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Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Barnaby McCabe settles on the Eno on land bought from William Few
Barnaby McCabe (later Cabe), a Presbyterian of Scots-Irish descent, settled in Orange County in 1758, bought 330 acres of William Few's tract on the northeast bank of the Eno, registered his cattle mark and took up farming with his wife Betsy Perkins.
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Barnaby Cabe hauls supplies and prisoners for Governor Tryon's army
An expense account shows Cabe served as a wagoner for Tryon's militia in 1771, carrying supplies, hauling prisoners to New Bern and appearing as a witness against the Regulators after Alamance.
Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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William Cabe and thirty neighbors on the Eno post a warning against hunters
William Cabe published a broadside, signed by his brother John and 28 neighbors, warning that people hunting with dogs and guns on their land had driven off their cattle and hogs and would be prosecuted.
Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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A hall-and-parlor farmhouse is built on the Cabe land by the Eno
The one-and-a-half-story frame house, with unpainted heart pine walls and late Georgian mantels, was probably built in the 1820s by Jamima Cabe and her husband Jehu Brown, who married in 1827. It may instead date from before William Cabe's death in 1828.
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Planter William Cabe dies and is buried in the family graveyard on the Eno
William Cabe, who held 1,389 acres of corn and wheat land on the Eno, died without a will. His marked stone is one of two legible among twelve graves in the Cabe family cemetery south of the house.
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William Cabe's estate offers his residence and 14 or 15 enslaved people for sale
After a sale of Cabe's household goods, stock and crops set for October 22, 1828, a December notice in the Hillsborough Recorder offered his late residence together with 14 or 15 enslaved people.
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Commissioners divide William Cabe's 1,389 acres among his heirs
Court-appointed commissioners split Cabe's land into nine lots. Lot three, 160 acres where the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House stands, went to his daughter Jamima, then married to Jehu Brown.
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The 1850 census records 47 enslaved people on James H. Pratt's farm by the Eno
James H. Pratt and his wife Malvina worked a farm of 300 improved and 500 unimproved acres with 47 enslaved people, raising wheat, corn, oats, flax and livestock.
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James H. Pratt buys the Jehu Brown tract and a second share of the Cabe land
John Burton, Jamima Cabe's son by her first marriage, sold the 160-acre Jehu Brown tract with the house to Pratt by a deed dated 1860. The same year Pratt bought 130 adjoining acres that had been Nancy Cabe's share of her father's land.
Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris
Pratt left the 140-acre Cabe tract and the 160-acre Jehu Brown tract to Lucinda Harris for life and then to her daughters Emma and Jane, keeping a promise to provide for the family after her husband Benton Harris died in the Civil War. The Harrises held the farm until 1942.
Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Douglas and Frances Hill buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and add a large rear wing
The Hills bought the house and about 180 acres from the Harris family in 1942 and soon added a rear wing, removing the old boxed stair to the loft. The farm's later name, Riverbend Farm, dates from the twentieth century.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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The Hill family sells parts of Riverbend Farm for Eno River State Park
In the 1970s and 1980s the Hills sold portions of their acreage along the Eno to the new state park, leaving about 27 acres with the house.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Gregory and Dale Georgiade buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and rework the 1940s wing
The Georgiades bought the house and 27.3 acres from Robert Hill and remodeled the rear addition on its old footprint, replacing its metal casements with copies of the original sash and leaving the old rooms unpainted on the advice of the state preservation office.
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