On September 30, 1796, William Bobbitt sold to Nancy James and her heirs, the 200 acres of land he had received from his father

The Bobbitt Family In America

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On September 30, 1796, William Bobbitt sold to Nancy James and her heirs, the 200 acres of land he had received from his father in 1786, plus the 50 or so acres he had received from his father's will, plus some additional acreage that he probably inherited from his father-in-law. The deed was recorded in Warren County in Book 14, page 310.

William Bobbitt to Nancy James and her heirs, in consideration of 150 pounds of Virginia Currency, 324 acres of land, along Benjamin Kimball's line on the Great Branch, to a corner of George Patterson's line to David Hazelwood's line to William West's line in a path called Kearney's mill path, to a corner of James Johnson's line ........

WILLIAM BOBBITT R. Bobbitt, Jurat David Kimball

The economic conditions of the times were probably the motive for selling this land as well as the in-law considerations. William took the money for the land and returned to his career as a foreman of plantations. In the 1800 census he was listed with his family in Anson County North Carolina.

ANSON COUNTY 1800 CENSUS

William Bobbitt

3 males under 10 (1790-1800) 3 females under 10 (1790-1800)

2 males 10 16 (1784-1790) 1 female 10 - 16 (1784-1790)

1 male 26 45 (1755-1774) 1 female 26 - 45 (1755-1774) 2 slaves

In the year of 1800 he had a family of 5 sons and 5 daughters who were born between 1784 the year of his marriage and the year of the census. There are no records that he owned any land in Anson County and no reason to believe that he lived long in that county.

Isham Bobbitt, brother of William Bobbitt stated in his pension application for his service in the Revolutionary War that he lived in Spartanburg County South Carolina from 1789 until 1803. William Bobbitt does not give us a specific date that he moved to South Carolina but from the records it must have been in the year of 1800. He certainly was not in South Carolina in 1796 as that is the year he sold his land to Nancy James and I am certain that he was the William Bobbitt in Anson County in 1800. His Revolutionary War pension application does, help in getting an early history of William and his family before he was listed in the 1810 census of Chester County South Carolina.

William served in the Revolutionary War before he was married to Susannah James in 1784. His service records should be studied before a reconstruction of his family is made.

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