![]() ![]() In the 1850 slave schedule of the North Side of the Neuse, Wayne County, James Daniel is reported with eight slaves, five girls and women aged 3 to 26, and three boys and men, aged 1 to 35. In the 1850 census of the North Side of the Neuse River, Wayne County: farmer James Daniel, 48 wife Zilpah, 47 and her children Elizabeth, 23, Eliza, 21, Lawrence, 19, Joseph, 15, James, 17, Sarah, 12, Mary, 8, and Martha, 8. All the original mid-nineteenth century mantels and doors are still in place.” The house has a double-pile central-hall plan with two rooms off the hall. A kitchen wing is located on the side elevation. Both front and rear doors are trabeated, and the front elevation is sheltered by a hipped-roof porch supported by slender chamfered posts. It is two stories high with a rather shallow hipped roof and interior chimneys. The Daniel House is a smaller version of the type of plantation house built for such prominent planters as William Barnes (Stantonsburg Township), Elias Barnes (Saratoga Township) and Colonel David Williams (Toisnot Township). He married Zilphia Newsome, and after her death in 1862 the property was sold to Dr. ![]() Daniel was born in 1802 and died in 1854. “This handsome plantation house is thought to have been built for James Daniel. Per Kate Ohno, Wilson County’s Architectural Heritage (1981): ![]()
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