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1jo United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe- Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 Page 7 Orange Co., NC on the north side of the Eno approximately one -half mile west of the point where the present day Pleasant Green Road crosses the river. A well - traveled road survived into the twentieth century from the Pleasant Green Community, passing the old Barney Cabe homestead where it dead ends at the river. The Cabe Familv cemetery is located approximately 300 yards southwest of the present day residence. There are twelve graves there, but only two of them are clean y marked, including one for "W.-Cabe. Died June 13, 1828." William Cabe died apparently without leaving a will and his property was divided among his heirs. An advertisement in the September 24, 1823 Hillsboro Recorder, a local newspaper, gave notice that his dwelling house, furniture, livestock, farming tools, a wagon and gear, wheat and corn crop and "many other articles too tedious to mention" were to be sold October 22, 1828. Another notice in the paper on December 8, 1828, again offTied for sale his "late residence and 14 or 15 likely Negroes. In February, 1829, commissioners were appointed to make a division of his land which then totaled 1,389 acres. They divided that land into nine lots. Lot number three, 160 acres, was assigned to his daughter Jamima (named after his wife), who married twice, first to John Burton in February, 1825 who died early in the marriage, and next to Jehu Brogan in August, 1827. Jamima Cabe's will, dated !larch 5, 1845, states that she "bequeath(s) to my daughter Mary Burton the plantation which I purchased from my son -in -law Jehu Brown, adjoining the lands on which I now live. . .I give to my grandson John Burton the wagon and gear and all of last year's crop; one of the heifers and one -third of the stock of hogs. . .to my affectionate granddaughter Mary A. Burton one bed and clothing, and corner cupboard with all ttg wares it contains, together with one of the young heifers." It appears that William Cabe left the tract number three, where the Cabe - Pratt- Harria house is located, to his daughter Jamima, using her husband's name, Jehu Brown. It is unclear whether the Cabe - Pratt - Harris House was already standing (making either William Cabe or John Burton the builder), or whether Jehu and Jamima built the house. Stylistically, the house appears to date from the late- eighteenth century or the first quarter of the nineteenth century. It seems more likely that Jehu 'built the handsome house with his wife's inheritance, and lived there until they moved to Arkadelphia, Arkansas about 1845 where he operated a successful lumber business which