1775 Mace Pickett purchased land from Henry Pickett.
Purdie's Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 3, 1775. [22]
1734 The court proceeded to lay the County levy: Micajah Pickett and Mace Pickett were paid per account. Dated December 13. [1] By 1739, Mace Pickett was involved in law enforcement activities. [2]
1744/45 Mace Pickett had a wife named Elizabeth. [3] [4]
1745 Mace Pickett was indebted to John Pickett in Caroline County. [5]
1746 Mace Pickett was accused of trying to take his brother James' girlfriend. "Mace Pickett being admitted to jail by John Taylor, Gent. upon a complaint by James Pickett & Peggy Dunn and being brought before the court, it is ordered the sheriff keep Mace in custody till he enters into a bond of 50 pounds with two securities of 25 pounds each for his good behavior for one year". [6] [7]
1750 Lands held by Maze Pickett in Caroline County were granted by patent to William Daniel by a Virginia Land Council meeting on June 13. [8]
1759 Justices of Caroline County Virginia were to take depositions relevant to the case now pending in Salisbury Court between James Picket the younger, plaintiff, and Henry Downes, for detaining a negro woman named Lucy [Luce]. Particularly singles out John Picket the elder and Mace or Mose Picket, perhaps this one, of Caroline for deposition. James Picket Jr was also contesting Downes' possession of a boy named Daniel. [9]
1760 On 27 March, John Taylor was appointed overseer of the Road from Pickett's ford down into the Dundee road. Orange County, Virginia. [10]
1765 John Pickett Senior and Mary, his wife, of Caroline County, conveyed by deed of gift, to Mace Pickett, son of the said John and Mary Pickett, all that tract of land the said John and Mary Pickett hold in South Farnham Parish, Essex County, containing 125 acres, and adjoining lands of William Cox and Henry Cox, and Piscataway Creek. Dated February 20. Witnesses: Edward Vauter, William Pickett Jr, Mace (M, his mark) Pickett Junr. Proved June 17 1765. [11] [12] [13] On September 19, a visit was made to assure that Mary Pickett consented to the sale. [14]
1765 Mace Picket was a freeholder who voted (he appeared on two lists) in the election of Burgesses for Essex County, Virginia on July 9, 1765. [15]
1766 Mace Pickett was granted 339 acres in Drysdale Parish, Caroline County, Virginia. Dated April 6. Signed December 11, 1780. [16]
1766 Mary Pickett made a deed of gift to Mace Pickett in the July Caroline County Court. [17]
1768 Mace Picket was listed in the election poll of Burgesses at Tappahannock for Essex County, Virginia on 24 Nov 1768. [18]
1769 Mace Pickett (perhaps this one or his son) was indebted to Henry Pickett in Caroline County. [19]
1773 Mace Pickett and wife Elizabeth sold 125 acres of land to William Roane. Dated February 20. Mace's parents, John and Mary Pickett, had given the land to Mace by deed dated February 25, 1765. [20]
1775 Mace Pickett (perhaps this one or his son) posted a newspaper notice stating that he had purchased from Henry Pickett (deceased), and was the owner of, 400 acres of land on the north east side of Madison's gap. [21]
1777 Mace Pickett published a story in the Virginia Gazette newspaper telling of the success his wife had with healing cancer. [23] [24]
1780 Mace Pickett Jr and Elizabeth Pickett (relationship not stated) witnessed a deed by Thomas Streshley [25]
1780 Mace Pickett and John Pickett were granted land. Dated December 11. [26] A Commonwealth grant and patent was made to Mace Pickett (perhaps this one or his son), 339 acres. [27] [28]
1782 Mace Pickett (perhaps this one or his son) lived in Orange County, Virginia in the 1782 census with 3 white and 3 dwelling buildings.
