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[25]"Survey for John Bobbitt of 125 acres of land in Granville County on both sides of the Great Branch of Little Fishing Creek. By Thomas Haywood, Surveyor." Witnessess: Thomas Williams, Charles Carr.
Also in the state archives is the original land grant to John Bobbitt of 175 acres of land and the description of the land is clearly in Warren County of the present time.
John Earl of Granville, Viscount Carteret, and Baron Carteret of Hawness, in the county of Bedford, in the Kingdom of Great Brittain, to John Bobbitt of Granville County, in the Province of North Carolina, Planter.... The Parish of St. John. 175 acres of land, on both sides of Fishing Creek, the Great Branch, in Thomas Williams, line.
John Bobbitt now owns a plantation of 575 acres of land. In 1765 John Bobbitt was the highest bidder for 295 acres of land at a sale held by William Johnson, sheriff of the county. John purchased this land on March 20, 1765 and sold the same land and the same number of acres on July 16, 1767 to Peter Smart. Drury the son of John Bobbitt was old enough to be a witness to this act.
On January 8, 1772 John Bobbitt Senior purchased 100 acres of land from William Davis Jr. Apparently this land was for his son John Bobbitt Junior who was under age at the time. John Bobbitt Junior sold this land on May 11, 1778.
There are no records to indicate that John Bobbitt purchased any land after 1765. There are only two records of John Bobbitt deeding land to his sons. One was to John Junior and the other was to his son William, recorded in Warren County Book 9, page 2, on April 29, 1786.
John Bobbitt Senior to William Bobbitt, 200 acres of land for twenty pounds specie, but more especially for the good will he beareth to him. Land in Warren County, near the road that leads to Warrenton and to Halifax, and on the Great Branch to Thomas Judkins line, by George Patterson, Leonard Kimball's and Sterling Harris.
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