The Bobbitt Family In America

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"John Alston of Halifax county, to Drury Bobbitt, of Bute County, in consideration of two pound specie, land in the Parish of St. John, on the north side of Ben's Creek, it being in an area granted by the order of the court, for the use of and profit of a mill, with all woods, water courses, timbers, trees, and low lands .......

                                                                               Richard John Alston

This deed was a legal gift from John Alston to his grandson, Drury Bobbitt. Drury Bobbitt's taxable land increased in 1773 from 479 acres of land to 590 acres of land. The amount paid for the 110 acres in the above deed, can only have been a token payment to make the deeded gift legal.

Drury and Elizabeth Bobbitt were listed in the 1771 Bute County tax lists. They had no sons over 16 years of age (no sons born before 1755). Drury was listed as head of his own household.

In 1786 the North Carolina State census of Warren County, listed Drury Bobbitt and his family as:

Drury Bobbitt was born in 1744, married in 1761, and by 1786 had been head of his household for 24 years. His son Sheerwood Bobbitt had served in the Revolution Army and was head of his own household in Halifax County. From this record we know that Drury Bobbitt had 4 sons and 6 daughters by 1786.

In 1790 the federal census listed the family of Drury Bobbitt.

Three of the sons and three of the daughters were married and away from home by 1790. The son at home had to be born after 1774 to be under 16. This son was Thomas Bobbitt, born in 1776.

John and Drury Junior were listed in Sampson County North Carolina in the 1790 census. Sheerwood was listed in Halifax County. All were sons of Drury and Elizabeth Bobbitt.

The 1800 census lists the families of the sons of Drury as well as his own family. The record is in the Warren County census and is not as precise as we would like it to be.