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Notes for William Pickett

1763 William Pickett, perhaps this one, was baptized (so likely over age 12) at the Broad Run Baptist Church in Fauquier County, Virginia. He was dismissed to Loudoun. [1]

1778 Wm. Pickett was granted 340 acres in Fauquier County, Virginia. [2]

1780 Wm. Pickett was granted 420 acres in Fauquier County, Virginia. [3]

1792 William Pickett, perhaps this one, could be noted in this newspaper citatation for Fauquier County: "Delegates to next gen. assembly: Fauquier - Wm. Pickett and Charles Marshall, esq." [4]

A biosketch is given in [5]


Footnotes:

[1] Richard Slatten, "The Early Records of Broad Run Baptist Church, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1762-1783," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (Genealogical Society Quarterly) 26 (1988), 284-96, at 287, [Ancestry_VGSQ].

[2] William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia County Records, Vol. 6 (New Jersey: 1909), 90, [InternetArchive].

[3] William Armstrong Crozier, Virginia County Records, Vol. 6 (New Jersey: 1909), 91, [InternetArchive].

[4] Newspaper, Bowen's Centinel and Gazette - Winchester Political Repository (Frederick County, Virginia), Volume 5 #214 Monday May 7, 1792.

[5] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 211, [GoogleBooks].