Descendants of John Bobbet   20 Jan 1578/79

by

Keith Bobbitt

 

 

Descendants of John Bobbet

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  JOHN¹ BOBBET^1,2 was born 20 Jan 1578/79 in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England³, and died Unknown in Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England.  He married MARGARET EDGARE 07 Oct 1600 in Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England⁴.  She was born 16 Mar 1576/77 in Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England, and died Unknown in Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England.

 

Notes for JOHN BOBBET:

John Bobbet

Christening: 20 Jan 1579 Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England

 

Source: Grundisburgh register Church of England. Parish Church of

Grundisburgh.

 

Source of Information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

 

 

More About JOHN BOBBET:

Burial: Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England

Christening: 20 Jan 1578/79, Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England⁵

 

Notes for MARGARET EDGARE:

Margaret Edgare

Christening: 16 Mar 1577 Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England

Father: John Edgare

Parish registers, 1559-1970 Church of England.  Parish Church of Campsea-Ash

 

Source of Information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

 

 

More About MARGARET EDGARE:

Burial: Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England

 

More About JOHN BOBBET and MARGARET EDGARE:

Marriage: 07 Oct 1600, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England⁶

     

Children of JOHN BOBBET and MARGARET EDGARE are:

2.               i.    WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT, b. 18 Oct 1610, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England; d. Unknown, Unknown.

                 ii.    ELSABETH BOBBET⁷, b. 24 Jul 1608, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England⁷; d. Unknown, Unknown.

 

More About ELSABETH BOBBET:

Christening: 24 Jul 1608, Campea Ash, Sufflolk, England⁷

 

                iii.    DOROTHIE BOBBET⁷, b. 20 Jan 1603/04, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England⁸; d. Unknown, Unknown.

 

More About DOROTHIE BOBBET:

Christening: 20 Jan 1603/04, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England⁸

 

                iv.    JOHN BOBBETT, b. 20 Mar 1601/02, Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England; d. Unknown, Unknown.

 

Notes for JOHN BOBBETT:

Parish registers, 1559-1879 Church of England. Parish Church of Camsey-Ash.

 

John Bobbet

Chr 20 Mar 1602 Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England

Father: John Bobbet

 

Source of Information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT (JOHN¹ BOBBET)⁹ was born 18 Oct 1610 in Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England¹⁰, and died Unknown in Unknown.  He married FRANCISSE UNKNOWN Abt. 1645 in Unknown.  She was born Unknown in Unknown, and died Unknown in Unknown.

 

Notes for WILLIAM OR WILLM BOBBETT:

Willm Bobbet

Christening: 18 Oct 1810 Campsea Ash, Suffolk, England

Father: John Bobbet

Parish registers, 1559-1879 Church of England.  Parish Church of Campsea Ash

 

Source of Information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

 

 

More About WILLIAM OR WILLM BOBBETT:

Christening: 18 Oct 1610, Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England¹¹

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBETT and FRANCISSE UNKNOWN:

Marriage: Abt. 1645, Unknown

     

Children of WILLIAM BOBBETT and FRANCISSE UNKNOWN are:

3.               i.    WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT³ ANCESTOR, b. 12 Aug 1647, Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England; d. Abt. 1703, Bristol Parish, Prince George or Charles City, Virginia, U.S.A..

                 ii.    FRANCIS BOBBETT¹², b. 11 Oct 1660, Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England; d. Unknown, Unknown; m. UNKNOWN.

 

More About FRANCIS BOBBETT:

Christening: 11 Oct 1660, Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

3.  WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT³ ANCESTOR (WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT, JOHN¹ BOBBET)¹³ was born 12 Aug 1647 in Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England¹⁴, and died Abt. 1703 in Bristol Parish, Prince George or Charles City, Virginia, U.S.A..  He married ANNA OR MAYBE JOANNA OR MAYBE MISS WHITTINGTON Abt. 1673 in Somewhere in America.  She was born 1652 in Somewhere, and died Unknown in Unknown.

