The Bobbitt Family In America

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King George II of England to Lewis Bobbitt of Granville County, Province of North Carolina, Planter. 450 acres of land, on the south side of Reedy Creek.

Lewis Bobbitt was born in Prince George County Virginia in 1703. He was a son of William Bobbitt Junior, and a grandson of William Bobbitt, the immigrant ancestor, from Wales. His father William Bobbitt Junior married Mary Green, who was a sister of Sarah Green, who married John Bobbitt of Chowan. John Bobbitt of Chowan was a brother to William Bobbitt Junior. Both John and William were born in Charles City County Virginia in that section which became Prince George County in 1705.

Lewis Bobbitt married Elizabeth (Moore) in 1726. The marriage probably took place in Bristol Parish in Prince George County. In the Parish records is the following entry:

Miles Bobbitt, son of Lewis and Elizabeth Bobbitt, born 22nd of January 1731, baptized, April 23, 1732.

Between 1726 and 1732, Lewis Bobbitt moved from Prince George County into Brunswick County and staked a claim to land along the Bush River in that section of Brunswick County which was later formed into Prince Edward County Virginia.

William Bobbitt Senior of Granville County North Carolina, a double first cousin of Lewis Bobbitt, received a land grant on March 25, 1749 of 600 acres on the south side of Little Fishing Creek. The land is in present day Warren County. William Bobbitt undoubtedly passed this good news to his cousin, Lewis Bobbitt.

On June 7, 1749 a survey was made for Lewis Bobbitt in Granville County on the south side of Reedy Creek for 450 acres of land. The land was granted to Lewis Bobbitt on April 24, 1753. This land is in present day Warren County North Carolina.

When Lewis Bobbitt moved to North Carolina, there existed a wagon road thru the wilderness that ran in an easterly direction from Bush River where Lewis lived in Virginia. Within a short distance this road, called the Batts and Fallam route met and merged with a road coming from the Ferry Chapel area in Virginia to the Bobbitt land area of Granville County. It was also the route taken by North Carolina planters when they took their crops of tobacco to market at a point on the Appomattox River near present day Petersburg Virginia.

Lewis settled on a tract of land on the south side of Reedy Creek, not far from the present Grove Hill community. It is some ten miles below the Virginia border.