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It cannot be said with authority when the first of Tweedys came to America. Noone can even be certain whether they came directly from the family's ancestral homeland in Scotland or whether they stayed over in Ireland for a generation or two before crossing to the New World. No record of their passage has ever been found.

There is a long-held family tradition that the Tweedys who settled in Virginia were Scotch-Irish, Scots who established themselves in Ulster in the 17th century after the native Irish had been driven out by the armies of James I. This seems likely, based on known immigration patterns.

The earliest known reference to a Tweedy in Virginia is dated 25 October 1695. One Thomas Tweedy is listed among 270 persons granted a patent on 13,500 acres of land in Pamunkey Neck in King and Queen County. The relationship, if any, of this Thomas Tweedy to the Tweedys who came later is unknown.

There were no large colonies of Scots from North Britain in Virginia during the early colonial period, but multitudes of Scottish families emigrated during the 17th and 18th centuries, and their descendants became numerous in almost every one of the tidewater counties. Most of the early comers seem to have settled along the Elizabeth River, in the vicinity of Norfolk, where they were sufficiently numerous to form three or four congregations of the Church of Scotland.

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