 

Notes for WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR:

Email from Marsha Berry 3-11-2005

 

"The letter "L" is not on any record.  It is best to take the "L" out of William Bobbet's name as it is not proven in any sources.  The "L" has been used by a Bobbitt cousin but it's source was never verified and I put it on only for reference."

 

 

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Source of information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

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Information as of March 2005

 

William Bobbet

Christening: 12 Aug 1647

Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England

Parents: William Bobbet

Mother: Francisee

Message: Extracted birth or christening record

Parish registers, 1545-1910 Church of England. Parish Church of Woodbridge

 

Burial: Ferry Chapel South of Petersburg, Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia

 

Ferry Chapel

The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia

 

William Bobbet sold 95 acres of his land granted to him on 27 October 1673

near the present day town of Hopewell in the seaport town of City Point which is

now extinct and made this sale on 12 May 1703. William Bobbet lived on that

one acre of land until the time was right and he bought land on 18 June 1712

south of the present day town of Petersburg, Virginia.

 

Note: Hopewell and Petersburg are about 20 miles apart, a little more than a day's ride on a horse. Then it is another 11 miles from Petersburg to Jones Hole Swamp south of today's Templeton.

 

William Bobbet purchased 90 acres of land on 18 June 1712 South Side of Jones Hole Swamp in Prince George County, Virginia. As William Bobbet is buried south of today's Petersburg, Virginia, then he died after his land purchase in 1712 as this land went to his son William Bobbet Junior in 1712 and his son WIlliam Bobbet Junior sold the land and purchased land in Rocky Run in 1718 and 1725.

 

Survey for William Bobbet

18 June 1712

Prince George County, Virginia

90 acres on South Side of Jones Hole Swamp

Prince George County Virginia Surveys 1716-1724, page 2

Note: Jones Hole Swamp is 20 miles East of Rocky Run and

a few miles south of Templeton, Virginia.

 

According to the Cash/Malone/Wynne Genealogy:

"Her father Thomas Wynne gave the couple 98 acres "on ye south side of Jones Hole

Swamp." In those days "swamp" meant an area around a slow-moving stream. It was

a valuable piece of land."

 

Survey for William Bobbit

5 Dec 1718

on West Side of Rocky Run

Prince George County Virginia Surveys 1710-1726, page 3

Note: Rocky Run is near today's town of Dinwiddlie, Virginia

 

Survey for William Bobbitt

17 Aug 1725

Prince George County Virginia

254 acres on the West Side of Rocky Run

Land Office Patients No. 12, 1724-1726, p. 278 [Reel 11]

 

Virginia County Boundary Changes:

1643-1701 Henrico, then Charles City, then Prince George County

 

William Bobbet's son William Bobbitt Junior

1712 - guarantee to receive his father's land near Jones Hole Swamp come time his

father's passing

1718 - purchased land near Rocky Run

1725 - purchased land near Rocky Run

 

William Bobbet's son John [of Chowan] Bobbitt

1718 - received land in North Carolina

 

William Bobbet's son John [of Chowan] Bobbitt

North Carolina Archives

Chowan County, North Carolina Cross Index to Deeds - Grantees

1696 -1878 Vol. B, Page 643

State Archives

Raleigh, North Carolina

 

Transaction: Deed of gift

1st Grantee Last Name: Bobbett

1st Grantee First Name: John

Grantor First Name: Jon

Grantor Last Name: Owen

Year: 1718

Note: The above can be seen on RootsWeb.com

 

Note: There are those who theorize that William Bobbit and his wife were married in

Glamorgan, Wales, but, there are no Bobbit or Sturdivant entries on the Glamorgan

pre-1837 Marriage Index.

