Puckett genealogy

 After many years of tracing all the Womack lines in America, I am doing research on my Puckett line.  I am revisiting a lot of old research on Puckett lines, and finding many individuals who were missed, and several mistakes in abstracted records.

Like Womack, Puckett is a big family, but not impossibly big, like Smith.  With Womack, I took all the Womacks (of all spelling variations) in the 1850 census, and tried to trace them back to the ancestral home in Virginia.  For the most part, I have traced most Womack lines.  I am not sure I will ever go into such depth with Puckett.  Just enjoying finding records.

I don't trust anything on the internet.  I do my own research, and draw my own conclusions.

I have gathered lots of Puckett info to organize and type out.

See my page on Puckett Y-DNA testing.  Gary Curtis Puckett published DNA results about 15 years ago.  I have studied these results, and combined them with my research to reach a very different conclusion than Gary.

Most of the Pucketts in America come from the Chesterfield County, Virginia Puckett family.  Chesterfield County was formed from Henrico County in 1749, and the Puckett family was in Henrico by 1655 and likely several years earlier.

There are at least three other Puckett lines in America, though I think they all come from the Chesterfield Puckett family:

1) Timothy Puckett who had a South Carolina land grant in 1736.  Probable son Ephraim had a SC grant in 1756.  The three Puckett men on the 1790 census of Orangeburg District, SC are likely grandsons and/or great-grandsons of the Timothy Puckett with the 1736 SC grant.  Part of this Puckett family went to Barren Co, KY (the part which became Hart Co, KY); the rest went to Amite Co, MS.  I believe the Timothy Puckett who got the 1736 SC grant was the same Timothy Puckett who was the son of John Puckett III and Elizabeth Allen.  DNA testing supports this theory.

2) Peter Puckett, who married Amie Keith on 27 Dec 1775 in St Paul's Parish, King George Co, VA.  This is far north of most of the Puckett family activity in Virginia.  Peter appears to be the father of a few Puckett men who later appear in marriage and tax records of Spotsylvania Co, VA.  Two of the Puckett men moved to Kentucky, and some descendants were there in 1850.   The Peter Puckett who married Amie Keith may be the same as the Peter Puckett from a 1762 Chesterfield Co, VA court record, in which a child Peter Puckett was bound out as an apprentice; no information was given regarding his parents.

3) Parham Puckett was born about 1775, the son of an unknown Puckett man and Mary Ezell who later married William Night/Knight.  In court records of Duplin Co, NC, Feb 1787, Parham Puckett was bound to Edward Dickson to learn to read and write.  Mary Ezell who married Mr Puckett was the daughter of Michael and Sarah Ezell, who sold their land in Mecklenburg Co, VA and moved to Duplin Co, NC, where it appears at least one Ezell son was already living.  The Ezell land was very near the Virginia land patent of Isham Puckett in Mecklenburg Co, VA.  Isham Puckett and Michael Ezell lived in western Mecklenburg Co, very near the line with Brunswick Co, VA.  The Parham family was nearby, perhaps the source of Parham Puckett's first name.  Solomon Puckett, likely son of Isham, signed the 10,000 Name Petition (for religious freedom for Baptists) in Virginia in 1776; his name appears in the same column as Benjamin Ezell and Richard Ezell and other men with surnames from western Mecklenburg and eastern Brunswick..  A Solomon Puckett was a Revolutionary War solder in NC, and his Captain had earlier been part of a unit based in Wilmington, NC, very near Duplin Co, NC.

Lots more Puckett info coming soon!