TWYMAN.
George and William Twyman, in all likelihood brothers,
were citizens of Culpeper. George began to purchase land
in Albemarle on the Buck Mountain Road near Earlysville
in 1765. In 1791 and 1804 he divided nearly six hundred
acres between his sons, George and Joseph. He died in
1822, at the age of eighty-nine. His wife's name was Mary,
and his children were George, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, the
wife of a Sanford, William, Abraham, Elizabeth, the wife of
William J. Wood, Agatha, the wife of Robert Dearing, Ruth,
the wife of David Watts, and James. A number of this family
removed to Kentucky, and as none of them bearing the name
now reside in the county, it is probable they all emigrated to
the West.
William in 1770 bought more than five hundred acres on
the head waters of Mechum's, which he sold in 1778 to William
Wood and Francis Weathered. In 1771 he purchased
from Jacob Snead three hundred acres on Ivy Creek, at the
crossing of the Whitehall Road. This place he sold two
years after to George Wayt. From the fact that the eldest
son of Wayt was named Twyman, his wife was no doubt a
daughter of William. William Twyman, whose wife's name
was Winifred, appears never to have lived in Albemarle.
