Robert Rountree was a resident of Nansemond County, Virginia in 1685 and moved to North Carolina by 1700. There, he purchased land from Nicholas Stallings on Bennett's Creek. In 1702 he and several other residents of Chowan Precinct submitted a petition to the North Carolina Council regarding a land boundary dispute between the colonists and the Chowanoke Nation. Land records indicate that Rountree died by 1716.