Jacob Pyeatt

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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.