Pickett Marvin

Second child of Capt. Timothy Marvin of Lyme and Sarah Perkins, and the Marvin who took the family to Ohio. He was named for his father’s elder brother Pickett (1739/40-1762), and so, at a remove, for Ruth Pickett, wife of Rev. Moses Noyes: “To this alliance we trace the use of Picket as a Christian name in our family,” Salisbury wrote (source).

He went west as a young man. Col. David Barber’s letter of 1881 says: “Pickett Marvin, a young man from the Eastern States, married Polly Warth, a sister of Catharine Fletcher. They settled in Gallia county, where Mr. Marvin served several years as Magistrate” (source). The Warths were a Virginia family of hunters and rangers at Fort Harmar, by Marietta, and the list of “those who resided in or near Fort Harmar throughout the Indian war” of 1791-95 has “Picket Meroin, who married Polly Warth” beside his brother-in-law Joseph Fletcher (source). A county index of Gallia residents puts him at Letart, on the Ohio. He sat for Gallia County in the Ohio House of Representatives in the eighth General Assembly, 1809-10 (source).

In 1819 the family moved to Bloomfield Township, Jackson County: his son Dr. Timothy Marvin, born 6 Jan 1812, “came with his parents to Bloomfield Township in 1819” and died there in 1875 (source). The Marvin genealogy says Pickett “removed to Ohio, and res. in Jackson and Chilicothe, where he accumulated a handsome estate; he m. and had issue, of whom one was Timothy, res. Bloomfield; no further particulars have been learned” (source). He died at Bloomfield in June 1853.

Ruth Marvin, born at Letart in 1802, who married Benjamin Philbrick in Gallia County in 1818 and lived in Bloomfield Township, is very probably another of his children; no record yet names her as his. His brothers included Dr. Seth Perkins Marvin, who “went to Cuba to study the yellow fever, of which he died” at sea in 1799, and Calvin (b. 1784), who went to New York and Michigan. A Calvin Marvin of Letart, a juror, was a different man, perhaps Pickett’s son.

Research: research/hatten/Hatten_Philbrick_Marvin.md.

Open questions

• His estate or will (Jackson County Probate Court, 1853) should name his children, and would settle whether Ruth Marvin was his daughter.
• When and where he married Polly Warth, and whether she was the mother of all his children.