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1743 Henry Pickett, son of John Pickett Sr was named as a cousin in the will of uncle William Pickett, who named no children in his will. Henry inherited the plantation that William had purchased of Thomas May, and wearing apparel. A deed, dated 1737, from Thomas May to William Pickett described land on the head of Cockle Shell Creek. [Cockle Shell Creek is close to Occupation Creek and Piscataway Creek, the original homestead of Henry's father Henry Pickett.] [1] [2] Note that in 1761 brother William Pickett sold land on Cockleshell Creek which Henry Pickett had purchased in 1698.

1742-45 Henry Pickett purchased and sold land on the Rapidan River near Little Fork in St. Thomas Parish, Virginia. Note that St. Thomas's Parish in Orange County partitioned from St. Mark's Parish in 1740.

1742 Henry Pickett purchased 200 acres of land from Thomas Lachary, both of [parish of saint Thomas, perhaps] Orange County, on June 13. The tract was on the Little Fork on the branches of the Rappadan River beginning on the southeast side of the Road that goes from Caves ford. [3]

1745 Henry Pickett of Augusta, Orange County, Virginia, sold 200 acres on June 27, in St. Thomas parish in the Little Fork branch of the Rappadan River. [4]

1766 Henry Pickett, of Augusta County, sold a 100 acre tract that had been given to him in the will of William Pickett, deceased. The land was adjoining lands of James Roy, David Dishman, Robert Carter, William Ayers, and William Noell. Dated November 20. This land was perhaps at Cockle Shell Creek. [5]

Research Notes:

Concerning Henry Pickett at Little Fork on the Rapidan River near Caves Ford:
This could be by Madison Mills, Virginia. Caves Ford is shown on a topographic map next to Madison Mills. Madison Mills in on US Highway 15 between Orange and Culpepper.
VA_Madison_Mills_20160720_TM_geo.pdf Topographic map showing Caves Ford across Rapidan River at bottom middle
If so, it is different from the great fork 12 miles above Fredericksburg [William Picketts ordinary] and Little Fork at the Hazel River and Hedgeman River confluence [nobody].

https://books.google.com/books?id=GQsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1239 Mentions the great and the little fork of the Rappahanock
https://books.google.com/books?id=GQsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1240 1717 Robert Carter, Esq received 2 grants for land at the Fork, 12 miles above the Falls.
The South Fork/Rappahanock River is now called the Rapidan River.
The North Fork/Rappahanock River is fed by the Hedgeman and Thornton Rivers.
Where is the Hazel River? Where is Little Fork?

Letters from Robert Carter concerning Little Fork, which appears to be the fork between the North Rappahanock and the Rapidan Rivers, is confused in footnotes concerning the Little Forks River upstream from there.
https://christchurch1735.org/robert-king-carter-papers/html/C29f02e.html
https://christchurch1735.org/robert-king-carter-papers/html/C29f02c.mod.html

Little Fork Church: Apparently this is at the Fork of the Hazel and the Hedgeman Rivers. There is an "Indian Run" nearby
https://books.google.com/books?id=81
https://germanna.org/2013/09/11/history-of-the-little-fork/
https://www.ieterna.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=351:the-little-fork-colony Little Fork is about 22 miles from the Great Fork (near Germanna) toward the Potomik.

Little Fork by Indian River:
https://books.google.com/books?id=JLdOl_cGF2UC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25 See deed G-62 adjacent to Col Carter.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xyv91vPq_voC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76 See deed A-72
https://colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I032674&tree=Tree1

Road orders:
http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/85-r2.pdf 1734-1749 mentions little fork and caves ford, page 51 and 54. Little Fork on Rapidan, p 81.
Micajah Pickett and James Pickett are named.
https://books.google.com/books?id=I7E6Huw3-JkC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80
http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/90-r6.pdf 1750-1800 Mace Pickett

Cockleshell Creek:
https://books.google.com/books?id=fnEbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311 grant to Robert Payne.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1919747?seq=1
https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I089773&tree=tree1
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.gaines/565
https://essaydocs.org/supplement-to-jackson-tinsley-rucker-timeline-the-early-allied.html?page=2
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lksstarr/knreports/JacksonRuckerTinsleyTimeline1.htm John May on Little Tuckahoe. Mattapony, Occupation Creek.
https://chesapeakeconservancy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RappahannockReport-Final.pdf Map with Piscataway Creek and Occupation Creek and Mattaplni River.

French and Indian War (1754-1753) Henry Pickett, age 19, was listed in Major Andrew Lewis' Company as a sawyer of Augusta County, Virginia of height 5 feet 7½ inches tall. [6]

1748 George/Henry Pickett was tried in Orange County, Virginia for horse theft from Henry Downs. Dated February 2. [7]

1748 Henry Pickett was awarded damages from Thomas Coleman. William Jackson, Susannah Adams, and Samuel Bird testified for Henry Pickett. Dated February 26. [8]

1749 The attachment of William Hunter against Henry Pickett was dismissed in Orange County, Virginia. Dated August 25. [9]

1775 Mace Pickett posted a newspaper notice stating that he had purchased from Henry Pickett (deceased), and was the owner of, 400 acres of land on the north east side of Madison's gap. [10] [11]

1809 The inventory of Henry Picket was recorded in Orange County. A weaver's loom was listed. [12]

A biosketch is given in [13]


Footnotes:

[1] "Essex County Wills, 1743-1747," The Virginia Genealogist 15 (1971), 137-48, 222-9, at 146, [AmericanAncestors].

[2] Clayton Torrence, "Pickett Family of Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 49 (1941), 80-86, 186-190, at 186, [JSTOR(UM)], [JSTOR(UM)].

[3] Orange County, Virginia Deeeds and Court Records from 1734, 8-5, [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].

[4] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed Abstracts of Orange County, Virginia, (1743-1759) (The Antient Press, 1985), 37.

[5] Mary Marshall Brewer, Essex County, Virginia, Land Records, 1761 - 1772 (2006), 90, citing Essex county deed book 30-125.

[6] "Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1 (1893-4), 378-, at 382, [HathiTrust].

[7] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Orange County, Virginia, Orders, 1748-1749 (The Antient Press, 1997), 29-30.

[8] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Orange County, Virginia, Orders, 1747-1748 (The Antient Press, 1997), 70-71.

[9] Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Virginia Court Records, Orange County, Virginia, Orders, 1748-1749 (The Antient Press, 1997), 87.

[10] Newspaper, Virginia Gazette, October 27, 1775, page 2, col 3.

[11] Virginia Gazette Archival images online, October 27, 1775, page 2, column 3, [VirginiaGazette Image], [VirginiaGazette Browse].

[12] Orange County, North Carolina, Estate Folders, Henry Picket, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] Rosemary B. Hill and Dixie J. Clark, A Gathering of Picketts, Vol. 1 Virginia & Kentucky (self-published, 1998), 145-150, [GoogleBooks].