The Bobbitt Family In America
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[33]Amy Bobbitt was born in 1763 and was the youngest and last child of John Richard and Amy Bobbitt. She married George James and is believed to have migrated to South Carolina. George James was a brother of Elizabeth James who married Isham Bobbitt, and a cousin to Susannah James who married William Bobbitt.
All the sons remained in North Carolina with the exceptions of Isham and William. Each of the children married and reared large families of their own.
John Richard Bobbitt was a successful tobacco farmer. In the taxable year of 1790, John and his four older sons owned ten percent of the taxable property for that year. John was considered as the fourth wealthiest "planter" in his taxable district.
Despite the wealth and success that these folks enjoyed in the 1700's the early 1800's were difficult years. After the war of 1812 there is much evidence that the sons of John Richard Bobbitt were in economic difficulties. The opportunities to earn a more prosperous living were advertised as part of the move westward. In the early 1800's many of the descendants of John Richard Bobbitt had migrated to Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky.
By the time John Richard Bobbitt died in 1791 there were many relatives of the Bobbitt family. Most of these relatives were in the counties of Warren, Granville, Franklin, and Halifax. While all the family connections with other family names have not been definitely established and proven we know many of the family names that contained some member of the Bobbitt family. Some of these names are listed here:
Alston Powell Kimbel Turner
Johnson Smith Magnum Finch
Moore Williams Fleming Moss
Harris Jones Roberts Woods
Bennett Park Pope Edgerton
Green Duke Browning Capps
James Person Shaw Edwards
Hazelwood Massey Isles Carr
Shearin Davis Bradley Wiggins
Burrows Walker Montford Gholson
Eaton Haithcock Newell Yancey
Dearden Peppins Dowtain Lancaster Myrick