William Bobbitt III, was first mentioned by implication in the records of the vestry of Bristol Parish. The vestry decided on N

The Bobbitt Family In America

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William Bobbitt III, was first mentioned by implication in the records of the vestry of Bristol Parish. The vestry decided on November 15, 1736 to pay to William Bobbitt Senior, 100 shillings for the burying of John Dulaney. Or the son of William Bobbitt Junior could have lived in the area and been old enough to cause the vestry to refer to William as "Senior". We also know from this record that William Bobbitt Junior, referred to as Senior, was still living in 1736.

William Bobbitt III was undoubtedly the eldest son of William Bobbitt Junior. He inherited the property purchased on Rocky Run. We do not know what happened to this property as the records for the period were destroyed in the War between the States. Before 1728, Lewis Bobbitt had purchased land for himself, which indicated that Lewis knew that he would not inherit the land of his father. James the youngest son of William Bobbitt Junior, purchased land in 1752 and had been a land owner prior to that date.

We know very little about William Bobbitt III. His name seems to have been confused with the name of BOBLITT. Several persons with the name of Boblitt appear in the records in the time and location of William Bobbitt III. Descendants appear in the county of Bedford, parts of Kentucky, and Ohio. In some instances the name is Boblitt and in some instances the same families are listed as Bobbitt. It is a common mistake in the spelling of the name, and in its pronunciation at the present time.

William Bobbitt III would have been born between 1695 and 1700. He could not have been the husband of Lucy Bobbitt who left a will in Bedford County in 1788 in which she left property to her son, Randle, not yet of lawful age". William Bobbitt III is said to have married Mary Hill but I can find no evidence or record to support this information. It is likely that the William Bobbitt who moved to and lived in Baltimore County, Maryland was a son of William Bobbitt III. There are no other Bobbitt families or names that can be positively identified as sons of William III, nor are there any ancestors left free without a connection to one of the early established families. There is nothing in the records to indicate that William Bobbitt III went to North Carolina.

Lewis Bobbitt, the second son of William Bobbitt Junior, is a part of our family studies in North Carolina. Lewis was born in 1704. The first mention of Lewis Bobbitt was in the land patent of Richard Jones, in which it is stated that one of the boundaries of the property of Richard Jones was a corner of Lewis Bobbitt's land, in the county of Prince George. We know that Lewis Bobbitt owned this land prior to September 28, 1728, the date of the Richard Jones patent.

Lewis Bobbitt is next recorded in the Bristol Parish records. The birth of his son, Miles Bobbitt, on January 22, 1731 is entered, with the notation that he was the son of Lewis and Elizabeth Bobbitt.

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