1825 Micajah - Kizannah Pickett Separation
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2 of 5 Fairfield District, South Carolina,

Recorded in Book A page 46 the 15th June 1825 by William Choice

South Carolina, Fairfield District. Know all persons whom it may concern that Mr Micajah Pickett Senr and Kizannah Pickett the wife of the said Micajah Pickett have this day made a final separation and settlement. Know ye that I Micajah Pickett Senr of the State of North Carolina and Rutherford County have this day given to my said wife Kizannah Pickett my Bond of this state for thirty thousand dollars conditioned and payable to the said Kizannah Pickett on the day of my death, which amount of the said bond that is to be paid on the day of my death to the said Kizannah Pickett is nine thousand eight hundred and fifty silver dollars with lawful interest from this date until paid in the manner following that is to say pay to our son Jeptha Pickett fourteen hundred silver dollars with lawful interest until paid also pay to our son Isaiah Pickett fourteen hundred dollars with lawful interest until paid also pay to our daughters Elizabeth Mobly one thousand dollars with lawful interest until paid, also pay to our daughter Elizabeth Mobly one thousand dollars with lawful interest until paid, also pay to our daughter Mary Jones four hundred dollars to be paid in a young negroe girl for her use during of the said Mary Jones life andat the death of the said Mary Jones, the said girl to be property of our son Charles Pickett to him and his heirs for ever and lastly pay to my said wife Kizannah Pickett five thousand six hundred and fifty silver dollars with lawful interest from this date until paid; which know ye that that we the said Micajah Pickett Senr, Kizannah his wife do duly constitute and appoint our son Jeptha Pickett & Charles Pickett & James Pickett and Samuel Mobly either of them as trustees for the use of the said Kizannah Pickett and that she the said Kizannah Pickett or the said Jeptha Pickett or Charles Pickett or James Pickett or Samuel Mobley or either of them, shall on the day of the death of the said Micajah Pickett, or as soon thereafter as can ? ask, demand & receive from the executors or administrators or assigns of the said Micajah Pickett Senr all the said amount of the said nine thousand eight hundred and fifty silver dollars with all the lawful interest from this date until all the amount is duly paid and the said five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars that is due to the said Kizannah Pickett and all of its interest shall be retained and kept in the hands of either of the said trustees for the use of the said Kizannah Pickett during of her lifetime, and the said trustee is hereby either of them required to see that the said Kizannah Pickett is comfortable and decently supported in everything that her condition may require having regard to her station, and that the said trustees or trustee is hereby further authorized and empowered to pay all accounts that may ? due from this day until the death of the said Micajah Pickett Senr that may be for this support and maintenance of the said Kizannah Pickett, and having regard also to the labiour? Of the two negroes viz Jen and Violet as the case may be: and at the death of said Kizannah Pickett all the residue of the said five thousand six hundred and fifty silver dollars and all of its interest that may be there ib tge said trustees or trustee shall equally divide and pay over to our six sons to wit William Pickett, Micajah Pickett Junr, James Pickett, John Pickett, Reuben Pickett, Charles Pickett to their use to them and their heirs forever as witness hereunto we doth set our hands and affixed our seals this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord A D one thousand eight hundred and five. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of James Knox, Reuben Starke, William Foidden. Micajah Pickett. Kizannah (mark) Pickett. A true copy.

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