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_ a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page 2 An early map of piedmont North Carolina , the Mouzon Map of 1775 , shows a mill on the Eno in this vicinity , with the name " Isaac Low . " Local historian Mary Claire Engstrom believes that the Faucett Mill is this same mill , and that it was built by the Isaac Lowe [ sic ] family , a prominent Quaker milling family who left the area in the 1770s at the beginning of the Regulator agitation [ an upcountry revolt against colonial government . ] Mrs . Engstrom believes that Richard Faucett operated the mill from the 1770s on , and then David Faucett . ( undated notes by Mary Claire Engstrom in collection of Mrs . Charles Blake , now Mrs . Ralph Watkins , present owner of Faucett House ) . The earliest deed found for the mill property corroborates this tradition . ' In 1792 Richard Faucett sold 150 acres to his son David Faucett " on the River Eno in the said County of Orange whereon the Mill and other improvements are now situated and where the said David Faucett now dwells . . . 53 3 / 4 of this land . . . being parts or parcels of land granted to the said Richard Faucett by Deed from Isaac Low bearing date the 22d day .of October [ 1768 ] . " ( Orange County Deed Book 13 , pp . 94 - 95 ) . Although it cannot be proven that the Faucett Mill is the same mill shown on the Mouzon Map , it is it is the mill referred to in this 1792 deed . likely that According to local tradition , the first Faucett House -Tavern stood closer to the ford than the present Faucett House , and burned about 1808 . Some of its timbers and hardware are said to be reused in the construction of the present house , built soon after the fire . An examination of the building materials in the Faucett House by a restoration expert dated the house to circa 1810 ( Inspection Notes by Todd Dickinson , February 1988 , copy in file ) . Efforts to research a chain of title from David Faucett . in 1792 forward to the present were unsuccessful . However , the chain of ownership for the mill and house during the twentieth century is substantiated . The following information concerning ownership of the mill and . house in the nineteenth century comes from family descendents , and cannot be verified as referring to the particular property nominated here . David Faucett sold some of his mill tract to his sons ( or step - sons ) James and William Clarke in the early nineteenth.- century , and the William Clarke Faucett ( e ) name continued in the family for many years . ( Interview with Anne John Williams , Durham , a Faucett descendant: : notes in file ) . An 1808 deed , Orange County D . B . 13 , pp . 95 - 96 , confirms the sale of 146 acres from David Faucett to William and Janes Clarke . This land is on the Eno and the Great Road , but does not mention a mill . The next possible transaction involving the mill and house is in 1876 , when Albert Faucette sold 196 acres on the Eno to his daughter Martha G . Paul , and her husband John . In the deed Albert reserved the right to build a six- foot high dam on. the- _ " Big _ Branch " ( a creek just below the Great Road ) . ( Orange County D . B . 45 , p . 393 ) . Apparently Martha Paul lived in the Faucett House for some time , because local residents still remember that the present dining room was "Aunt Martha Paul ' s bedroom . "