Jacob Pyeatt
Jacob Pyeatt was an early white settler in what became Pulaski County, Arkansas. Pyeatt settled with his brother John Pyeatt on Crystal Hill near modern Maumelle in 1807 on a site that came to be known as Pyeattstown.
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In March 1812 brothers Jacob Pyeatt and James Pyeatt established the first permanent white settlement (Pyeattstown) on land now part of the Maumelle Country Club. Jacob Pyeatt ran a river ferry and James Pyeatt farmed the land. In 1819 Pyeattstown had grown to about 150 inhabitants.
Across the river to the west a plantation had already been established by Major John Pyeatt. Jacob Pyeatt moved to the site of Cadron in 1815 with his wife Margaret. She died in 1822. Pyeatt was the Pulaski County coroner from 1818 to 1821.
Pyeattstown was an early pioneer settlement on Crystal Hill in what would become Pulaski County, Arkansas. Pyeattstown was located on the north bank of the Arkansas River about twelve miles upstream from present downtown Little Rock. The town was established by brothers James Pyeatt and Jacob Pyeatt. The Pyeatts had arrived in the state from North Carolina in 1807. Jacob became a ferry operator on the river. James made his living as a farmer.
Territorial Governor James Miller bought land in the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included William Lockwood, Jonathan Pharr, the Reverend John Carnahan, Edmund Hogan, and the French speculator Brangiere who thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site.
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- Dallas Tabor Herndon, Centennial History of Arkansas (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), 164, 797.
