1789 John Picket was reported to have moved to Kentucky. A published biography of their grandson, Thomas Edward Pickett, reported [1]:
… Dr. Pickett was born on his father's farm four miles West of Maysville on January 11th, 1841, and was a son of Thomas J. Pickett and Margaret Madison (Campbell) Pickett, the former a native of Mason County and the latter born in Fayette County and both being representatives of sterling pioneer families of Kentucky. His father was a man of prominence and influence in Mason County and in the early day was a shipper of farm products to New Orleans. He represented Mason County in the Legislature. Dr. Pickett's grand father, John Pickett, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia and first came to Kentucky in 1789.
1790 John Pickett and Elizabeth Chamberlain received a license to marry on November 20 in Fauquier County, Virginia. John Pickett was a son of Wm S. Pickett. [2] [3]They were married on November 21. [4]
John Pickett was a Colonel, an early settler (1796) in Mason County, Kentucky, and served in both branches of the Kentucky state legislature.
Colonel John Pickett and Elizabeth (Chamberlayne) Pickett were named as parents of James Chamberlayne Pickett in a biosketch. [5]
"Mr. [Thomas] Pickett was one of the sons of Colonel John Pickett, an early settler in Mason county, which he acceptably represented in both branches of the state legislature. Colonel James C. Pickett, the elder brother of Thomas J., was distinguished as a legislator, as a diplomatist, and as a man of letters. 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." [6]
[1] Kentucky Historical Society, Bibliography of Dr. Thomas Edward Pickett of Maysville, Kentucky (1914), 7, [HathiTrust].
[2] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, 1-306, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[3] Junie Estelle Stewart King, Abstracts of wills, administrations, and marriages of Fauquier County (Clearfield, Baltimore: 1939, reprinted 2001), 57, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, 1-447, [FamilySearchImage].
[5] Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. 2, (Lewis Publishing, New York, 1915), 211, [HathiTrust].
[6] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 61, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].