1721 Blessing Pickett, daughter of John, married Richard Sanders. [1]
1721 On 26 December, John Pickett of St. Mary's parish, Essex county to his daughter Blessing Saunders and her husband Richard Saunders, conveying plantation whereon said Richard Saunders now dwells it being 182 ½ acres which said John Pickett took in co-partnership between Catherine and Elinor Provers and himself as per patent. [2] [3] [4]
1721 John Pike acknowledged, on February 20, his deed to Richard Saunders & Blessing Saunders in Essex County. [5]
[1] Eva Eubank Wilkerson, Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655-1900, limited viewing, (Clearfield, 1953), 189, citing Book Box 105, page B, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Clayton Torrence, "Pickett Family of Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941), 80-86, 186-190, at 85, [JSTOR(UM)], [JSTOR(UM)].
[3] Genealogies of Virginia Families IV: Healy-Pryor: Virginia. Genealogies 1659–1870, IGN=007951270, image 414, bottom left, [FamilySearchImage].
[4] Research Note (citation not recorded): Essex County, Virginia, Deeds &c, 1721-1724, p 25.
[5] Order Book 5, 1716-1723, Essex County, Virginia: Essex. Court Orders 1716–1723, Court Records 1716–1723, page 620, IGN=008358876, image 359, [FamilySearchImage].