1794 Ann Pickett and Francis Brooke received a marriage license dated October 25 in Fauquier County, Virginia. [1]
Ann Pickett, daughter of Martin Pickett and Blackwell, married Francis Brooke. They had children Martin P. Brooke, who married McClanahan, and Judith Pickett, who married Stanton Slaughter. [2] [3]
A biosketch reports [4]:
Francis Brooke married Nancy Pickett, daughter of Martin Pickett. Mr. Charles Marshall (grandfather of Mrs. M. M. Green, of Warrenton. Va., whose mother was a daughter of .Mr. Robert I. Taylor, of Alexandria), married another daughter of Martin Pickett, and Judge John Scott married still another. Martin Pickett was the colleague of Humphrey Brooke from Fauquier, in the Virginia Convention, which met in Richmond, June, 1788. to ratify or reject the "new" Constitution of the United States. Issue of Francis Brooke and Nancy Pickett were as follows :
(A) Martin Pickett Brooke, m McLanahan and died without issue; he adopted the daughter of his first cousin, Mr. Alexander I. Marshall; she married Mr. Moses Green, of Fauquier; he also adoptedCatherine Travis Clarkson, who married a son of Chief Justice Marshall.
(B) Francis Brooke, married ? Morgan and died without issue. He was the law partner of his uncle (by marriage) Judge Scott, and the settlement of his estate caused the noted Scott and Brooke suit. (See Beverley vs. Brooke, et al. ; Same vs. Pickett, II Leigh, 425: Beverley vs. Brooke, ct al.; Same vs. Scott, et al, IV Grattan, 187.) The bitterness caused by this suit is shown by the fact that Mr. Moore, counsel for Brooke, killed R. E. Lee, son of Charles Lee and grandson of "Light Horse Harry." Lee was son-in-law of Scott.
[1] Fauquier County, Virginia Marriage bonds and returns, 1759-1854; marriage register, 1854-1906, [FamilySearchImage].
[2] Louise Pecquet, Some prominent Virginia families (1907), 61, [HathiTrust].
[3] Louis Alexander Burgess, Virginia Soldiers of 1776: Compiled from Documents on File in the Virginia Land Office (1973), 622, [GoogleBooks], [AncestryImage].
[4] St. George Tucker Brooke, "The Brooke Family of Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 15 (1907-08), 200-204, at 203, [HathiTrust].