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1758 James Pickett Junior purchased 200 acres of land on Cedar Creek from Anthony Hutchins, executor for the estate of John Leeth. Dated October 28. [1]

1759 James Pickett Jr sold to James Pickett Sr of Anson, for 90 pounds...200 acres, part of 500 acres on south side Great Pee Dee that had been granted to Joseph White in 1746, then to Henry Falkenburg, then to said Pickett, then to Anthony Hutchins, then to said Pickett. Also 100 acres sold by Isaac Norman to James Pickett in 1753. Witnessed by Jesse Summerall and Anthony Hutchins. Dated July 4, 1759. [2]

1759 Justices of Caroline County Virginia were to take depositions relevant to the case now pending in Salisbury Court between James Picket the younger, perhaps this one, plaintiff, and Henry Downes, for detaining a negro woman named Lucy [Luce]. Particularly singles out John Picket the elder and Mace or Mose Picket of Caroline for deposition. James Picket Jr was also contesting Downes' possession of a boy named Daniel. [3]

1761 James Pickett [Senior], of Anson County, to William Pickett [Junior] for £100 proc. money ... land on south side Pee Dee, at mouth of turky cock creek, whereon Isaac Norman formerly lived, 100 acres & 200 acres whereon Henry Falkenburg formerly lived ... James Pickett (seal), withesses: Charity Regney and Thomas Dixon. Dated May 10. [4]

1766 James Pickett purchased 300 acres in Anson County, North Carolina joining the river bank near Terry's line. The same day, Robert Raiford purchased 100 acres of land on Drownding Creek in Anson County. [5]

1770 James Pickett purchased 150 acres in Anson County, North Carolina on the Peedee River. [6]

1771 James Pickett and others were appointed, by the state of North Carolina, as commissioners to lay out a road "from the Frontiers of this Province through the Counties of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Anson, and Cumberland, to Campbelton" [7]. The original appointees neglected the appointment, and were removed [8].

1771 William Pickett and James Pickett, perhaps this one, were named as sheriffs responsible for collecting taxes in the counties of Anson, Rowan, Orange, and Mecklenberg, North Carolina and were given an extension for payment of those taxes to the justices of the inferior courts. The extension was granted in New Bern on the fifth day of December in the eighth year of his Majesties reign. [9]

1776 William Pickett and James Pickett were appointed, with others, for the purpose of erecting courts in Anson County, North Carolina. [10]

1777 James Pickett, perhaps this one, was commissioned to add Anson County to Bladen County: "Whereas the inhabitants of the lower end of Anson county labour under great inconveniences in attending the courts and other public meetings of the county at the court house thereof and being more convenient for those purposes to the county of Bladen are desirous to be annexed thereto. Be it therefore enacted &c That James Pickett, Charles Medlock, Abraham Barns, and Richard Smith esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners and they or a majority of them are required and directed within three months after the passing of this act to run and mark or cause the same to be done a line Drowning creek bank beginning where bridge formerly was thence running the shortest course to the dividing line between this state and the state South Carolina and all that part bounded to the lower end by the line above directed to be marked and along the said south line to where it crosses Drowning creek shall be and is hereby annexed to and made part of the county of Bladen and the inhabitants thereof shall be subject and liable to the same rules orders taxes and privileges as any other of the inhabitants of the said county of Bladen. Ratified in General Assembly, 24th December 1777." [11]

No date, between two records dated 1783, Estate of James Pickett Sr. in Anson County listed accounts due estate: Stephen Brown, Preswood to Crag, George Renek, James Davis, Wm Phillips, John Betty, James McNish, Joseph Culpepper, Thos Harrington, Wm Harrington, Robert Patrick, Thos Davis. Order from Crawford to Patrick, Lawrence Franklin, David Hildreth, John Dunn, note from Little to Thomspon. [12]

1790 James Pickett Sen'r entered 20 acres in Anson County, North Carolina. Dated June. [13]

James Pickett Sen'r enters 20 acres of land on the S.W. side of pee dee Beginning at the 2d corner of old 300 acre tract and running thence No 40 E 80 poles to Ingrams line formerly William Marks line thence No 50 W 40 poles to a stake thence So 50 West 80 poles to a stake thence So 50 E 40 poles to the beginning.

Research Notes:

From Ralph Terry at rootsweb:

"James Pickett, the eldest son and heir of James Pickett, Sr., and his wife, Hannah, was born about the year 1723, and when he came to Anson County in the year 1753, had a young son born that same year. It is not known exactly who his wife was, the mother of the young son, but she must have died young. From the facts available, it is thought that she was Elizabeth Raiford, one of Matthew Raiford's family. This young son's name was James, also, and he became a prominent citizen of Anson County, too.

"James Pickett, Jr., began his service to his State long before the Revolutionary War; he was on the scene during the War of the Regulation, and took his seat in the North Carolina General Assembly in the year 1769, remaining there through 1774, and then was a delegate to three of the Provincial Congresses, August 29, 1775, at Hillsboro, North Carolina; April 4, 1776, at Halifax, North Carolina, and again at Halifax, November 4, 1776. At the first of these Congresses he was present when his brother, William, was appointed captain of the First Regiment of the North Carolina line. At the second one, he was present when this brother was made major of the First Regiment of the North Carolina line. It was at the third of these Congresses that the Constitution of the new State of North Carolina was adopted. He was very active while a member of the General Assembly, accomplishing many things for the progressive improvement of the County and State, as roads, courts, and river navigation. He was made Justice of the Peace in the year 1769. While there is no record of his service as a soldier, he was most outstanding as a leader, a statesman, and a noble citizen of the Revolutionary War period." ("James Pickett, Anson Patriot" by Grady R. Moore, from Patriots of the Revolution with Decendents in Anson County, pages 29-30; originally from The Messenger and Intellingencer (newspaper); compiled by the Thomas Wade Chapter, DAR, Wadesboro, NC. Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina Library.)


Footnotes:

[1] Brent H. Holcomb, Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), 5-355, [AncestryImage].

[2] Brent H. Holcomb, Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), 5-352, [AncestryImage].

[3] Larry W. Cates, "Abstracts of Civil Actions from Salisbury Supreme Court 1757-1759," North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 39 (2013), 152.

[4] Brent H. Holcomb, Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), 3-111, [AncestryImage].

[5] Margaret M. Hofmann, Colony of North Carolina 1735-1764 Abstracts of Land Patents, Vol. 2, (Roanoke News Company, 1982), 55.

[6] Margaret M. Hofmann, Colony of North Carolina 1735-1764 Abstracts of Land Patents, Vol. 2, (Roanoke News Company, 1982), 192.

[7] Walter Clark, The State records of North Carolina, Vol. 23 (Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, 1907), 870, [HathiTrust].

[8] Walter Clark, The State records of North Carolina, Vol. 23 (Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, 1907), 920, [HathiTrust].

[9] Walter Clark, The State records of North Carolina, Vol. 25 (Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, 1906), 520-521, [HathiTrust].

[10] Walter Clark, The State records of North Carolina, Vol. 23 (Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, 1907), 992, [HathiTrust].

[11] Henry Potter, John Louis Taylor, Bartlett Yancey, George C. Mendenhall, Laws of the State of North-Carolina Vol. 1 (1821), 353, [GoogleBooks].

[12] Brent H. Holcomb, Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980), [AncestryImage].

[13] Anson County (North Carolina). Register of Deeds, Land entry records, 1778-1795, 318, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].