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NotPerm t4�04+ (04 �r .`�. v r» 035 (��1 NiwoO � � United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National s Register of Historic Places e Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 Page 6 Orange Co . , NC at the count court . He also managed a grist mill , y s ana g i t 4000 acres g , 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 1 find offending with every rigour the laws will vindicate . " At some time after 1777 ;�di Ili am 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 hi *m . Several of these rants adjoined land which n h ' father ' s and g j� lad been is fa others were in the same vicinity . In 1790 there were only ten landowners in the St . Mary ' s District with one thousand acres ( 17901 ax 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 tit they would not trample it as they went to the graveyard . The homesteads of William and Barnaby Cabe were located