Haw Fields

… name given by traders in the early eighteenth century to the region occupied by Saxapahaw and Sissipahaw Indians between the Haw and Eno Rivers in what is now Alamance and Orange Counties. The Indians had left by the time the first white settlers arrived, and they called the region "Haw old fields," a name mentioned in 1728 by William Byrd. Haw Fields was used in 1736 in connection with a land grant there. Edward Moseley patented 10,000 acres of land in the region on November 6, 1728.