As near as can be determined from the history of Bristol Parish, the " Ferry Chapel" was located in the present day city of Pet

The Bobbitt Family In America

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As near as can be determined from the history of Bristol Parish, the " Ferry Chapel" was located in the present day city of Petersburg, Virginia. The chapel was near the ferry used for crossing the Appomattox river, and for this reason was called the "Ferry Chapel". The place of worship was surrounded by a cemetery, and in this cemetery is where William Bobbitt and probably his wife were interred in long ago forgotten graves. The Norfolk and Western Railroad Station was built on the cemetery space before the war between the states.

William Bobbitt born in 1649 in Wales, came to the colony in 1673, reared his family on a small farm, and died in 1703.

In the year of 1703, a list of tithables was taken for the combined counties of Charles City and Prince George. The inventory of the counties according to the list of tithables was:

161,239 acres of land

4,045 total number of white souls 1,406 number of tithables (males over 16) 2,639 women and children 625 members of the militia 203 horses Robert Beverly wrote, "That a true account of all these tithables may be had, they are annually listed at crop time, by the justices of each county respectively; and the masters of families are obliged under great penalties, then to deliver to those Justices, a true list of all the tithable persons in their families." In 1703, Prince George county covered all of present day, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, and a large part of Lunenburg counties. With only 1,406 males over 16 years of age, it is easy to believe that many of the people were relatives of each other. It is easy to believe that the more common names of Green, Jones, and Smith, were relatives of the same family names. Certainly the less common names were all members of the same family. The names in the parish records, land deeds, and tax lists, are useful for specifying locations and possible relationships of our ancestors during the early periods of our history. Many of the names in these early records are the wives, in-laws, and cousins of the Bobbitt family members and their daughters. We may never know the exact relationship between the other family names and the Bobbitt name, but we can be sure their names were related. Chronologically the names and the records can be followed through the counties of Virginia into the counties of North Carolina. [16]