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r 034 Aps ... to+ou..Wool United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 3 Page 5 Orange Co . , NC The clan followed the migration pattern from Philadelphia into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia . In the 1750s and 1760s the migration pattern extended southwestward into piedmont North 3 Carolina , with some of the family going on west to Tennessee . Barnaby McCabe ( or Barney Cabe , as the name was later shortened ) settled in Orange County , North Carolina in 1758 . He may have been one of William Few ' s 114Iaryland neighbors who had come down to look for land the previous year . After buying half ( 330 acres ) of Few ' s large tract which lay on the northeast bank of the Eno , he registered his cattle mark and , with his wife Betsy Per 'tins , settled down to farming . A Presbyterian zealous about providing an education for his six children , he was probably one of group of neighbors who hired a teacher and erected a school ( no longer in existence ) at Few ' s Ford at the end of the present - day Cole Mill Road . The school house was built on ungranted land adjoining Barney Cabe ' s land at the south . Barnaby Cabe did not depend entirely on farming for his livelihood . He found wagonage more lucrative . An expense account record from 1771 indicates that he served as a " waggoner " for Governor Tryon ' s Militia , carrying supplies for them as well as hauling prisoners to New Bern and serving as4a witness against the Regulators after the Battle of Alamance . Apparently Cabe became disillusioned with the . royal government . In July 1780 , Dr . Thomas Burke of Hillsborough ( later elected Governor ) wrote to the commander of the King ' s army in the South , Horatio Gates , advising that " my neighbor Mr . Cabe carries to your camp a wagon load of flour which he will deliver only to your order . He is disgusted with the naughty manners gf the Commissaries ana therefore will deliver them nothing . " Barnaby Cabe was a supporter of the Royal government of the Province during the Regulator troubles in grange and other counties , but he wgs a supporter of the Patriots ' cause during the Revolution . According to local historian Jean Anderson , Barnaby also achieved another form of immortality : " His nazne is that of magical dog in a South Carolina folktale from John ' s Island . All through the tale and through the years has come the refrain , ' Barney7 o� aCabe , Doodle - le - doo and Soo - Boy , your Massa calling you . Barnaby Cabe had two sons , both prominent and influential citizens in their community with e :ctensive land holdings and political clout . His eldest son , John ( born c . 1752 ) was elected to represent Orange County at the Provincial Congress in 1776 . He was Orange County ' s representative in the 'Mouse of Commons for four terms , and was for many years a justice of the peace