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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]

1810 Mace Picket lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. [21]

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). [22]

Research Notes:

1837 Mace Pickett died in Albemarle County, Virginia. [23] [24]


Footnotes:

[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] United States Federal Census, 1810, [AncestryRecord].

[22] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryRecord].

[23] Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature (1901), 402, Appendix 9, Necrology, [GoogleBooks].

[24] Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving Some Account of what it was by Nature (1901), [AncestryRecord].