dOrs <br />the ti:ae of the banish.~~nt of 'iuguenots to Ireland in t•iZC~ 1630s.2 <br />The a:nil;~ then ;nigrated to America in ttie 1760s. Tha history <br />of the ~aucette property ~rhich originally consisted of several <br />hundred acres on '~oth sides both sicl2s of the Eno _^.iver ~3atos <br />to the :~nid-eighteenth century when the iarl of Granville granted <br />371 acre larc;e tract of land to Jolin Tinnin and Janes Ta~rlor <br />in 1753. 'ichard iaucette purchased sore of •.heir land ;e:cact <br />amount un?mown) in 1763. In 1792, Ttichard`s son David purchas~~rl <br />from his planter father two adjoining tracts of lane, totaling <br />one huncirc~c: acres of Land ~`c~rhere David raueette nocr dwells" <br />for "100 wounds of current money of `•Torth Carolina." The tract <br />contained a grit mill no longer in e::ist~nce? a;1c related <br />"i~rprover;~ents . " ' Davie r aucette had married Elizabeth Davis <br />in 17,33 and it may '.~e that an earlier houses had already been <br />:wilt, :gut this is not clear. <br />David and ~iizabeth Faucette had fives sons anc? tc-ro <br />daughters. One of their sons, Joseph (1792-1869;, :parried Polly <br />Tintlen ; 1704-1060 ; in 1822. Joseph and ?golly hacl five sons <br />an~3 tiir~e dau~1ht~rs. according to the 1850 ~~gricultural Census <br />Jose;~h Faucette raisar_: the typical crops of a small iarm~r in <br />Orange County in t'nis era, wL11Ctl included corn, oats, potatoes, <br />and hay, Frith cmeat his largest crop. I:is :noc?est livestock <br />holdings incluc?ec? a horse, rail}: Goers, anc. sT~rinz. '?s is also <br />listeci in tale slave schn~;ulcs of that year as the oe~rner of lour <br />slaves ~n one slave household, a number typical of a yeoilan <br />farmer . <br />Joseph anc? ~uolly's son, Joaeph i,. Faucette 11547-1924), <br />caarried Ly~c?ia Currie ; 1845-1921 :i . Tli: `iarclships caused by the <br />Civil Mar and tine loss of slay<~ laiJOr are refl~ctod in thy 1370 <br />:agricultural Census, which records only wheat and corn Grohs <br />U <br />gro;•rn that year. Josep~l !;. anc' Lydia lZad taro ions; arl and <br />Pelham :a, and one dauchter, aaude, none of ~•~ho:a :narriec? or hac': <br />chiluren. The property re::lain~d in the ?aucette fariily until <br />tine ,~nid-197Us when aaude sold the7house tract and a'~out thirty <br />acres to ~°ilcy and Eri:;a ~hearin. <br />i?auue Faucette ; 1335-1933) eras a school teachar crtio hacl <br />a long car3er teaching elementary school in Orange County, <br />nei~7hi~oring %ascr~ll County, and in ~'arlcansas, where she lived <br />for a ti:r-e kith other fa:aily «ie:~tbors . "Seventh grades was [nor ] <br />specialty. ' :a 1917 letter of reCOal;nenc:atior. from I?illsborough <br />~~ayor, J.T. Jo:lnson surviving in he-r ;gapers statea that "liar <br />~lOr~: :lr-1S a1L1aV~; iilt-`.ci~1t everyt,llil<S t0 flat. I ~'I:1Ve $nl r~Qll ~~i'_n <br /><< ~~er ;on~~ir ;r:~o,n tae s;~irit of ~;ervice =.•ra:; <~:; strong as it i:~ <br />1:1 hf'.r. " ,`~hc: r:~Lirecl ~%f~~u t`_Cc Ch11ZC In 1~G1. <br />19 <br />