The Bobbitt Family In America

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To all Christian People.. I Thomas Wynne of Sussex County, Virginia, for and in consideration of the natural love and affection I bear to John Bobbitt of the same county and state, grant unto him for a maintenance during my natural life, the following Negroes, Sarah, David, Man, and George, they and their increase, also one bed and furniture, one wagon, and three horses, a few hundred weight of pork, all my household and kitchen furniture .....

Witnesses: John Parham, D. Lawrence, and Wm. Burge.

Thomas Wynne was undoubtedly reared in the same household with John Bobbitt and were probably step-brothers. If they had been cousins the legal form at that time would have mentioned their relationship.

John and his brother William Bobbitt were both reared by Robert and Lucy Wynne. John would have been only 16 and William 14 when their mother married Robert Wynne.

We know very little about William Bobbitt, the brother of John. What we do know comes from an application he made for a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War. William applied on September, 1826 when he was living in Monroe County Georgia.

Personally appeared in open court, William Bobbitt, who saith under oath, that he was a soldier of the revolutionary war, that he belonged to the sixth regiment of Virginia line, commanded by Colonel Gray Jenkins, and was attached to this company commanded by Captain Nathan Mason, that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Trenton, besides various skirmishes; that he served three years and six weeks in the regular army. He was discharged near Burlington in the fall of 1779 or 1780... that his written discharge was given to his brother (John Bobbitt) in Virginia about forty years ago. He is seventy two years of age on the 29th day of next month (October 1826) and that he is old and infirm. His family consists of his wife, who is about fifty years of age, and of one daughter twenty three years of age."

William was not in the 1820 census records of Georgia and I have not been able to find him in any other records of the period. He was born in 1754 and apparently did not marry until late. His daughter was born in 1803 and his wife was 16 years younger than he was. I can find no records of any sons who would logically belong to this William Bobbitt. He may have lived in North or South Carolina before moving to Georgia.