County. The gift was an undisclosed number of slaves. We cannot help but think that Lucy T. Anderson was the mother-in-law of Thomas Bobbitt.
The official register of the land lottery of 1827 in Georgia, records in Register No. 22 that Thomas Bobbitt, Jr. of Twiggs County, in Bosticks District, drew 100 acres of land, Drawing # 25, Section 1, land which was in Lee County, Georgia;
The 1850 census of Twiggs County is very interesting. A computer list of the entire state of Georgia lists only three Bobbitt families and they are all from Twiggs County.
James is the son of Thomas Bobbitt Senior and can be identified in the 1830 census, as well as his brother Thomas Junior.
Descendants of Thomas Bobbitt lived throughout the years in Twiggs County and until the present day.
Bobbitt families other than the family of Thomas Bobbitt moved in and out of Georgia, but none really established roots in the state. In 1880 Twiggs and Muscogle Counties were listed in census records. In 1900 Bulloch, Richmond, Bibb, Macon, Twigg, Marion, Worth, Ware, Laurens, Baldwin, and Irvin counties were listed.
