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William Cabe

William Cabe was a planter on the north side of the Eno River, a son of Barnaby Cabe. He took over his father's homeplace tract after 1777 and built it into a corn and wheat plantation that reached 1,389 acres. In July 1785 he published a broadside, signed by his brother and 28 neighbors, warning off hunters whose dogs drove away their stock. He died without a will on June 18, 1828.

Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR0656

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  1. 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. People: William CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 10
  2. 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. People: William CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
  3. 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. People: William CabeNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11

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