"By the method of computing time of that period the seventh month would be September. Myles Tarne was a leather dresser at Bos

The Bobbitt Family In America

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"By the method of computing time of that period the seventh month would be September. Myles Tarne was a leather dresser at Boston as early as 1638. He and his wife being members of the church, and it is beyond doubt that their daughter, Sarah, was born in England and accompanied them to Boston. Edward Bobbett and his bride began their married life on the little farm purchased from Jonas Austin in 1652." (This farm was located between the river and the old highway between Freetown and Taunton, not far from a stream called Joshua's Creek. The museum of Taunton, today can show you the exact location.)

"In 1658 Edward Bobet in company with John Hathaway and Timothy Holloway purchased 400 acres of land and it was recorded in Plymouth Colony Records, Volume 3, page 189.11

" Part of this tract of land must be the farm which Edward resided on during the rest of his life and which has never been out of the possession of his descendants, the present occupant (year of 1900) Mrs. Edward E. Whitaker, being the seventh descendant from Edward. Her house was the third house to be erected on the land and contained the door and other pieces of the second house built on the land."

"In the proprietors records of Taunton is recorded in 1660 that John Hathaway, Edward Bobbitt, and Timothy Halloway, all of them farmers, shall have their divisions at the head of their farms."

"In 1668 Edward Bobet was chosen a member of the "Grand Enquest" of Plymouth Company, and on June 5. 1671, the names of the persons appointed by the court to view the damage done to the indians by the horses and hogs of the English was, Jon Hathaway, Edward Bobbitt, and James Phillips."

In the above record the name was spelled, BOBBITT as it was in the 1660 record. This was undoubtedly the first time the name was spelled this way in the history of America.

In the records of Taunton there is a written "Preamble" with the dates of 1638 and 1639 of which Edward Bobet was a part. Mr. Browne believes that it was in 1638 that Edward Bobet landed in America. He was also able to prove that Edward Bobet was from the Glamorganshire area of Wales.

Allen Wade Mount Senior found in his research that the Bobbitt families of Wales defended the country against the British.

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