Excerpted from the Creswell Letter:

Mr. MATELEY, of Beaufort county, has purchased the old Magnolia farm, and we learn is negotiating for the purchase of the Manava plantation.  These estates were the properties of Mr. Wm. S. and the late C.L. PETTIGREW, deceased, and once the pride of these venerable gentlemen.  Under the new regime the two farms are to be thrown in one, and will make one of the finest estates in the South.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 28 March 1890, pg 2. Available online at digitalnc.org.