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to-so United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet awe Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 Page 6 Orange Co., NC at the county court. He also managed a grist mill, 4000 acres of land and fathered nine daughters. He believed mills were good investments and encouraged his daughters to marry millers, which five of them did. William Cabe (born c. 1760 ?), Barnaby's younger son, lived at his father's homeplace and pursued the precarious life of a farmer. Both John and William Cabe had ample land and extra cash to donate to the fund for establishing a state university and to invest in a state bank. In February, 1793 William married Jamima Piper, daughter of John Piper Sr. who owned a large plantation adjoining the Cabe lands$ William and Jamima had ten children between 1794 and 1813. In 1782 Barnaby Cabe obtained title to a lot in the town of Hillsborough. It is probable that Barnaby retired from the farm on the Eno River and took up residence in Hillsborough. Apparently his son, William, continued to reside on the 330 -acre homeplace tract. William published a broadside in July 1785, signed by his brother John and twenty -eight of their neighbors, notifying "certain persons who have from time to time made a practice of hunting with dogs and guns on the lands of the subscribers, whereby their cattle and hogs have been driven off and lost to their respective owners. They will prosecute all persons whom they sha�l find offending with every rigour the laws will vindicate." At some time after 1777 William Cabe became of owner of the 330 acres purchased by his father from William Few in 1759, and an adjoining 112 -acre tract purchased by Barnaby in 1760. In 1786, after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, William Cabe purchased an additional sixty -four acre tract that adjoined his land and lay on the same side of the river. William Cabe owned and operated a large corn and wheat plantation; records in the North Carolina Land Grant Office show that between 1780 and 1799, grants for approximately one thousand acres of land were issued to him. Several of these grants adjoined land which 1tad been his father's and others were in the same vicinity. In 1790 there were only ten landowners in the St. Mary's District with one thousand acres (17901tax district records), including brothers John and William Cabe. An old Eno River valley resident, William Garrard, remembered a story about William's death. It is said that when William Cabe was dying, he ordered the slaves to cut a path through the wheat so t� t they would not trample it as they went to the graveyard. The homesteads of William and Barnaby Cabe were located 15