The first record of James Bobbitt Junior outside of Pittsylvania County was in Montgomery County, Virginia, in that section tha

The Bobbitt Family In America

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The first record of James Bobbitt Junior outside of Pittsylvania County was in Montgomery County, Virginia, in that section that later became Grayson County, and later is today Carroll County.

"Survey for James Bobbitt, December 7, 1782, 150 acres of land on Big Reed island Creek, branch of New River."

It was on this land that James Bobbitt and his wife Elizabeth McKenzie lived and where all of their children were born. The land was located near the family of his brother Captain William Bobbitt.

Shortly after James Bobbitt received the land grant located in Pulaski County, Kentucky, he and his family moved from Virginia. Many relatives moved with James, mostly the McKenzies, his sister, Jane Bobbitt Morgan, various members of the Williams family and others from the Grayson County area.

A few years after James and His family moved from Virginia, his nephew James Levi Bobbitt and-his family moved to Pulaski County. James Levi Bobbitt married Rebecca Day in Grayson County in 1796 and was living in Pulaski County in 1804. When James Levi Bobbitt arrived in Kentucky he and his family made their home with James and Elizabeth Bobbitt. The 1800 census for Kentucky and Virginia was destroyed. Fortunately the 1810 census survived and we have this record of both families and the only Bobbitt family recorded in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

James Bobbitt

1 male under 10 (1800-1810) 1 female under 10 (1800-1810)

1 male 10 - 16 (1794-1800) 1 female 10 - 16 (1794-1800)

1 male 26 - 45 (1765-1784) 1 female 16 - 26 (1774-1784)

1 male 45 & over (........ -1765) 1 female 45 & over (........ -1765)

The oldest male and female is of course James and Elizabeth (McKenzie) Bobbitt. The next oldest male and female is James Levi and Rebecca Bobbitt. All the children are the children of James and Rebecca Bobbitt.

We know nothing for certain about the children of James and Elizabeth (McKenzie) Bobbitt. There are in close by counties of Kentucky recorded marriages of daughters or female Bobbitts who cannot be placed with any family other than that of James and Elizabeth. This leads us to believe that they may have had three daughters. We also know that a John Bobbitt lived in Lincoln County Kentucky in Crab Orchard who by his age might well be the son of James and his wife.

It is also possible that none of their children lived to maturity and there is evidence to support this inasmuch as James and Elizabeth made their home with James and Rebecca Bobbitt and that James and Rebecca continued to live on land owned by James and Elizabeth before their deaths.