1782 Micajah Neal and Milly Beasley were married on August 3, with consent of father James Beasley. Mace Pickett provided security. [29]
1785 Mace Pickett (perhaps this one or his son) lived in Orange County, Virginia in the 1785 census with 5 white and 1 dwelling buildings and 1 other building.
1792 Esther Pickett, daughter of Mace Pickett (likely the son of this Mace Pickett), married Benjamin Powell on December 24, in Orange County, Virginia [30].
1793 Elizabeth died in Caroline County by this time. [31]
1794 Richard Green testified that he had purchased land from Elizabeth Pickett, widow of Mace Pickett, about 1794. Mace reportedly owned as "surplus" from Mace's father John Pickett's estate. Richard Green's testimony was in a court case involving Martin and William Pickett, executors of the will of William Pickett, deceased, and George and Reubin Pickett. The case involved land that John Pickett [father of William, deceased] had granted to John's sons William [deceased] and Thomas Pickett [brother of William, deceased] in John's will. [32]
Research Notes:
Some research suggests that William Pickett and Jeremiah Pickett may have been sons of Mace Pickett. The records are not clear.
1785 Jeremiah Pickett and wife Anne sold land in the Parish of Hanover, King George County, Virginia. The land was one eighth part of the estate of George Edwards, deceased, which George had devised to his children, Anne among them. [33] [34]
Note that Jeremiah Pickett, spouse of Anne Edwards, has a different wife than the Jeremiah Pickett who fought in the War of 1812 (perhaps married to Agness).
1796 Land of Jeremiah Pickett on Sinking Creek [see the deed of 1803] was mentioned in a deed in Russell County, Virginia. [35]
1803 Land of Jeremiah Pickett was mentioned in a deed in Russell County, Virginia. Jonathan Pickett, Patrick Coyle, and John Harges were witnesses. [36]
1803 Jeremiah Pickett and wife Agness [perhaps named in the 1812 record] of Russell County, Virginia sold land on Sinking Creek, waters of Clinch River to William Barry on August 23. The land was granted by patent dated May 22, 1793. [37]
1812 William Pickett certified that he was the elder brother of Jeremiah Pickett, a soldier in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Jeremiah disappeared leaving one child, now deceased. William Pickett was living in Caroline County, Virginia. William was the only known surviving brother of Jeremiah, and was therefore the heir at law of the deceased child of Jeremiah. Dated October 8, 1812. Another witness named Agness reported that Jeremiah may have attended his deceased son's funeral (see image 592 of the citation). [38] [39] This document disagrees with the death of brother Mace in 1837. William was awarded the land. [40] [41]
1817 William Pickett received a land patent as the assignee for Jeremiah Pickett on April 16. The land was on Paint Creek between the Sciota and Little Miami Rivers, north of the Ohio River. [42] Other land patents to William for Jeremiah may have been transferred to other people. [43] [44] [45] [46]
See also. [47]
A tentative pedigree shows a possible relationship to a son George Pickett. [48]
1786 Jeremiah Pickett, Thomas Parker, Thomas Sanders, and Jn Pickett acknowledged a debt related to Eppaphroditus Thornley in King George County, Virginia. [49] [50]
Mace Pickett was one of a gang of men in debt to Robert Willis, who were incited by Benjamin Rennolds, a tavern-keeper, to destroy the tavern of Robert Willis. Benjamin Rennolds hoped to gain the contract, held by Robert Willis, to supply the court with small beer. Rennolds was indicted, but the jury, mostly friends of Rennolds, refused to convict him. Willis' tavern license was revoked, due to public opinion. [51]
Rev. John Brunskill, of Caroline County, was constantly in tavern brawls and "engaged in a feud with Mace Pickett, the parish bully, which lasted over twenty years." [52]
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[4] John Frederick Dorman, Caroline County, Virginia Order Book, 1740-1746, Part Three 1744-46 (Washington:), 11.
[5] Order Book, 1741-1746, Caroline County, Virginia, page 553, IGN=007644355, image 157, [FamilySearchImage].