 

"There are no Bobbitt or Sturdivant entries on the Glamorgan pre-1837 Marriage

Index," Source: John Garath of the South/West Wales Look-up Exchange,

Glamorgan-L Archives, RootsWeb.com

 

William Bobbet's handwritten Land Grant on THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA:

 

BOBBETT

96

 

To all & c: Wheras & c: Now know ye that by said Sir Wiliam Berkeley Knit

[Knight] Goverr [Governor] & c: Give and Grant [Grants] unto the said William

Bobbett a divident of Land conteynning [containing] ninety six acres three rods

24 po [poles]: on the said south side & off [of the] Appomattox River in Charles

City County extending as fflolloweth [follows] - 1 br [branch] beginning at a point

of a hickory nigh Mo [Mr] Whittington his line and runnig no. [north]: said line;

1/3 said line: 200 poles along maire [mayor or major] Cooper his line to a

corner: Continuring said same coursse [course] 40 po [poles]: to a small red

oake nigh said Cattale [Cattail] Stream along the line: by 80: 80 po [poles]: to

a valley to a white oake &c marked four waise [ways], 80 degrees; 56 po [poles]:

to Mr. Whittington his line then up his line ne [northeast]: by 80: 296 po [poles];

no [north]: 6 po [poles], to said place aforementioned the said' Land due by

and for ye transportation of two p'sons [persons] into this Colony to have and to

hold &c: to be held &c: yielding and payding [paying] &c: provided &c; Dated

this said 27th day of October 1673.

John Leader and Richard Tonstall

 

Francis Whittington, 1200 asc., Chas. City Co., S. side of Appomattox Riv.,

at the head of Baylye's Cr., 30 Oct 1673, p. 484, 900 acs. granted Tho. &

Henry Battes, who sold sd. Whittington; 300 acs. for trans. of 6 pers.:

Barth. Batts, Jno. Cumber, Robt. Mevill, Jno. Collins, Mary Mahanes,

Eliz. Wood.

Source: Book: Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Patients and

Grants, Vol. II: 1666-1695, by Nell Marion Nugent, page 136.

 

The Library of Virginia, Land Office Grants

Whittington, Francis

29 Jul 1650

Grantee[s]: Yarrett, William; and Francis Whittington

Description: 580 acres

Source: Land Office Patients No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 216 [Reel 2]

 

27 Oct 1673 - William Bobbett

30 Oct 1673 - Francis Whittington

Why was Francis Whittington on William Bobbet's land grant 3 days before

he had his own land grant on 30 October?

Some land grants were prearranged for being recorded on a certain date. Such

may be the case here, as William Bobbet would have needed to prearrange for

this to be taken care of before his departure on the ship "Martha" from England.

And, it is believed that Francis Whittington was the person to make arrangements

in Virginia.

 

John Leader's surname is Leader and nothing else. John Leader and Richard

Tonstall were the 2 persons transported from England to Virginia around 1673.

 

John Leader chr 21 May 1653 Saint Giles Cripplegate, London, London,

England

Father: John Leader

Message: Extracted birth or christening record

Parish registers of St. Giles Cripplegate Church [London, 1559-1936

Church of England, St. Giles Cripplegate Chuch [London]

 

John Leader's relative William Leader came on the ship "Martha" to Virginia

in 1677 to join John Leader in Virginia and other areas. Another person on

the ship "Martha" in 1677 was Samuel Oldale who was born in England

around 1640.

Source: Leader and Oldale genealogy

 

William Leader chr Jul 1643 St. Botolph Without Aldgate, London, London,

England

Father: William Leader

Mother: Dorethie

Message: Extracted birth or christening record

Parish registers of St. Botolph Aldgate, 1558-1945 Church of England. St.

Botolph Aldgate [London]

 

Richard Tonstall chr 26 Jan 1644 Rystone, Yorkshire, England

Father: William Tonstall

The registers of Fartham, Yorkshire, 1569-1812

 

William Bobbett's 1673 Land Grant was written up in England and

then was copied in Virginia.

