1771 Mace, Wm, John, and Jeremiah Pickett of the Dover District of Goochland County signed a legislative petition in Virginia. [1]
1780 Mace Pickett petioned for improvements to the Dundee Road, through his land, in Orange County, Virginia. [2]
1782 Mace Pickett was listed in the 1782 census for Orange County, Virginia with 3 white people and 3 black people. [3] [4]
1786 Thomas and Patty Strashley, of Westmoreland County, Virginia, sold 1027 acres on west side of Rapidan River in Orange County to Mace Pickett, of Orange County, Virginia, for £400 currency. Dated May 15. Proved by oath of John Pickett. [5] [6]
1788 Mace Pickett and Salley Pickett sold land in Orange County (including land that had been purchased from Thomas Strahley) to John Beadles on February 5. [7]
1787 Mace Pickett and Salley Pickett sold land in Orange County, on the side of the Little Ledge Mountains, to John Goodall on August 6. [8]
1789 Mace Pickett and Salley Pickett sold land in Orange County, on the side of the Rapidan River, to George Anderson on October 27. [9]
1790 Mace Pickett was appointed as overseer of the Dundee Road, in Orange County, Virginia. [10]
1792 Daughter Esther Pickett and Benjamin Powell were married on December 20 in Orange County. [11] [12] [13]
1794 Mace Pickett and wife Sarah sold land in Orange County to Benjamin Powell on October 25. [14]
1794 Mace Pickett and wife Sarah sold, to Obadiah Anderson, land in Orange County on December 22. [15]
1796 Mace Pickett was named in a land sale, perhaps as a recipient, in Orange County. [16]
1796 Mace Pickett (no wife named) sold, to Pressley Thornton, land in Orange County on December 7. [17]
1796 Mace Pickett (no wife named) sold land in Orange County to Ben. James Powell and wife Easter on June 27. Easter Powell was named as the daughter of Mace Pickett. [18]
1798 Mace Pickett petitioned for a road from his house into the Dundee Road, in Orange County, Virginia. [19]
1798 Mace Pickett and wife Sarah (signed by both) sold land in Orange County to Benjamin Powell on August 6. [20]
1800 Mace Pickett brought a complaint against Elliott Jones in Albemarle County. [21]
1801 Cavull and Emitt brought a complaint against Mace Pickett in Albemarle County. [22]
1810 Mace Picket lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. [23]
1815 Mace Pickett brought a complaint against William Plunkett in Albemarle County. [24]
1820 Mace Pickett sold land to Charles Pickett on June 5. The land was on Buck Mountain Creek adjacent to lands of Thomas Salmon's mill, John Dennis/Dumus(?), Thomas Davis, and William Powell. [25] He acknowledged the deed at the Albemarle Court. [26]
1820 Mace Picket lived in Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia in a household with males: 1 (under 10), 2 (16 thru 25), 1 (26 thru 44), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (16 thru 25) and 1 (45 and over). [27]
1837 Mace Pickett died in Albemarle County, Virginia. [28] [29]
[1] Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, page 223, right column, [AncestryRecord].
[2] Ann Brush Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Orange County road orders, 1750-1800 (1989), 164, [Virginia_Department_Transportation].
[3] W. W. Scott, A history of Orange County, Virginia (1907), [AncestryImage].
[4] W. W. Scott, A history of Orange County, Virginia (1907), 237, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, (1786-1791) (The Antient Press), 40-41, Orange County, Virginia Deed 22-199.
[6] Clayton Torrence, "Pickett Family of Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941), 80-86, 186-190, at 190, [JSTOR(UM)], [JSTOR(UM)].
[7] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, (1786-1791) (The Antient Press), 65.
[8] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, (1786-1791) (The Antient Press), 80.
[9] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, (1786-1791) (The Antient Press), 86.
[10] Ann Brush Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Orange County road orders, 1750-1800 (1989), 183, [Virginia_Department_Transportation].
[11] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 323, [GoogleBooks].
[12] Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940, [AncestryRecord].
[13] Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1791-1795 (The Antient Press, 1988), 97.
[15] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1791-1795 (The Antient Press, 1988), 100.
[16] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1791-1795 (The Antient Press, 1988), 37-38.
[17] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1791-1795 (The Antient Press, 1988), 96.
[18] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1795-1797 (The Antient Press, 1995), 42, Orange County, Virginia Deed 21-72.
[19] Ann Brush Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Orange County road orders, 1750-1800 (1989), 218, 219, [Virginia_Department_Transportation].
[20] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, 1797-1799 (The Antient Press, 1995), 84 and 85.
[21] Order Book, 1800-1801, Albemarle County, Virginia, page 238, IGN=008189593, image 118, [FamilySearchImage].
[22] Order Book, 1801-1803, Albemarle County, Virginia: Albemarle. Court Records 1801–1803, IGN=007893706, image 8, top left, [FamilySearchImage].
[23] United States Federal Census, 1810, [AncestryRecord].
[24] Order Book, 1815-1816, Albemarle County, Virginia, IGN=007893708, image 44, [FamilySearchImage].
[25] Deed Book 22, 1819-1822, Albermarle County, Virginia, Deed 22-165, IGN=008539521, image 93, [FamilySearchImage].
[26] Order Book, 1820-1821, Albemarle County, Virginia, page 101, IGN=007837420, image 75, [FamilySearchImage].
[27] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryRecord].
[28] Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature (1901), 402, Appendix 9, Necrology, [GoogleBooks].
[29] Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature (1901), [AncestryRecord].