General Notes

Listed in Accomack Co VA Tax Records of 1787 with Polls and 3 slaves.

Robert was about 62 years of age when he died.  His will was probated april 20, 1813 in Accomack Co. VA.  The date is when the inventory and appraisement of the estate was taken.  The sales and audit were settled and approved by the court on May 30, 1816.  The balance due on the estate was $2521.54.

His will was written December 26, 1812 in Drummond, now Accomack, the county seat of Accomack County.  Only the younger group of children starting with John O., were in the will.  He willed the houses, lots and a tanning establishment in the city to9 son Wiley Jones Twiford.  The tannery and everything pertaining to it was willed to Wiley J.  and son-in-law, John A. Bundick, Elizabeth Twiford's husband.

It appears Wiley J. sold the hat making business to his brother-in-law James Eichelberger, before June, 1815. 

The plantation locted in S. George's Parish, Accomack County, purchased of John Young, was eventually to be owned by Wiley J. and his brother-in-law John A. Bundick.  As executors of the estate, they were to pay all debts, pay the dower to comfort Copes West, Robert's 2nd wife, and divide the remainder of the estate as indicated in the will to Henrietta, John O., Elizabeth, Purnell O. and Mary (Polly) Rodgers.