Indications are that the family worked up the James River from Jamestown.
However, since the Bybee name is recorded Bybe, Bibe, Byby, Biby, Bibby, and Bibbey, the State Historian of the D.A.R. in Virginia is of the opinion that its original form was Barbee. The first Bybee of which I have a record died in 1730. Thomas Bybee lived in St. James Parish, Goochland County. Thomas was a member of the House of Delegates, October, 1778. Bybee answered the call when a mere stripling of seventeen.