 

Even though George Cabell Greer's book: Early Virginia immigrants

1623-1666, does not include the years 1673 and 1674, in the

outline Virginia Help List, William Mecham said:

"This is an alpabetical listing of ca. 20, 000 immigrants with the following

information: name of immigrant, date [probably the year in which "headright"

was claimed, rather than the immigrant's arrival date in Virginia, name of

patentee or other party importing the immigrant, county. Rarely, these is other

information, such as "his wife."

 

"To have and to hold" in the land grant does not refer to a wife. It means that

if William Bobbett does not marry and have heirs, his land goes back to the

King of England who owns the land in Virginia. William Bobbett did marry his

neighbor's daughter and had 3 sons.

 

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500's to 1900's

Name: Wm. Bobett

Year: 1674

Place: Virginia

Source: Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patients

and Grants, Vol. 2: 1666-1695, Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman,

Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977, 609 p., by Nell Marion

Nugent, Page: 146.

 

Land Patient books provide the date of the patient, number of acres

of land granted, general location of the land, and when granted on a

headright basis, the individual names of the headrights/persons for

whom the land was granted.

 

Late 1673 and early 1674 Immigration: Ship "Martha" sail to Virginia

from London, England, stop in Wales

Wm Bobbett

Voyage Origins: Felixstowe, Suffolk, England to London, England

Voyage: London, England to Virginia Colony

 

Abraham Wheelock - shipmaster of ships "Martha" and "Good Hope."

 

Abraham Wheelock filed a Will Aug 1673, "Being now outwards bound

on a voyage to the seas and with all considering the dangers hazards..."

Documents are found in the Public Records Office in London stating

that Abraham Wheelock was the shipmaster of the "Martha" and the

"Good Hope." Will probated 11/372, Public Records Office, London,

Documents E190/59/01 and E190/72/1, Public Records Office, London.

 

Only passengers on the flyboat "Martha" in late 1673:

Wm Bobbet -

Abraham Estes Indentured to Thoroughgood Keeling, who arranged and

paid for passage from England to Virginia

John Skinner -

Book: Virginia Section - Mesa Regional Family History Center

 

John Skinner

Birth: 23 Jan 1653 Saint Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, England

Father: Richard Skinner

Mother: Ledea

Messages: Extracted births and christening record

Parish Registers, 1652-1872 Church of England, St. Gregory's Church

[Sudbury, Suffolk]

Microfilm of originals at the County Records Office, Bury St. Edmunds

 

The ship "Martha" had to be a British ship with British crew and passengers.

 

"William Berkeley lead the military against the colony's remaining Native Americans.

He also organized the defence that prevented a Dutch landing on the Virginia coast in

1673." From Education of the Intenet & Teaching History Outline, Immigration to the USA

on www.sparticus.schoolnet.co.uk

 

Artist Jacob Knyff painted what he saw at the England port in late 1673. The ship, an

English flyboat, loaded with guns, and a few male passengers, was the ship "Martha."

Jacob Knyff: 1638 - 1681

Dock Scene at a British Port by Knyff

Date: 1673

Materials: Oil on canvas

Measurements: Painting 965.2 x 1270 mm

 

Description

England and Dutch ships taking on stores or cargo at a port. The activities relating to the loading has been closely observed. It has been set in a harbor, with the tower of a gate and a quay visable on the right, and the coast in the distance on the left. An England flagship is on the right, firing a salute and flying the ensign from the stern carved with the royal coat of arms. Beside the quay is an English flyboat that, from her shape, was probably Dutch-built.

A royal yacht is arriving on the left and this has prompted the firing of the salute. On the extreme left is the stern of a Dutch ship. On the quay two bales of stores or goods with clear markings have been positioned in the foreground. Men are involved in loading up small craft. a horse dragging a barrel on skids to the water's edge and there are several groups of gentlemen and women observing the activities. A guard stands outside a sentry box in the gate-way.

