There is no evidence that John Richard Bobbitt had any brothers other than William Bobbitt Junior. William was mentioned in the

The Bobbitt Family In America

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There is no evidence that John Richard Bobbitt had any brothers other than William Bobbitt Junior. William was mentioned in the Edgecombe County records of 1744. There is evidence that John and William Junior had several sister's, but they are difficult to identify positively.

Between 1736 and 1749 the records of North Carolina mention only the members of the family of John Bobbitt of Chowan. The family of Lewis Bobbitt from Virginia joined the family of John of Chowan, and by 1750 the number of Bobbitt names in the records increased substantially. By the time of the 1790 census, there were 19 Bobbitt males who were listed as head of their own households. By 1800 the number listed in the census records was 21 members of the family as head of household.

There was only three sons and an unknown number of daughters in the family of William Bobbitt from Wales. John Bobbitt of Chowan had two sons, and three daughters who lived to maturity. The family of William Bobbitt, son of John of Chowan, had only two sons and an unknown number of daughters. The family of Lewis Bobbitt had only three sons and an unknown number of daughters.

For many years we thought that John Richard Bobbitt married Amy Shearin of Bertie County She was supposed to have been the daughter of Joseph Shearin. This information was based on the belief of direct descendants. The Bobbitt families and the Shearin families were related by several different marriages over a period of years. There is no proof or evidence that Amy Bobbitt was a Shearin before her marriage to John Richard Bobbitt.

Mrs. Ola Burrows Kearney, a resident of North Carolina for more than eighty years, wrote me in 1975 that the information concerning the marriage of John and Amy Shearin was an error. Mrs. Kearney is a descendant of the Bobbitt family through Holly Bobbitt, a great granddaughter of John Richard Bobbitt. She is also a descendant of the Shearin family. She states that Amy Bobbitt a sister of John Richard Bobbitt married Joseph Shearin in the early 1700's. She has the unrecorded will of Joseph Shearin and there is no mention of the Bobbitt family among any of his daughters husbands.

In 1804 Mary Bobbitt married Zaccharia Shearin in Warren County and Joseph Shearin was a witness. In 1828 Elizabeth Bobbitt was married to Nathaniel Shearin and Kitchen Bobbitt was the bondsman. Abner Shearin was at the sale of the estate of Amy Bobbitt, widow of John Richard Bobbitt.

There is no evidence or a marriage record for John Richard and Amy Shearin Bobbitt. There is evidence that Amy Bobbitt was an Alston before her marriage to John Richard Bobbitt. Unfortunately very few of these early marriages can be genealogically proven.

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