Arkansas Pioneer Pyeatt Confusion
I am confused about the Pyeatt line and who were the Pioneers of Arkansas. I heard these pioneers of Arkansas came from NC and then Alabama, where they were kicked off Indian land and then settled in Arkansas.
I have Jacob as the Major. Is this right? Did John Pyeatt marry Martha Carnahan....below it says he married a Betsy. I have John dying in 28 Jan 1823, but below it states 1826. I have this Peter a son of Major Jacob Pyeatt and Margaret Finley.
Can someone please give me the complete line of the Pyeatts from John Piatt (Pyeatt) and Martha Jane Blair down 3 Generations. Thank You.
I found the following in the Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas:
Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas
Major John Pyeatt died in 1826, and his wife, Betsy, andhis son, Peter, were appointed by the Pulaski Court as administrators.This son was not the recluse his father had been. Hehad a good horse and saddle and he took long rides to the northwardon Saturday night, returning late Monday morning. Awavup on Poke Bayou, near where Batesville now stands there camein 1814 a band of Peels and Millers from Kentucky. YoungPeter Pyeatt discovered that James Miller of Poke Bayou had adaughter most fair to look upon, and this explains his mysteriouspilgrimages. Mary Miller said "Yes," and in December, 1822,Rev. John Carnahan united them in holy wedlock and CrystalHill gained another family. From this Poke Bayou family ofMillers came in time a second governor for Arkansas namedMiller and he was born at Batesville in less than a year after thePyeatt-Miller marriage.
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One year later Major John Pyeatt and his brother, Jacob,with their families, settled at Crystal Hill. It has been said thatthey were from Georgia, but I am inclined to believe they werefrom North Carolina. These two settlements were about a mileapart and existed, it seems, without any kind of communicationwith the outside world. In 1815 Major Gibson of the UnitedStates army went up the Arkansas and stopped at Major Pyeatt's.To his amazement Major Pyeatt had not heard of the war of1812, nor of the many events that had transpired in the worldsince 1807.
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To live eight years in the heart of a wildnerness, cut offfrom all communication with old associations or the world'sprogress, seems very much like being buried alive. If, as Gibbonsays, solitude is the school of genius, Major Pyeatt musthave been genius personified. Some other eminent man hassaid: "Solitude is the audience chamber of God;" but this ishardly applicable to Crystal Hill. It is certain that these settlerswere isolated and that they suffered many privations, butit is only along lines like these that civilization proceeds.47
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Near Major Pyeatt there lived a Frenchman, Louis Brangiere,who, mistaking the rock crystals and talc in the bluff,about one mile below White Oak bayou, for silver, became aprospector and developer of mines. He opened a mine and spentconsiderable money upon it, but without striking pay dirt. Nuttalfound the old implements and pans in 1819. John Trammelin 1815 also found this mine and took specimens to ArkansasPost, where Francis Notrebe, a new comer from France, and aclerk in a commission house decided they contained gold. Notrebeafterward found gold in Arkansas, but not through miningchannels. For years after this, and even down to this good hourthe whole region from Crystal Hill on one side to the mouth ofthe Cadron on the other was, and is believed by many, to berich in mineral, but no one has ever made it pay.
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Jacob Pyeatt was recorded as a revoluntionary soldier of the SouthCarolina militia and Shared as a soldier of the North Carolinamilitia. Jacob at that time (1834) was seventy-one years of age and Shared seventy-seven. Both were then living in Pulaskicounty. Thinking that Shared was a missprint for Sampson Ilooked up the original record, but found that Shared was right.Sampson Gray was in Pulaski county in 1818, and was a son ofone of the immigrants; he was a popular and noted man..... These men also have a township in Pulaski county standing to theireverlasting credit.
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Re: Arkansas Pioneer Pyeatt Confusion
Laverne Piatt 7/10/02