Robert Green qualified himself as one of the executors of the will of John Bobbitt in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina, in Novem

The Bobbitt Family In America

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Robert Green qualified himself as one of the executors of the will of John Bobbitt in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina, in November 1736. This will is the first mention of the name "Thomas Bobbitt" in all the records. On the 19th day of September 1750, Robert Green recorded his own will in Surry county Virginia and left to his cousin Thomas Bobbitt, his plantation, land, and one Negro. In 1753 this land was in the newly formed county of Sussex. Thomas according to the Parish Register was living in Virginia in 1749 and apparently he returned to Virginia not long after the death of his father, along with his sisters, Mary Bobbitt and Amy Bobbitt.

It is not easy to reconstruct the life of Thomas Bobbitt. Much of what his descendants have said about the family has proven to be correct according to the records we have. It is for this reason that I am reasonably sure that Thomas Bobbitt was married two times. The first marriage to Mary Hill and the second marriage to Lucy Jones. There may have been daughters born to the first marriage but there are no records of any sons being born to that marriage. The second marriage to Lucy Jones must have been in 1751 and their first son was named John Bobbitt after the father of Thomas Bobbitt. Their second son was named William Bobbitt and according to his pension application he was born in 1754. Both John and William were very young when their father died in 1759 in Sussex county. Thomas did not leave a will but his estate was appraised and sold for the heirs. His estate was appraised at 242 pounds Sterling which for this period was quite large. The estate listed:

9 head of cattle, 27 hogs, 6 sheep, one stallion, 1 horse.

6 slaves, four female and two male

1 pair of money scales

1 gun

1 pair of spoon molds

18 brass buckels

1 spinning wheel

2 beds and their furniture, 3 chests, 6 chairs.

1 wigg.

The estate was appraised by Sloman Wynne, Mathew Parham, and Stith Parham, on the 19th day of January 1759.

Lucy Jones Bobbitt the wife of Thomas Bobbitt must have been much younger than Thomas as she married Robert Wynne on March 25, 1767. Robert Wynne was supposed to be a first cousin of Thomas Bobbitt and was a widower himself at the time he married Lucy (Jones) Bobbitt. I strongly suspect that Robert Wynne lived near Thomas Bobbitt and helped to look after Lucy and her two young sons until his own wife died. Much of this thought comes from a very curious deed recorded in Sussex county deed book G, page 668. from Thomas Wynne, on the l4th day of December 1791.

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