1787 Charles Marshall and Lucy Pickett were married on September 11, in Fauquier County, Virginia. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Lucy Pickett married Charles Marshall, brother of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. [5]
Mary Macon, daughter of Sarah Ambler and William Hartwell Macon, of New Kent County, Virginia, born 1779; died 1812. Married William Marshall, born January 31, 1767; died 1815, Richmond, Virginia., brother of John Marshall, Chief Justice U. S., and twin brother of Charles Marshall, who married (Sept. 3 [sic], 1787) Lucy Pickett, b. May 2, 1767; d. 1825. William Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He is remembered as a talented, eloquent and successful lawyer at the Richmond Bar. He was married three times; 1st, Alice Adams; 2nd, Mary Macon; 3rd, Maria C. Winston (Price).Charles Marshall (twin), b. at "Oakhill," Fauquier County, Va., 31st January, 1767; d. at Warrenton, Va., 1805; m. 13th September, 1787, Lucy Pickett, b. 2d May, 1767; d. 1925. [6]
1825 Lucy Pickett, daughter of Colonel Martin and Anna Blackwell Picket died 1825. [7]
A biosketch of son Martin P. Marshall reports [8]:
Colonel Charles Marshall, of General Lee's staff, and now a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, is a nephew of Martin P. Marshall. The latter passed his boyhood in the family of his uncle, Chief Justice Marshall, and under his instruction. At the age of eighteen years, he came to Mason county, Kentucky, and completed his legal studies under his uncle, Alexander K. Marshall. He practiced for a few years with success in Paris, Kentucky, and in Cincinnati, attracting attention by his popular talents as well as by his acute legal acumen. Ill health forcing him to abandon a profession for whose highest walks he was admirably adapted, he retired to a large body of land he had inherited in Fleming county, cleared and improved it, built upon it a spacious mansion—long the seat of hospitality—and in the life of a farmer was as successful as he had been at the bar. Agriculture did not monopolize his time. His father and twin-brother, William, had owned many thousands of acres of land in Pendleton and the mountain counties, upon which persons having no legal right had settled; in recovering possession of these lands, and in discharging the duties of county attorney, he was frequently before the courts, winning a reputation for legal knowledge, shrewdness, and tact second to that of no other in Northern Kentucky. In 1825, he was the able representative of Fleming county in the state legislature. In 1835, he was the Whig candidate for Congress against Judge Richard French—the most astute and dextrous Democratic politician then in the state. In that mountain district, there were thousands of disputed land titles, and many hundreds of voters occupying lands to which they had neither legal nor moral claim. The superiority of Marshall to his opponent upon the stump was apparent wherever they met;—no one was superior to Judge French as an electioneerer. Richer in resources, more powerful in debate, as an orator more eloquent, Mr. Marshall towered above his wily antagonist in every discussion. The Democrats grew alarmed. Shortly before the election, scandalous circulars were distributed misrepresenting Mr. Marshall's conduct in the land litigation into which he had been forced, imputing to him as an offense the ability with which he had maintained his own and others' rights. He was defeated. Logic, rhetoric, declamation, wit;—all went down before the power of organization and secret slander. Mr. Marshall was three times a presidential elector—in 1832, '36, and '40. He was a Whig, and canvassed his district in these several campaigns. At this period of his life, he was an electrical public speaker. With the small, well-shaped feet, and long, slender hands of the Picketts, he had their thrift, practical sense, and their wit, bright, flashing, and keen as the forked lightning. He excelled in powers of withering sarcasm. A little above the medium height, his person was slender and well formed; his manners, when he chose, conciliatory. His eye was a dark hazel, with an iris that dilated or contracted, and, when animated, was bright and piercing. His forehead was not high, nor very broad, but widest at the eyes, square and compact, and brow very prominent. His mobile face gave expression to the alternation in his moods, tothe shifting current of his ideas; changing from gay to grave, from the humorous to bitter scorn, and again to impressive earnestness, as he kindled with his own zeal in the discussion of his topic. His delivery was animated, his gesticulation vehement, his voice full and resonant. In 1850, Mr. Marshall was a member of the constitutional convention. In that body he favored an open clause permitting future emancipation of the slaves, and opposed the system of an elective judiciary. In 1861, the Union men of Mason and Lewis counties elected him to the state senate. The story of the Union cause in the commonwealth is that of his career. All his life he was a man of sense, sagacity, and weight, impressed himself upon the community in which he lived, and in public affairs made himself felt.
[1] Elizabeth Petty Bentley, Virginia marriage records: from the Virginia magazine of history and biography (1984), 182, [GoogleBooks].
[2] "Marriage Bonds in Fairfax [sic Fauquier]," William and Mary Quarterly 12 (1903-1904), 256-258, 258, Handwritten note: "Fauquier", [GoogleBooks].
[3] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, 1-211, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] Louis Alexander Burgess, Virginia Soldiers of 1776: Compiled from Documents on File in the Virginia Land Office (1973), 622, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[5] Louise Pecquet, Some prominent Virginia families (1907), 53, [HathiTrust].
[6] Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, eds, Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775, 7 Vols (1912, Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 (Atlanta, Georgia: Blosser Printing, 1902), 81, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (1889), 168, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].