Luther Babbitt was from the Massachusetts Babbitt family. He was the first member of the northern Bobbitt-Babbitt family to live in North Carolina. He arrived in North Carolina in 1846. See records of another northern family in Wake County 1850.
Family # 949, counted September 21, 1850.
Willie Bobbitt and Drady Parker were married on November 17, 1849 in Orange County. We think that Willie was a son of Arthur and Moriah Bobbitt of Orange County.
Many of the Orange County records are missing. We know that there were numerous Bobbitt families living in Orange County who have not been counted in any of the census records.
Family # 394, counted September 4, 1850
John B. Bobbitt was a son of Turner and Elizabeth Bobbitt. He married Harriet Balridge on June 10, 1816 in Franklin County. John and his wife were among the first educators in North Carolina. They ran an Academy in Franklin and Wake Counties. Both John and his wife died and were buried in Wake County, near Raleigh.