 

From 1673 Knyff's output appears to have been mostly British coastal or river scenes, with increasing emphasis on accurate and colourful depiction of the great ships of the Stuart navy. Although Dutch-born Knyff came to England when Charles II issued a general invitation to Dutch artists and craftmen to work in England in 1672. Although the two countries were at war, patronage for artists in Holland had diminished and a number took advantage of this offer, including the van de Veldes and Knyff.

Source: National Maritime Museum, London, England

 

Cockett's chapter on Jacob Wouterazoon Knyff in "Early Sea Pioneers" contains a list of Knyff's 37 paintings, some colour illustrations and a short sketch of Knyff's life and

background. Jacob Knyff worked and died in England. As Charles II ordered, Knyff's

paintings must be what he personally witnessed.

 

See more information at http://www.keithbobbitt.com

 

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR:

Burial: Unknown, Believed to be Ferry Chapel Church Yard of Bristol Parish

Christening: 12 Aug 1647, Saint Mary, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England¹⁵

Occupation: Planter

Religion: Church of England

Residence: Present day Hopewell, Virginia

 

Notes for ANNA OR MAYBE JOANNA OR MAYBE MISS WHITTINGTON:

We do not know the maiden name of the wife of William Bobbitt Senior, but believe it was Joanna Sturdivant and that she was called "Anna". The Sturdivant and Bobbitt family came to the colony at the same time and the two families were related but the records are not clear as to the exact relationship.

 

An extensive search to prove the name of the wife of William Bobbitt has failed. His marriage would have been recorded in Wales and the records there do not make a positive case for William. We know that the family in the colony of Virginia was related in some way to the Sturdivant family. It is somewhat significant that John Sturdivant received a land grant on October 28, 1673. The land that John received joined the land that William Bobbitt received on October 27, 1673. The first Bobbitt female mentioned in the records before the year of 1679 was Joanna Bobbitt. Since the sons of William were relatives of the Sturdivants I have concluded that the wife of our William Bobbitt was Joanna Sturdivant and from later records she was called Anna Bobbitt. John Sturdivant was a young man when he received his land grant and was likely the brother of Joanna rather than her father. The Bobbitt family and the Sturdivant family had close relationships which included subsequent marriages to the year of 1750.

 

One may search hundreds of pages of colonial records and find few names of females mentioned in any way. Females were not allowed to buy or sell land. Females seldom inherited land from their fathers or husbands. The maiden names of females were mentioned only in the marriage records and few of these records have been preserved. The females in the Virginia colony were not taxable, but were sometimes listed on the tax lists if they were widowed.

 

Our civil wars have destroyed many of the records that would prove the exactness of our genealogy and substantiate much of our family history. There are questions and answers in the records that have been preserved. Studies of the records along with the history of the people and times the records are dated will with logic and mathematics give us satisfactory answers.

 

It does not matter how changeable the story may be as long as the essence of the story can be substantiated by the records we are fortunate to have as our heritage from history.

 

Source of information:  "The Bobbitt Family In America" by John W. Bobbitt

 

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Anna is on the Virginia records as the wife of William Bobbet.

 

It has not been proven that Anna's surname is Sturdivant, but the Sturdivant family came at the same time that William Bobbet came to the Virginia Colony.

 

Source of information: Marsha Berry

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grosscup1674&id=I3743

 

 

More About ANNA OR MAYBE JOANNA OR MAYBE MISS WHITTINGTON:

Burial: Unknown, Believed to be Ferry Chapel Church Yard of Bristol Parish

 

More About WILLIAM ANCESTOR and ANNA WHITTINGTON:

Marriage: Abt. 1673, Somewhere in America

     

Children of WILLIAM ANCESTOR and ANNA WHITTINGTON are:

4.               i.    WILLIAM⁴ BOBBITT, JR., b. 1675, Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia (Hopewell, Virginia); d. 1738, (Prob.) Warren County, North Carolina.

                 ii.    JOHN BOBBITT, b. 1676, Bristol Parish, Charles City, Virginia (Hopewell, Virginia); d. 06 Nov 1736, Chowan Precinct, North Carolina; m. SARAH GREEN, 1703, Virginia.

