The list of tithables taken by William Browne on June 10, 1702 in Surry County Virginia, places William Bobbitt Senior as being

The Bobbitt Family In America

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The list of tithables taken by William Browne on June 10, 1702 in Surry County Virginia, places William Bobbitt Senior as being born after 1642 or he would be over 60 years of age, and too old to be tithable. William had to be born before the year of 1653 or he would not have been old enough to have been married and receive the land grant of 1673. We are very much closer to the exact year of birth, when we say William Bobbitt was born in 1649.

We know from the records that William Bobbitt Senior died between June 10, 1702 and May 12, 1703. From the records of the area, it is certain that William Bobbitt died in 1703, and probably a few weeks before his eldest son, William Bobbitt Junior, sold the home place to John Peterson.

James Bobbitt of Hanover County was the youngest son of our William Bobbitt Senior. James was a mature man with land of his own, and a home of his own in 1708. He was a respected member of Saint Paul's Parish to the extent that the men who were appointed by the vestry to take the list of tithables for the parish were to meet at the home of James Bobbitt. James had to be at least twenty years of age in 1708. He would have been born in 1685 or 1686. James was born in 1685, married by 1705, and the father of Randolph Bobbitt, who received a land grant in 1737 in Hanover County.

Historically the path from Petersburg Virginia to North Carolina, went to the city of present day Halifax, North Carolina. It is the logical place to find the Bobbitt name in 1718. John Green is the exact name to find linked with the Bobbitt family of Virginia. The Green family is recorded in the Bristol Parish records. William Bobbitt Junior is said to have married Mary Green. By the date of November 8, 1725, we have recorded that John Bobbitt of the Chowan Precinct in North Carolina was married to Sarah Green. We have calculated the birth of John Bobbitt of Chowan as being born in 1678. John was the second son of William Bobbitt Senior to live to maturity. We know from the will of John Bobbitt that he died in North Carolina in 1736.

The birth of Miles Bobbitt recorded in the Bristol Parish records in 1731, indicates that Lewis Bobbitt, father of Miles, was too young to be a son of William Bobbitt Senior. We can find in the early records only three Bobbitt names who could possibly qualify as sons of William Bobbitt Senior from Wales. The three sons were William Bobbitt Junior, John Bobbitt of Chowan, and James Bobbitt of Hanover. There was undoubtedly a number of daughters who married into other families of the area. It is in the records that many of the Bobbitt males had cousins of other family names, and these would have to be from the married daughters of William Bobbitt Senior.

There is substantial evidence that members of the Bobbitt family fathered more daughters than sons from 1673 until after 1750.