Lucy Leftwich Bobbitt died between July 19, 1788 and October 27, 1788. Her ' will was probated and William Bobbitt her son put

The Bobbitt Family In America

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Lucy Leftwich Bobbitt died between July 19, 1788 and October 27, 1788. Her will was probated and William Bobbitt her son put up the necessary security bond to see that Randolph Bobbitt received his inheritance.

There will always be a question as to why Lucy did not mention her other children in her will and why she did not give them a portion of her estate. We know that William Bobbitt was well taken care of by his grandfather and he apparently had no complaints to the will of his mother. We are also mystified as to how there can be a Leftwich Bobbitt living later on in Bedford County when there were apparently only two sons, William and Randolph. William had only daughters, and Randolph moved to Campbell County, Kentucky before any of his children were born.

Randolph Bobbitt was only 18 or 19 when his mother died. He lived on the hundred acre farm adjoining his brother for the next four years, the farm left to him by his mother and presumably the place where his mother had lived. In those days the eldest son inherited everything when his father died and we believe that is what happened here in the case of William Bobbitt.

On December 24, 1792 when Randolph Bobbitt was 23 years of age, he had women problems. He was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock with Keziah Dickerson and agreed in court to pay for the keep of the child for the next eight years. On the very same day he applied for a marriage license to marry Nancy Mays, daughter of John Mays. The marriage was recorded.

Dec. 24, 1792, Randolph Bobbett applied for marriage bond. to marry Nancy Mays. Witnesses: Elijah Mays, William Bobbett Bedford County Marriage Records.

We think that shortly after this marriage, Randolph Bobbitt and his wife left Virginia and moved to Campbell County, Kentucky. We think the child of Keziah Dickerson was a son, and named Leftwich Bobbitt and that William Bobbitt reared the son along with his family, in Bedford County, Virginia. William Bobbitt had several daughters who were reared as Quakers and later migrated to Indiana. William married Elizabeth Barber. William died in 1818.

At the time that Randolph Bobbitt left Virginia there were numerous families who had heard of the opportunities in Ohio and Kentucky. They formed caravans and moved by horse and wagons. Several of Randolph's first cousins from Pittsylvania County joined in the move and settled in Ohio, Randolph went on to what is today Campbell County, Kentucky.

There is no record of Randolph until the census of 1810 taken in Campbell County Kentucky.

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