1805 Mary Jones was named as a daughter of Micajah and Kizannah Pickett. Micajah Pickett gave a bond to Kizannah Pickett and an agreement of separation, dated on January 10. The agreement named children William, Micajah, James, John, Reuben, and Charles; and Jeptha, Isaiah, Elizabeth Mobley, Mary Jones, Charles Pickett. [1] [2] [3] [Transcription] Separation agreement Kizannah and Micajah Pickett. Micajah and Kisannah Picket made their final separation agreement in Greenville District, South Carolina [Greenville, South Carolina Bond Book A-46, registered June 15, 1825]. Micajah legally parted company with Kisannah, to live with his mistress, Susannah Johns.
1823 Mary Jones was named as a daughter of Micajah and Kizannah Pickett. The Equity Court of Greenville, South Carolina reported a Bill for discovery and relief by Kizannah Pickett, plaintiff, and Isaiah Pickett et al as defendants. The defendants were Jeptha Pickett, Isaiah Pickett, Sam'l Mobley & Elizabeth his wife, Hiram Whitted, Susannah Johns, James McKinney, Susannah his wife, Matilda Johns, Malachi Johns, Joseph Johns, Benjamin Johns & Eliza Johns. [4]
To the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Equity of the Said State.
Humbly complaining sheweth unto your Honours your oratrix Kizannah Pickett that about the year [blank] she was lawfully married to Micajah Pickett late of Greenville district now deceased to whom she brought a marriage portion of considerable value and equal to his expectations; that they lived together as married persons for many years, during which she bore him ten children of whom eight are now living, that during the whole period of their cohabitation your oratrix demeaned herself in every respect as a loving virtuous and obedient wife; and by her prudence, industry and economy contributed largely to the comfort & happiness of her Husband, to the maintenance & education of their children; and to the increase of their property; that a short time previous to the year 1800 the said Micajah Pickett, for causes unknown to your oratrix, and which if known it might be improper to disclose to your Honours, ceased to regard your oratrix with the esteem and affection he had before appeared to cherish for her, and ceased to treat her with the respect due to a wife, and finally that about the year 1800 he wholly withdrew his protection from her and abandoned her in her advanced age, without provision for her future subsistence and comfort; and carried with him all their property except one negro man, and a small girl violet then & for many years after rather an expense than a benefit; that upon such separation taking place the said Micajah agreed with your oratrix, that if she would forbear to molest him with lawsuits or controversy during his life, and relinquish all claim to his Estate except what she had received (the negro man & the girl violet which he yielded up to your oratrix) then the said Micajah in consideration thereof would cause to be paid to your oratrix on the day of his death, or as soon after as practicable such sum as should be scertained to be the value of the property kept & carried off by him on the separation that your oratrix well aware that she was that she had good cause of legal controversy against the said Micajah both for past misconduct as well as for her future maintenance, which he also well knew and justly apprehended, was yet ? to a public description of her private wrongs, and gladly availed herself of an opportunity to save the feelings of her numerous offspring; she therefore yielded her consent to the proposition of the said Micajah, But that your oratrix being wholly unskilled in the Law was ignorant of the form in which such an agreement ought to be drawn so as to have its due legal effecacy; and confiding in the integrity and sincerity of her husband and in his affection for his children if not for herself she unhesitatingly pursued the course suggested by himself; and on the 12th day of December 1800 about the time of the separation she entered into a Bond with ample security to the said Micajah, in the sum of six thousand dollars, with a condition that she should not molest him with lawsuits or contraversies of any kind; and that she should relinquish her claim on his estate except what he had allowed her: a copy of which Bond is herewith filed marked A and which your oratrix prays may be taken as part of his will: your oratrix further complaining shows to your Honours that it was then agreed and distinctly understood as the consideration and only condition on which her said bond was given that, as soon as the value of the property retained by the said Micajah Pickett and withdrawn? from its proper object the maintenance of your oratrix & her children could be ascertained, then the said Micajah should enter into a Bond to your oratrix to pay to her and to certain of her children as yet unprovided for the value of the property with interest; and that accordingly on the 10th day of January 1805 he the said Micajah executed his bond to your oratrix, a copy of which is also herewith filed marked B (and which may be regarded as part of her bill) in a penalty of thirty thousand dollars with a condition to pay at his death to your oratrix her heirs or assigns nine thousand eight hundred and fifty silver dollars with lawful interest from that date; which sum was by the said bond to be thus distributed viz Fourteen hundred Dollars to our son Jeptha Pickett; Fourteen hundred dollars to our son Isaiah Pickett, one thousand dollars to our daughter Elizabeth Mobly, four hundred dollars to Mary Jones another daughter and lastly the sum of five thousand six hundred & fifty dollars to your oratrix with interest as aforesaid from the 10th day of January 1805; which Bond was duly & solemnly executed in presence of three subscribing witnesses.
1823 Mary Jones was not named in the will of Micajah Pickett as recorded on February 15 in probate court. [5] [6]
1829 Distributions were made from the estate of Micajah Pickett according to a document dated July 10. Distributions were made to Kezanna Pickett, Isaiah Pickett, Jeptha Pickett, Mrs Elz Mosley, Mrs. Mary Jones. [7]
[1] Fairfield County, South Carolina Deeds, DD-295, [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].
[2] Fairfield County, South Carolina Deeds, EE-161, [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].
[3] Anne K. McCuen. Abstracts of Some Greenville County, South Carolina, Records Concerning Black People Free and Slave 1791-1865, Vol. 1 (1991), 55, cites #187, Vol O, p 266, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Greenville County, South Carolina, Equity Court Rolls, Roll 8, image 121, Kisannah Pickett vs Isaiah Pickett, [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].
[5] South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977, Greenville, Will B-38, [FamilySearchImage].
[6] South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Online abstract Ids have been changed. Search at first link and right-click image. Then Open Image in new tab to get the URL., Will B-38 abstract, Series S108093, [Search1], [Search2], [Search3].
[7] Greenville County, South Carolina, Equity Court Rolls, date is on prior page, [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].