Jacob Pyeatt

Jacob Pyeatt was an early white settler in what became Pulaski County, Arkansas. Pyeatt settled with his brother James Pyeatt on Crystal Hill near modern Maumelle in 1807. The site became the permanent settlement of Pyeattstown in March 1812. The town grew to 150 inhabitants by 1819. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included William Lockwood, Jonathan Pharr, the Reverend John Carnahan, Edmund Hogan, and the French speculator Louis Brangiere who mistakenly thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site. The site is now part of the Maumelle Country Club.

Jacob Pyeatt became a river ferry operator while his brother James made his living as a farmer. Jacob moved to Cadron Settlement in 1815 with his wife Margaret. She died in 1822. Pyeatt was the Pulaski County coroner from 1818 to 1821.

References

• Dallas Tabor Herndon, Centennial History of Arkansas (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), 164, 797.
• George H. Odell, Stone Tools: Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory (Springer, 1996), 192, 196-202.
• Josiah Hazen Shinn, Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1908), 47-48.