[6] Order Book, 1741-1746, Caroline County, Virginia: Caroline. Probate Records 1741–1746, Court Records 1741–1746, IGN=007644355, image 194, [FamilySearchImage].
[7] Patricia Finn Hunter, Pickett Cousins, a 350 year history 1640-1990 (self-published, 1991), 19, [GoogleBooks].
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[9] Larry W. Cates, "Abstracts of Civil Actions from Salisbury Supreme Court 1757-1759," North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 39 (2013), 152.
[10] Ann Brush Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Orange County road orders, 1750-1800 (1989), 67, [Virginia_Department_Transportation].
[11] Mary Marshall Brewer, Essex County, Virginia, Land Records, 1761 - 1772 (2006), 70, citing Essex county deed book 30-24.
[12] Clayton Torrence, "Pickett Family of Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941), 80-86, 186-190, at 187, Deed book 30 p 24, [JSTOR(UM)], [JSTOR(UM)].
[13] Patricia Finn Hunter, Pickett Cousins, a 350 year history 1640-1990 (self-published, 1991), 20, [GoogleBooks].
[14] Mary Marshall Brewer, Essex County, Virginia, Land Records, 1761 - 1772 (2006), 75, citing Essex county deed book 30-57.
[15] "A poll taken for the electing burgesses in Essex County at Tappahannock on ... 24th Novmr 1768" Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (Genealogical Society Quarterly) 6 (1968), middle column, citing Deed book 30, [Ancestry_VGSQ].
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[17] Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, Virginia), Virginia. Genealogies 1607, image 198, Was this the 1765 deed?, [FamilySearchImage].
[18] "A poll taken for the electing burgesses in Essex County at Tappahannock on ... 24th Novmr 1768" Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (Genealogical Society Quarterly) 6 (1968), column 1 and 3, perhaps each person got to vote for 2 candidates, [Ancestry_VGSQ].
[19] Order Book, 1767-1770, Caroline County, Virginia, IGN=007644359, image 216, [FamilySearchImage].
[20] Mary Marshall Brewer, Essex County, Virginia, Land Records, 1772-1786 (2006), 14, citing deed book 31-124.
[21] Newspaper, Virginia Gazette, November 3, 1775, page 3, col 1.
[22] Purdie's Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 3, 1775, page 3, [NewspapersClip].
[23] Virginia Gazette Archival images online, July 11, 1777, page 4, column 1, [VirginiaGazette Image], [VirginiaGazette Browse].
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[35] Land Office Grants Book 60, 1809-1810, State of Virginia: Virginia. Land Grants 1809–1810, IGN=008569922, image 512, [FamilySearchImage].
[36] Deed Book 3, 1798-1806, Russell County, Virginia: Russell. Deed Books 1798–1806, IGN=007898775, image 191, [FamilySearchImage].
[37] Deed Book 3, 1798-1806, Russell County, Virginia: Russell. Deed Books 1798–1806, image 208, [FamilySearchImage].
[38] Land Office Military Certificates, State of Virginia: Powell. Military Records 1782–1876, images 589-593, Agness is named on image 592, [FamilySearchImage].
[39] Transcription from Southern Campaign Rev. War Pension Statements, [URL].
[40] Land Office Military Certificates, 1782 -1876, State of Virginia: Virginia. Military Pension Records 1782–1876, IGN=008459391, image 8, [FamilySearchImage].
[41] Land Office Military Certificates, 1782 -1876, State of Virginia: Powell. Military Records 1782–1876, IGN=008574960, image 590, [FamilySearchImage].
[42] United States. Bureau of Land Management, United States. Patent Records, IGN=105722516, image 462, [FamilySearchImage].
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[48] Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, Virginia), George Harrison Sanford King Papers, image 12439, [FamilySearchImage].
[49] Order Book 4-340, King George County, Virginia, Court Records, image 402, [FamilySearchImage].
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