Edward W. Jack, youngest son of John Jack, of Romney, now lives near Salem, Roanoke county, Va., in the quiet fruition of all that pertains to an honorable bachelor’s life.  All the members of this family have sustained exemplary characters, and now occupy fair and eminent positions in society.

Charity Jack, eldest daughter of Patrick Jack, of Charlotte, married Dr. Cornelius Dysart, a distinguished physician and surgeon of the Revolutionary army.  The Dysart family, at that time, resided in Mecklenburg county.  Dr. Dysart is said to have built the first house on the “Irwin corner,” assisted by his brother-in-law, Captain Jack, who owned the lot until his removal to Georgia, shortly after the war.  Dr. Dysart died comparatively young, leaving a widow and two children, James and Robert Dysart, who settled in Georgia.  Of their subsequent history little is known.  Jane (or “Jean,”) Jack, second daughter of Patrick Jack, married William Barnett, son of John Barnett and Ann Spratt, of Scotch-Irish descent.  The name Spratt is generally spelled “Sprot,” or “Sproat,” in the old records.  Thomas Spratt is said to have been the first person who crossed the Yadkin river, with wheels; and his daughter Ann the first child born in the beautiful champaign country between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers.  He first intended to settle on Rocky River (now in Cabarrus county), but Indian disturbances occurring there near the time of his arrival, induced him to select a home in the vicinity of the place which afterward became the “town of Charlotte.”  At his humble dwelling, one mile and a half south of Charlotte, was held the first Court of Mecklenburg county.  Abraham Alexander, the Chairman of the Mecklenburg Convention of the 20th of May, 1775, and Colonel Thomas Polk, its “herald of freedom” on the same occasion, were then prominent and influential members of this primitive body of county magistrates.  Near the residence of Thomas Spratt is one of the oldest private burial grounds in the county, in which his mortal remains repose.  Here are found the grave-stones of several members of the Spratt, Barnett and Jack families, who intermarried; also those of the Binghams, McKnights, and a few others.  On the head-stone of Mary Barnett, wife of William Barnett, it is recorded, she died on the 4th of October, 1764, aged forty-five years.  A hickory tree, ten or twelve inches in diameter, is now growing on this grave, casting around its beneficent shade.  The primitive forest growth, once partially cut down, is here fast assuming its original sway, and peacefully overshadowing the mortal remains of these early sleepers in this ancient graveyard.

The descendants of William Barnett and Jane Jack were:  1.  Annie Barnett, married James Jack, third son of Captain James Jack, of Mecklenburg memory, whose genealogy has been previously given. 2.  Samuel Barnett, married, 1st, Eliza Joyner; descendants:  1.  Jane Barnett, married A.S.  Wingfield. 2.  Sarah J. Barnett, married Alexander Pope, Sen.  Descendants of Samuel Barnett (second marriage) and Elizabeth Worsham were:  1.  Samuel Barnett (Washington, Ga.), married Elizabeth A. Stone.  Descendants:  1.  Annie Barnett, married Rev. William S. Bean. 2.  Frank W. 3.  Samuel (Davidson College.) 4.  Osborne S. 5.  Edward A. 6.  Hattie A.; and 7.  Susan Barnett.