Author: Roger D. Patterson
George Prickett was born March 12, 1735 in Virginia, USA (possibly Gun Powder Creek, Virginia) and died in September 1803 in Franklin County Georgia, USA. He was the son of John Prickett (1703-1760) and Martha Taylor (1703-?). Records indicate early Prickett ancestors may have lived in the Virginia territory as early as 1610. George migrated from Virginia to Randolph County North Carolina by at least 1779, and then to Franklin County Georgia in early 1790s, where he lived until his death. He married Mary Johnson of Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA on February 11, 1762, at St. John’s Parish (Baltimore City), Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.

Based on his will and other research, George had ten children. They are: Israel Prickett Sr. (1763-1837), Mary Prickett Young (1764-?), Ann Prickett Knight (1765-?), Josiah Prickett (1767-?), Sarah Prickett Williamson (1769-1836), Elizabeth Prickett Weems (1771-1842), George Prickett Jr. (1772-1825), John Prickett (1774-?), Jacob Prickett (1774-?), and Joel Prickett (1787-1855).

While there is a George Prickett on a “List of Soldiers of the Virginia Line”, and this reference could be this particular George Prickett, there were a number of men by the same name and about the same age. By the time the Virginia Assembly passed the Act of 1781 to reimburse those who served in the Virginia Line, this particular George Prickett was in Randolph County, North Carolina, which was formed from a part of Guilford County, North Carolina.

The definitive record of this particular George Prickett’s service in the American Revolution is a Randolph County, North Carolina record dated March 25, 1782, which states that this George Prickett furnished “corn fodder and sheep” to the army. His claim #131 was presented September 9, 1783, through the Hillsborough Auditor’s Office and he was allowed 17 pounds, 10 shillings, plus interest at six percent, or a total of 18 pounds, 6 pence. It is believed he was paid in land supported by a pay voucher #4605 form the Treasurer’s and Comptrollers Papers, Revolutionary Pay Vouchers – An Account of Specie Certificates paid into the Comptroller’s Office by John Armstrong Entry Taker for land in North Carolina, recorded in a manuscript Volume, Department of Archives & History, Raleigh, North Carolina, titled “Revolutionary Army Accounts” Volume I, Page 88, Folio 3.

Sources:

• “The Prickett Family” book, by Frances W Garrison and Harry Clifford Walker, Jr., 2nd edition 1979.
• Will of George Prickett (Pages 42-42a, Franklin County, Georgia, Minutes, Court of Ordinary – Wills, Inventories & c., May 15, 1786-Sept. 6, 1813, at Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia.)
• Claim #131 presented September 9, 1783, through the Hillsborough North Carolina Auditor’s Office.
• Pay voucher #4605 form the Treasurer’s and Comptrollers Papers, Revolutionary Pay Vouchers – An Account of Specie Certificates paid into the Comptroller’s Office by John Armstrong Entry Taker for land in North Carolina, recorded in a manuscript Volume, Department of Archives & History, Raleigh, North Carolina, titled “Revolutionary Army Accounts” Volume I, Page 88, Folio 3.
• Baltimore County, Maryland, Marriage Records.
• US Census Records.

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