 

Notes for JOHN BOBBITT:

John Bobbitt was in Chowan County, North Carolina as early as 1718.

 

By the date of November 8, 1725, we have recorded that John Bobbitt of the Chowan Precinct in North Carolina was married to Sarah Green. We have calculated the birth of John Bobbitt of Chowan as being born in 1678. John was the second son of William Bobbitt Senior to live to maturity. We know from the will of John Bobbitt that he died in North Carolina in 1736.

 

 

 

More About JOHN BOBBITT:

Occupation: Planter

Religion: Church of England

Residence: Chowan County, North Carolina

 

More About JOHN BOBBITT and SARAH GREEN:

Marriage: 1703, Virginia

 

                iii.    JAMES BOBBITT, b. 1680, Charles City, Virginia; d. 1740, Antrin Parish, Halifax, Virginia.

 

Notes for JAMES BOBBITT:

James Bobbitt of Hanover County was the youngest son of our William Bobbitt Senior. James was a mature man with land of his own, and a home of his own in 1708. He was a respected member of Saint Paul's Parish to the extent that the men who were appointed by the vestry to take the list of tithables for the parish were to meet at the home of James Bobbitt. James had to be at least twenty years of age in 1708. He would have been born in 1685 or 1686. James was born in 1685, married by 1705, and the father of Randolph Bobbitt, who received a land grant in 1737 in Hanover County.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

4.  WILLIAM⁴ BOBBITT, JR. (WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT³ ANCESTOR, WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT, JOHN¹ BOBBET)¹⁶ was born 1675 in Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia (Hopewell, Virginia), and died 1738 in (Prob.) Warren County, North Carolina.  He married MARY GREEN¹⁶ 1695.  She was born 14 Feb 1682/83 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, and died in Warren County, North Carolina.

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBITT, JR.:

Burial: Ferry Chapel Cemetery, Hopewell, Virginia

Occupation: Tobacco Farmer

Religion: Church of England

Residence: Bristol Parish, Virginia

 

More About MARY GREEN:

Burial: Ferry Chapel Cemetery, Hopewell, Virginia

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBITT and MARY GREEN:

Marriage: 1695

     

Children of WILLIAM BOBBITT and MARY GREEN are:

5.               i.    LEWIS⁵ BOBBITT, SR., b. 1703, Prince George County, Virginia; d. Aft. 22 Sep 1769, Bute County, North Carolina.

                 ii.    JAMES BOBBITT, SR., b. 1707, Rocky Run, Prince George County, Virginia; d. 20 Aug 1761, Halifax County, Virginia; m. ELIZABETH DALTON, 1734.

 

More About JAMES BOBBITT, SR.:

Occupation: Farmer

Religion: Church of England

 

More About JAMES BOBBITT and ELIZABETH DALTON:

Marriage: 1734

 

                iii.    THOMAS BOBBITT, b. 1710, Prince George County, Virginia; d. 1759.

                iv.    WILLIAM BOBBITT III, b. 1718, Bedford County, Virginia; d. 1786, Bedford County, Virginia; m. LUCY LEFTWICH, Bef. 1752.

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBITT and LUCY LEFTWICH:

Marriage: Bef. 1752

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

5.  LEWIS⁵ BOBBITT, SR. (WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT³ ANCESTOR, WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT, JOHN¹ BOBBET)¹⁶ was born 1703 in Prince George County, Virginia, and died Aft. 22 Sep 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina.  He married ELIZABETH MOORE¹⁶ 1726 in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia, daughter of THOMAS MOORE and ANNE BASSET.  She was born Abt. 1709 in New Kent County, Virginia.

