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ap,s ofm lo-w*-k OMS AnArortJ Nq+6 f-06S <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> i.laude Faucette House <br /> Section number 8 Page Orange County, NC <br /> the time of the banishment of Huguenots to Ireland in the 1680s . 2 <br /> The family then migrated to America in the 1760s. The history <br /> of the raucette property which originally consisted of several <br /> hundred acres on both sides of the Eno River dates <br /> to the mid--eighteenth century when the Earl of Granville granted <br /> 371 acre large tract of land to John Tannin and James Taylor <br /> in 1753 . Richard Faucette purchased some of their land (exact <br /> amount unknown) in 1768 . In 1792, Richard ' s son David purchased <br /> from his planter father two adjoining tracts of land totaling <br /> one hundred acres of land "where David Faucette now dwells" <br /> for "400 pounds of current money of North Carolina. " The tract <br /> contained a griRt mill (no longer in existence) and related <br /> "improvements. " David Faucette had married Elizabeth Davis <br /> in 1.733 and it may be that an earlier house had already been <br /> built,' but this is not clear. <br /> David and Elizabeth Paucette had five sons and two <br /> daughters. one of their sons, Joseph ( 1792-1869 ) , married Polly <br /> Tinnen (1784-1860 ) in 1822 . Joseph and Polly had five sons <br /> and three daughters . According to the 1850 Agricultural. Census <br /> Joseph Faucette raised the typical crops of a small farmer in <br /> Orange County in this era, which included corn, oats, potatoes, <br /> and hay, with wheat his largest crop. His modest livestock <br /> holdings included a horse, milk cows , and- serine. He is also <br /> listed in the slave schedules of that year as the owner of four <br /> slaves �n one slave household, a number typical of a yeoman <br /> farmer. <br /> Joseph and Polly ' s son, Joseph tel. Faucette ( 1847-1924 ) , <br /> married Lydia Currie ( 1845-1921 ) . The hardships caused by the <br /> Civil War and the loss of slave labor are reflected in the 1870 <br /> Agricultural Cengus, which records only wheat and corn crops <br /> grown that year. Joseph W. and Lydia had two sons, Earl and <br /> Pelham, and one daughter, 1-laude, none of whom ;parried or had <br /> children. The property remained in the Faucette family until <br /> the mid--1970s when Maude sold the 7house tract and about thirty <br /> acres to Wiley and Erica Shearin. <br /> Maude Faucette (1885-1983 ) was a school teacher who 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 With other family members _ "Seventh grade was (herl <br /> specialty. " A 1917 letter of recommendation from Hillsborough <br /> Mayor, J.T. Johnson surviving in her papers states that "her <br /> work has always meant everything to her. 1 have Beldon, seen <br /> a person 9in wham the spirit of service was as strong as it is <br /> in her. " She retired from teaching in 1961 . <br />