The Bobbitt Family In America
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THE BOBBITT EMIGRANT LEGEND This is a list of records arranged in chronological order to show the family in colonial times from 1673 until 1738. March 1, 1719 - Chowan Precinct, North Carolina Sussex County Virginia was formed from Surry County in 1753. Albemarle Parish was partly in Surry County, and partly in Prince The number of records available for any one family name from the colonial days of Virginia are very few. The Bobbitt family has THE BOBBITT FAMILY IN BRISTOL PARISH thence up Stony Creek to the upper road to Nottoway river, thence up between the same and Appomatox river to the extent of the By 1750 the Bobbitt family had three generations living in Virginia and North Carolina. It had been 77 years since the family b Like most parishes in the Virginia Colony, Albemarle was a rural parish. The distances between the glebe and the churches (save William Johnson, David Jones, Richard Jones, William Mangum. Thomas Moore, Henry Moss, William Moss, James Parham, John Sledge, Robert Green qualified himself as one of the executors of the will of John Bobbitt in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina, in Novem -Wynne family connections, we should On December 14, 1791, Thomas Wynne recorded in Deed Book G, page 668, in Sussex County Virginia: THE BOBBITT FAMILY IN VIRGINIA RECORDS Records from 1673 to 1800 Oct. 27, 1673 Land grant to William Bobbitt of 96 acres due him by transportation of two persons into the Virginia colony. Book Oct. 21, 1718 - John Green of Chowan Precinct (North Carolina) to John Bobbitt of the same, planter, on October 21, 1718, for t Mar. 25, 1749 - William Bobbitt from John Earl of Granville, granting 600 acres for three shillings proclamation money. Located 1754 to 1763 - This is the period of the French and Indian wars. In the early part of this period, George Washington, led a com In Virginia, Bobbitt families are living in the counties of Surry, Sussex, Pittsylvania, Bedford, Amherst and perhaps Campbell Jun. 21, 1767 - William Bobbitt was appointed to Procession all. patented land from the mouth of Pigg River to the sides of Sno Aug. 26, 1775 - William Bobbitt of the county of Fincastle to David Ross of Dinwiddie County, for 87 acres on the south side of Mar. 1781 - Ranolph Bobbitt, producing a commission appointing him Ensign in the Militia of this county took the oath prescribe Jan. 22, 1787 William Bobbitt was appointed to view the way for the road. (Bedford County records CO Book 9, pg. 18. This Willi 1790 . Fanny Bobbitt wife of Randolph Bobbitt is mentioned in the will of Richard Waldon as his daughter. Recorded in Pittsy Mar. 3, 1795 - Caleb Bobbitt married Nancy Blair in Grayson County, by Reverend William Porter. Grayson County, marriage record Virginia records were greatly damaged by several court house fires and by the wars of 1812 and the war between the states. The