Research Notes:
1773 George Pickett, son of William, was indicted for swearing [minute book 5 page 110]. [1]
1790 George Pickett was granted lots 15-26 in Hanover, Virginia from Colonel Page's executors. [2]
1790 George Pickett was named as a Richmond merchant, holding $27,784 of North Carolina's debt. [3]
1796 George and Margaret Pickett, of Richmond, sold to John Pickett 2 tracts of 1000 acres each in Kentucky on the Ohio River, witnessed by Martin and George Jr Pickett. [4]
1798 George Pickett and wife Margaret of Richmond sold land to John Pickett of Fauquier. The land was in Kentucky. [5] [6]
1810 George Pickett, of Richmond, purchased a farm near Ivy Depot, from Clifton Rodes. [7]
1811 "Greetings John G. Smith and Robert Greenhow Gent. Alderman of City of Richmond. Whereas George Pickett and Margaretta his wife by deed 26 Jan 1811 have conveyed to James C. Dickenson tract n Louisa on Elk Creek containing 197 acres adj. sd. Dickenson, Robert Goodwin. Margaretta's relinquishment 10 Apr 1811." [8] [9]
George Pickett, son of William, married Mrs. Flint. [10] [11]
1821 Colonel George E. Pickett, spouse of Margaret Flint Pickett, died on November 9 in Richmond, City of Richmond, Virginia. He was born in 1752 in Fauquier County, Virginia, son of William Pickett and Elizabeth Pickett. [12]
1821 An obituary was published for George Pickett Sr. in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper on November 10. [13]
1838 Margaret Flint Pickett, spouse of George E Pickett, died on May 30 in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia. She was born in 1755. [14]
[1] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 280, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Malcom H Harris, "The Port Towns of Pamunkey," William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series 23 (1943), 514, 515.
[3] Whitney K Bates, "Northern Speculators and Southern State Debts: 1790," William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series 19 (1962), 30-48, at 35.
[4] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 280, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Livingston. Deed Books 1852–1855, 1861–1952, 1855–1858, image 1100, [FamilySearchImage].
[6] Barren. Deeds 1821–1824, 1822–1828, image 502, [FamilySearchImage].
[7] Edgar Woods, History of Albemarle County in Virginia, Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature (1901), 308, of 307-308, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Deed books, 1742-1865; general indexes to deeds, 1742-1872, 1969-1978, M-307, [FamilySearchImage].
[9] Genweb, Louisa County Virginia Deeds, deed M-307, [Genweb_VA_Louisa_Deed_Index].
[10] Louis Alexander Burgess, Virginia Soldiers of 1776: Compiled from Documents on File in the Virginia Land Office (1973), 622, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[11] Louis Alexander Burgess, Virginia Soldiers of 1776: Compiled from Documents on File in the Virginia Land Office (1973), 1336, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[13] "List of obituaries from Richmond, Virginia Newspapers," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 20 (1912), 282-291, at 369, [HathiTrust].
[14] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[15] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 233, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Stella Pickett Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America (New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911), 425, (4-7), 416, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Patricia Finn Hunter, Pickett Cousins, a 350 year history 1640-1990 (self-published, 1991), 12, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Thomas Lee Broun, "The Pickett family", Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, Virginia), Richmond. Genealogies 1607, image 4, names children Caroline (married James Currie) and Robert (married Mrs. Margaret Steele), [FamilySearchImage].