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,...._.. iw V United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 page 8 Orange Co., NC continues in existence today. He may have left his North Carolina business affairs in the hands of John Burton, Jamima's son from her first marriage. Burton Told the Jehu Brown tract to J. H. Pratt in a deed dated 1860. The 1850 population and agricultural censuses for Orange County record that James H. Pratt (age forty four) and wife, Malvina (age thirty) were living on the farm which had 300 improved acres, 500 unimproved acres and forty -seven slaves. The farm had a cash value of $2,000 with $200 worth of farming implements and machinery. The livestock, valued at $500, included four horses, seven milch cows and fourteen other cattle, eighteen sheep, and eighty -five swine. His principal crops were wheat (240 bushels), Indian corn 1,1035 bushels) and oats (500 bushels). The sheep produced twenty pounds of wool, and the cows produced 200 pounds of butter. He also raised peas and beans (five bushels), Irish potatoes (ten bushels) and hops (5 pounds). He grew one �jndred pounds of flax and had on hand five pounds of flax seed. In 1860 Pratt acquired 130 adjoining acres which had been Nancy Cabe's inherited portion of her father William Cabe's land. At age thirty -two Nancy Cabe married George Faucett and probably had died without children to inherit the land. Her share of William Cabe 's1�and had descended to her brothers and sisters or their heirs. In his 1885 will, Pratt deeded "the Cabe tract of land containing 140 acres and the Jehu Brown tract containing 150 acres" to the Lucinda Harris family for her lifetime, after which her children Emma and Jane Harris were to have it. (Lucinda's husband, Benton Harris, died during the Civil War and Pratt had promised to provide for the family.) Lucinda Harris also received "one horse, two cocas andlgalves, ten head of sheep and ten of hogs, one plow and gear. members of the Harris family owned the property until 1942, when Douglas and Frances Hill purchased the house and approximately 180 acres. A photograph from the early 1940s shows the house before the Hills appended a new rear addition about 1942. A photo taken in 1954, after Hurricane Hazel ravaged piedmont North Carolina, shows a large uprooted tree which had apparently narrowly missed falling �b the new addition which had metal- trimmed casement windows. In the 1970s and 1980s the Hills sold portions of the acreage for the Eno River State Park. Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Georgiade purchased the house and 27.3 acres in December, 1983 from the Hills' son, Robert. The