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Notes for JAMES BOBBITT, JR.:
James Bobbitt Jr. was the third son of James and Elizabeth Dalton Bobbitt.
He was not of age when his father wrote his will in 1761. He was born in1748. In 1767 a list of tithables counted James Bobbitt as living with his brother William. According to land deeds of the time, James and William lived on 240 acres of land on the south side of Pegg River in Pittsylvania County, near Frying Pan Creek. In 1768, William Bobbitt, brother of James, married Nancy McKENZIE (often called Ann). In 1775 a deed, recorded in 1778, William and James were living in Montgomery county in that section which is now called Carroll County. In 1782, they were listed on the Montgomery County tax lists. James was still living in the household of his brother in 1782, and probably until 1784. Tradition and circumstances indicate that he married Elizabeth McKenzie, the sister of William's wife, Nancy. James was 36, and his wife 29. The records show that the couple had only one son and three daughters. James Bobbitt Jr served in the Revolutionary war under his brother Captain William Levi Bobbitt. The federal government set aside a large tract of land in Kentucky and Tennessee to be granted to men who served in the War. On October 27, 1798, James Bobbitt received 200 acres of land on Buck Creek in what was then Lincoln County, Kentucky and is today Pulaski County, in south central Kentucky, near the Daniel Boone National Forest(book 6,page 365). this land grant completely changed his life.
The first record of James Bobbitt outside Pittsylvania County was in Montgomery County , Virginia, in present-day Carroll County. "Survey for James Bobbitt, Dec. 7, 1782. 150 acres of land on Big Reed Island Creek, branch of New River." It was on this land that James and Elizabth lived and where all their children were born. The land was located near the family of his brother Capt. William Bobbitt. Shortly after James Bobbitt received the land grant, he and his family moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky, James Levi Bobbitt married Rebecca Day in Grayson County Virginia in 1796, and was living in Pulaski County Ky in 1804.They lived with James and Elizabeth. There is no certain information about the children of James and Elizabeth. There is a possibility that the John Bobbitt who was living in Lincoln County, Kentucky in Crab Orchard may have been their son, but there is no proof.
Prior to 1774 the hole of Kentucky was one of the Counties of Virginia, called Fincastel County. In 1776 Fincastel was divided and the state of Kentucky as we known it today was formed into three counties ,Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. In 1790 there was a further divisions, Pulaski County was formed in 1798 from Green and Lincoln Counties.
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