Did Jackson fight another duel at Jonesboro? I do not know; but it is certain that the three old gentlemen whom I have named, as well as others, asserted most positively that he did. When asked whom the duel was fought with, when it occurred, what caused it, etc., they could not remember; but they all agreed that the affair took place in the “long meadow,” as it was then called (formerly the “hollow”), on the north side of town, and they all asserted that the duel with Avery was fought on the hill on the south side. Capt. Abram Gregg was of the opinion that the duel occurred in the year after Jackson came to Jonesboro, which would fix it in 1789. He said that Jackson hit his man, but he was not seriously wounded, and soon recovered and left the community; that Jackson was not touched. It can be seen from this statement how the facts of the duel might have been forgotten, if it took place, as the other party to it left the country soon afterward, whereas Col. Avery continued to attend the courts of the county for years after his duel with Jackson. This would naturally keep the matter fresh in the minds of the people, although Jackson left the county permanently about October or November, 1790. FOOTNOTES: [M] History of North Carolina, part ii, page 56. [N] Parton’s Life of Jackson, I, 162. [O] Attorneys’ fees were then fixed by statute, in both civil and criminal cases. [P] Hodges died in June, 1881, at the age of eighty-six. Fullmer died in November, 1883, ninety years old. Gregg was much older than either of the others, and died early in the seventies, a very old man. There were living in the Boon’s creek civil district of Washington county, after the close of the late war, as many as seven old gentlemen who had been soldiers in the war of 1812, besides others then living in different parts of the county. CHAPTER IX. _ANDREW JACKSON, DEPUTY SHERIFF AND FIREMAN._ Russell Bean was not distinguished alone because he was the first white child born within the limits of what is today the state of Tennessee: he was said to have been the most perfect specimen of manhood in the whole country, without an equal for strength, activity and physical endurance, and absolutely devoid of fear. He was a genius, also: he was a gunsmith by trade, and it was said that he could make more implements of war and other things of utility, with fewer tools, than any other man ever known in that day and country. He went to Connecticut, soon after he reached manhood, and brought back with him to the western world a supply of what were then modern tools and supplies, with which he established a kind of manufactory of arms, etc.