William Cabe

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 5 dated events in the chronology →

1. July 25, 1785 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 Cabe Place: Cabe lands on the north side of the Eno River · Also named: John CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 10
2. 1820s 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. People: William Cabe Place: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House (Riverbend Farm), off Pleasant Green Road near the Eno River · Also named: Jamima Cabe, Jehu BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 8
3. June 18, 1828 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 Cabe Place: Cabe family cemetery, south of the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, near the Eno RiverSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
4. December 1828 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 Cabe Place: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House (Riverbend Farm), off Pleasant Green Road near the Eno RiverNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
5. February 1829 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. People: William Cabe Place: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House (Riverbend Farm), off Pleasant Green Road near the Eno River · Also named: Jamima Cabe, Jehu BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11