1732 William Sanford Pickett was born in Copley Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. [1]
William Pickett married [Elizabeth] Metcalfe. [2] [3]
1770, 1777 Wm Pickett was listed on the rent rolls for Leeds Manor, Fauquier County, Virginia. There were also listings for William and William ex in Fauquier County, Virginia.
1774 William Sanford Pickett purchased 358 acres from George Mercer, in Bull Run and Little River. [4]
1778, 1782-1797 William Sanford Pickett was taxed in Fauquier County, Virginia. [5]
1795 On 22 September, a marriage bond was issued for William Sanford Pickett and Martha Smith. Witnessed by Minor Winn and William Garner. Bond by Francis Brook. [6] [7]
1797-98 John McFarland brought suit against Martha Smith. John McFarland brought a new summons against William S. Pickett and Martha, late Martha Smith. [8]
1798 William Pickett and Martha gave land to William and James Pickett, Sanford and Libby Smith, Susanna Brady and Anna Pickett. [9]
1798 William Pickett's will named wife Martha, sons John S, Sanford, William S, James S; daughters Patty Fishback, Sukey Brady, Molly Jackson, Sally Metcalf, Anna Pickett, and ? Smith. Witnesses Joseph Smith and William Metcalf. [10] [11] James and William Pickett (perhaps William Sanford's sons) were executors for the estate of William Sanford Pickett and sold 40 acres on Little River to John Wake. The land was William Sanford's residence at death and was adjacent to land of Susanna Brady Channel and Anna Pickett Hathaway (perhaps William Sanford's daughter). [12] [13] Widow Martha renounced rights under William Sanford's will. [14]
Research Notes:
William Pickett was a native of Fauquier County, was a Revolutionary war soldier, a valued captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, and a member of the Burgesses. Martha Metcalfe was of the same blood as that of the "Old Stone Hammer", governor of Kentucky. [15]
William S and Elizabeth Metcalfe Pickett were named as grandparents of James Chamberlayne Pickett in a biosketch. [16]
William Pickett, son of William Pickett & Elizabeth Cooke, married first Elizabeth Metcalf, married second Lucy Young, married third Martha Smith. [17]
"William, the father of Colonel John Pickett, a native of Fauquier county, was a Revolutionary soldier, a valued captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, and a member of the Burgesses." [18]
"The mother of Colonel John Pickett was a Metcalfe, of the same blood as that of the "Old Stone Hammer," governor of Kentucky. The first wife of Governor Metcalfe's father was also a Pickett. The family were of Fauquier—" the fighting Picketts," they are called in Virginia and South Carolina—as noted for their graceful wit in the social circle, as they have been distinguished for gallantry in the field." [19]
A lineage by the Daughters of the American Revolution names son William Pickett, Jr (1773-1848), m. 1803 Nancy Burroughs (1783-1860). [20]
[1] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 173-180, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 61, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 176, The name Metcalfe is undocumented, [GoogleBooks].
[4] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, citing Fauquier County, Virginia Deed 10-127, [GoogleBooks].
[5] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, [GoogleBooks].
[6] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, citing Marriage Bond, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940, [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, citing Minute-Court Order Book M 12-25, [GoogleBooks].
[9] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, citing Fauquier County, Virginia Deeds 14-154, 14-156, 14-168, [GoogleBooks].
[10] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, citing Fauquier County, Virginia Will 3-102, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Junie Estelle Stewart King, Abstracts of wills, administrations, and marriages of Fauquier County (Clearfield, Baltimore: 1939, reprinted 2001), 35, [GoogleBooks].
[12] Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland (1891), 645, footnote, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 (Atlanta, Georgia: Blosser Printing, 1902), 81-82, [GoogleBooks].
[14] John P. Alcock, Fauquier Families, 1759-1799 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing Co, 1994), 281, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 61, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[16] Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. 2, (Lewis Publishing, New York, 1915), 211, [HathiTrust].
[17] Stella Pickett Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America (New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911), 428, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 61, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[19] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 61, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[20] DAR Lineage Book, Vol 120 (1915), 149. 119478, [URL].