 

Notes for LEWIS BOBBITT, SR.:

Lewis Bobbitt moved from Prince Edward County, Virginia to Granville County, North Carolina about the year 1750.

He settled on a tract of 167 acres on the south side of Reedy Creek in Granville County, now Warren County.  He lived there for the rest of his life.

 

More About LEWIS BOBBITT, SR.:

Occupation: Tobacco Farmer

Residence: Warren County, North Carolina

 

More About LEWIS BOBBITT and ELIZABETH MOORE:

Marriage: 1726, Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia

     

Children of LEWIS BOBBITT and ELIZABETH MOORE are:

                  i.    MARGARET⁶ BOBBITT, m. WILLIAM POWELL.

                 ii.    MARTHA BOBBITT, m. WILLIAM PERSON, JR..

                iii.    UNKNOWN BOBBITT, m. JOHN EDWARDS.

                iv.    MILES BOBBITT, b. 22 Jan 1730/31, Dinwiddie County, Virginia; d. 1794; m. MARY MARTHA POWELL, 1761.

 

More About MILES BOBBITT:

Christening: 23 Apr 1732

Religion: Church of England

 

More About MILES BOBBITT and MARY POWELL:

Marriage: 1761

 

                 v.    WILLIAM MOORE BOBBITT, b. 1738; d. 06 Jun 1825, Raleigh, North Carolina; m. (1) MARTHA TURNER, Bef. 1778; m. (2) LIVELY HIGHT, 1788.

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBITT and MARTHA TURNER:

Marriage: Bef. 1778

 

More About WILLIAM BOBBITT and LIVELY HIGHT:

Marriage: 1788

 

                vi.    AMY BOBBITT, b. 1740; d. Aft. 1790; m. NIMROD WILLIAMS, 09 Mar 1762, Granville County,  North Carolina.

 

More About NIMROD WILLIAMS and AMY BOBBITT:

Marriage: 09 Mar 1762, Granville County,  North Carolina

 

6.             vii.    LEWIS BOBBITT, JR., b. 1742, Amelia County, Virginia; d. May 1818, Warren County, North Carolina.

               viii.    ELIZABETH BOBBITT, b. Abt. 1745; m. CHRISTOPHER ROBERTSON.

 

 

Generation No. 6

 

6.  LEWIS⁶ BOBBITT, JR. (LEWIS⁵, WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM BOBBET - OUR IMMIGRANT³ ANCESTOR, WILLIAM OR WILLM² BOBBETT, JOHN¹ BOBBET)¹⁶ was born 1742 in Amelia County, Virginia, and died May 1818 in Warren County, North Carolina.  He married MARY PERSON¹⁶ 1773, daughter of WILLIAM PERSON.  She was born 1750 in Gibson County, Tennessee.

 

Notes for LEWIS BOBBITT, JR.:

Lewis Bobbitt, Jr. married Mary Person when he was 31 years old.

The 1786 census for Warren County, North Carolina, shows Lewis Bobbitt as the owner of 12 slaves.

 

More About LEWIS BOBBITT, JR.:

Occupation: Planter

Residence: North Carolina and Tennessee

 

More About LEWIS BOBBITT and MARY PERSON:

Marriage: 1773

     

Children of LEWIS BOBBITT and MARY PERSON are:

                  i.    JAMES⁷ BOBBITT, b. 1782; m. MARY GUNN, 10 Feb 1809.

 

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Marriage: 10 Feb 1809

 

7.              ii.    JOHN P. BOBBITT, b. 1789, Warren County, North Carolina; d. May 1866, Orange County, Indiana (no stone found).

                iii.    MILES BOBBITT, b. 1792; m. (1) SUSAN GUNN, 19 Oct 1814; m. (2) MARTHA DAVIS, 01 Jan 1827.

 

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Marriage: 19 Oct 1814

 

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Marriage: 01 Jan 1827

 

                iv.    LEWIS BOBBITT, b. 1794; m. DICEY DUKE, 1815.