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John Jarrett |
| "Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same,....is hereby constituted and established a town
by the name of Ashville [sic], and that John Jarrett, Samuel
Chunn, William Welch, George Swain and Zebulon Baird, Esq., be and they
are hereby appointed, commissioners for the purpose of carrying into
effect the plan of said town and disposing of the lots in such a manner
as they or a majority of them shall think advisable;....(1922.
Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, p. 92.)
"John Jarrett was for many years a resident of Buncombe County. In later life he lived on the western bank of the French Broad River, at the place where once the old Smith Bridge and now a concrete bridge at Asheville crosses....Many years before a ferry had been established at that point by Edmund Sams. (1922. Sondley, F. A. Asheville and Buncombe County, p. 95.) |
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