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MPS Form 10- 0110 -rt <br /> WPMOMB Approval No, 1024 -4018 <br /> r United States Department of Ahe interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> 3 14 11.11aude Faucette I1ouse <br /> Section number Page Orange County , NC <br /> the time of the banishi :lnnt of Tluguenots to Ireland in the 1630s . <br /> The f ,ainil �r then .Migrated to America in the 1760s . The history <br /> of the Faucette property which originally consisted of several <br /> hundred acres on ') oth sides both sides of the Eno '_liver dates <br /> to the mid - eighteenth century when the Earl of Granville granted <br /> 371 acre large tract of land to John Tinnin and James Taylor <br /> ANN <br /> in 1753 . I: ichard Faucette purchased some of their land ( e : : act <br /> amount unknown ) in 1768 . In 1792 , Richard ' s son David purchased <br /> f_ .roin his planter father two adjoining tracts of land totaling <br /> one hundreC acres of lanai " where David Faucette now dwells " <br /> for " 400 pounds of current money of .11orth Carolina . Tile tract <br /> lob <br /> container a grist mill no longer in e :: istence ;) and: related <br /> improverlents . " " Davie' Faucette hack married Elizabeth Davis <br /> in 17 <33 and it . may be that an earlier house had already been <br /> ,ouil 't , but this is not clear . <br /> David and Elizabeth Faucette had five sons and two <br /> daughters . One of their sons , Joseph L1792 - 1869 ; , married Holly <br /> Tinnen ; 1704 - 1860 % in 1S22 , Joseph and Polly had five sons <br /> and three c. au =fhters . According to the 1350 Agricultural Census <br /> Joseph Faucette raiser, the typical crops of a small farmer in <br /> Orange County in this era , which included corn , . oats , potatoes , <br /> and hay , Wit vihZ at his largest crop . It <br /> s .noc� est 1iv stock <br /> Holdings included a horse , mill. codas , and swine , He is also <br /> listad in the slave schedules of that year as the owner of four <br /> slaves n one slave household , . a number tynical of a veoinan <br /> farmer , <br /> Joseph and �aolllr ' s son , Joseph Il . Faucette 1347 - 1924 ) , <br /> married Lydia Currie i 1845 - 1921 `1 The 1iards }� ips caused by the <br /> Civil t`lar and tine loss of slav :: labor are reflr� ctald in the 1870 <br /> Agricultural Census , which records only wheat a .id corn crops <br /> groom that year . JosepLZ ', l . and Lydia had two sons ; 7t.. arl and <br /> OMNI <br /> Pelha :7 , and one daughter , � 'iauc? e , none of ��ho :�i :Harrier_? or had <br /> chilexen . The property re : aainedl in the ;Faucette family until <br /> the mid - 1970s when L4Iaude sold the7house 'tract and about thirty <br /> acres to r ,' iley and re i ;: a Shearin . <br /> �elaude Faucette 1, 1335 - 1933 ) was a school teacher Wrio had <br /> a long career teaching elementary school in Orange County , <br /> neighboring Caswell County , and in Arkansas , where she lived <br /> for a time vith other fs ::� ily meiQ ;� ers . ' ' Seventh ilrade was [ her ] <br /> specialty . A 1917 letter of recom.nen (:wation fro:►i 11illsborough <br /> ?"Iayor , J . T . Jo .zn son survivinc, in his :: gapers states that " her <br /> Work lias allays whant everyt iling to her . I 'lave s ^ lc OM soon <br /> a person C) in whom tho apirlt Oi eZ" V1Cn VNI S (Is 3 'tron �l as It 1 ) <br /> i :Z her . rtitirnci fic, : ► t ic. achinc in lc, C :L . <br />