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Landowners at Cedar Point
(Continued from Pat* >, Section 2)
into poucnioa of the larfe plan
tation upon the death of hi* father,
he continued the operation of the
estate. His popularity was. not eon
fined to the fair sex, for he left
a fine record of public service to
his county, serving as Colonel of
Militia, Clerk of the Court, Sher
iff and Coroner. He lies buried in
the Beaufort town cemetery.
Among the children of John H.
Hill was a son Edward, who com
ing into manhood, took over the
plantation from his father, who
had moved to Beaufort where he
was engaged in affairs of the
county.
Edward Hill was married to Ca
rietta Williams of Duplin County.
To this union was born a daugh
ter Mary who was united in mar
riage to Robert H. Jones of Jones
County.
At the death of her parents, the
Hill plantation came into the pos
session of Mrs. Jones who passed
it on to her son, John S. Jones,
the present owner. Robert H.
Jones served in the Confederate
Army, the State Assembly, was
Clerk of the Court of Carteret
County and postmaster of the Ce
dar Point office for many years.
Following the death of Mr. Jones,
his widow married K. N. Bell.
Known as the Hill plantation
until it came into the possession
of Mrs. Jones, it became known as
the Hill-Jones plantation, much
better identified as the site of the
eight-sided house.
This unique structure, built by
Edward Hill, standing as a land
mark for over a century, replaced
the original house built by Isaac
Hill before his marriage in 1778
and which was the early home of
his ten children.
The question is often asked, why
did Mr. Hill build such an odd
shaped house? One answer is, he
thought a nearly-round house
would help prevent the howling of
the wind about the corners.
More Space
More than likely he followed
the idea advanced by Orson Fow
ler of Fishkill, N. Y? in 1848, who
proved that more cubage could be
obtained in an octagon than in the
rectangular house having an equal
area of enclosing walls.
Still standing on the plantation,
though damaged by recent storms,
is a small school building that
servod the children of the family
as well u others la the Cedar
Point section. To hold the attoo
tion of the scholari to their ?tu
die?, there were no windowi in the
?ide walls out of which they could
look. The room wai lighted by a
cupola, aimilar to the one on the
"big house."
John S. Jones, of the fifth gen
eration of this prominent Hill
Jones family, is the last survivor
of four children born to Mary and 1
Robert Jones. His entire life has
been spent in this octagon house
landmark, an object of great in
terest to visitors.
Of recent years Mr. Jones has 1
subdivided a large portion of hie
holdings for home and resort pur- 1
poses, developing a small com- 1
munity which bears the name of 1
Cedar Point, adopted years ago to 1
identify that section of Carteret !
County.
The third owner of a large plan- j
tation in the Cedar Point section, 1
William P. Ferrand, had a tract
of 1,279 acres adjoining the Hill
Jones property. This land was
purchased from John Pettiford
who had received one of the last 1
land grants from the Lords Pro
prietors before they sold their <
holding back to the Crown in
1728. Little is known of Ferrand
as a planter.
Ferrand's large holding in Car
teret County must have been his
home place, for a short distance
from the site of his house is to
be found the family burying
ground. There beneath beautiful
white marble slabs, covering the
entire grave, are the remains of
himself, wife, young daughter and
mother.
Inscription on the slabs show
that Ferrand died in 1847 at the
age of 58, his wife, Leah, in 1847,
age 45, daughter Stephina at the
age of 5 in 1826. The mother,
Mary Ferrand, died in 1796. A
large tree has fallen across the
four graves, breaking each of the
beautiful white marble slabs.
William P. Farrand was the son
of Guillanme Ferrand, a native <
Frenchman. It is believed that this
French Huguenot came to North
Carolina during the last quarter
of the 18th century, taking up his
residence in the village of Swans
boro.
Of William's youth and early
life, little or nothing is known, ex
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tree
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CARTERET COUNTY"
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cept he received ? liberal educa
tion for the time*. Aloof vith his
brother Stephen, who became a
Doted doctor to Salisbury, N. C.,
it if probable that he was educated
at home by a private tutor.
Besides his large plantation,
Ferrand is said to have built a
home in Swansboro, also the large
two-story building still standing
in the town known as the "brick
store." The foundation of this
building consists of large stones
that served as ballast for shipe
making the early port of Swans
boro for cargoes.
The brick are of English make,
laid to have been laid by English
brickmasons, sent over from Eng
land to teach the colonists how to
lay brick. During the active days
of the port and for many years
ifter this building served as a
trading center for ships and fam
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Om Turner, 28, just Icrning
how to drive, backed her c*r across
? vacant tot, through ? brick wall
and into a swimming pool. She
and a passenger, Mrs. Bernko
King, had minor injuriea. Mrs.
Turner's son, Jack, 2, waa unin
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