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In working on my Brannan(Brannon)/Jones lines in Morgan Co., IL and Christian Co.,KY in the last few months, I kept running into the Bobbitt family members as peripheral relations to my direct Jones line...and as a consequence, have read extensive excerpts from "the Bobbitt book" on the web. Just recently, I came into possession of information that proved that my ggggreat-grandfather, Dudley Brannan came from Spartanburg Co., SC. As I read through excerpts from Dudley's father, William Brannon's estate records, and some related deed records, I came across the following two items:
1) 1804- Sptbg.Co. Deed Book K; pp. 225-226 24 Oct; John Bobbett(Christian Co., KY) to Reuben Seay...border Thomas Brannon and Reuben Seay...signed John Bobbett and Esther
2) 1832 - Sptbg. Co. Real Estate Settlement File #17 of William Brannon " To Edmond L. Bishop and wife, Thomas Brannon, Dudley Brannon, John Keenum and wife, John Bobbitt and wife, James Brannon, John Brannon, William Brannon, John ? and wife, Samuel Seay and wife, ? Seay, Dudley Seay, and William Seay heirs of Elizabeth Seay...all heirs and distributees of William Brannon, deceased...real estate of William Brannon., deceased, situated on Lawson fork, bounded by Presley Ballenger, David Golightly and Willamson Seay...
This would seem strong proof that John W Bobbitt, Sr. is married 1st to Esther Brannon (sister of my Dudley) not "Hester Boney" as I have seen mentioned (though obviously there is a similarity in these two names. Does anyone know what the source of the "Hester Boney" name is??
As this information now appears to tie my Brannan line into the Bobbitts, I am curious, and would like to have a list of Esther & John's descendants, etc. I am also more interested in this Bobbitt line, because I hve no proved marriage for my Dudley-I only know(and that is from an account in a county history) that he was married to a Mary(Polly)...I assume he was married in SC, as his daughter Rachel was born there in 1801, according to the 1850 census. Dudley was born 1770-1780...another deed dated 5 Feb 1805 says that he was in Davison(Davidson?) Co., TN. I am in the process of trying to establish a definate date for his arrival in Christian Co., KY, but it is before 1810. As marriage records for SC are virtually non-existant for his time , I feel as though I am searching for a needle in a haystack.Maybe if Dudley's sister married a Bobbitt, so did he...do any of you researchers have a Bobbitt daughter b.1770-1780, perhaps named Mary(Polly), who might have married Dudley Brannan/Brannon in SC @1778-1779?
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