January 8, 1772 John Bobbitt to William Davis Junior. John Bobbitt Senior paid for 100 acres on the north side of Reedy Cree

The Bobbitt Family In America

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January 8, 1772.... John Bobbitt to William Davis Junior. John Bobbitt Senior paid for 100 acres on the north side of Reedy Creek. Witnesses: Wm. Davis, Charles James.

January 29, 1773.... Lewis Harris of Southampton County Virginia to Drury Bobbitt, 479 acres in St. John's Parish, on south side of Ben's Creek, adjoining Moseley and Mabry. Witnesses: Nathaniel Harris, William Davis.

February 15, 1773.... John Alston to Drury Bobbitt north side of Ben's Creek.

December 1, 1773.... Jessie Walker of Bute County to Stephen Bobbitt, 250 acres of land on branch of Ben's Creek, Piney Branch, beginning in Thomas Persons line to Michael Harris line. Witnesses: Isham Meadows, Michael Harris, Drury Bobbitt, jurat.

These deeds give us the names of the people living in the same general area. It is the members of the Bobbitt family and their near neighbors.

The names of witnesses were often relatives, and these same names will appear again and again in the records which concern the Bobbitt family.

One of the most interesting records of Bute County was the tax list taken in 1771. There were no members of the Bobbitt family on the delinquent list of tax payers. There are two copies of the tax list in the North Carolina State Archives. One is in alphabetical order and is not satisfactory. The other is a list from the private collection of Thomas M. Pittman and is a copy of the original. It lists the tax payers just as they were approached. The grouping of the names and the names in between make this list very valuable. Each list was taken by a separate person for a given area of the county. The tax was for the head of household and all sons over the age of 17, and all male slaves. The name of the head of household was listed and then the total number of persons who were taxable.

The list does not include any Bobbitt family living in the Counties of Orange or Granville or Halifax. Only those families who were living in what is today Vance, Warren, and Franklin Counties.

It is important to remember that Bute County was formed in the year of 1764 from Granville County. In the 1769 tax lists of Granville County there were no Bobbitt families. They were all living in the area that had been taken to form Bute County. In 1779 Bute County was discontinued and the area divided into Warren and Franklin Counties.