Elizabeth Flood, mother-in-law of Archibald McCall, and George McCall, his agent, petition the court to stop legal proceedings to confiscate Archibald McCall's estate. They state that Archibald McCall sent his two daughters to school in England in 1775, and shortly thereafter traveled abroad himself. When the American Revolution began, McCall found it difficult to return to America owing to English legal prohibitions and his fear of taking his daughters on a sea voyage during wartime; in his letters, however, he insisted to his relatives that he considered himself an American and hoped to return as soon as possible. In the meantime, however, his estate, plus land and slaves lent him by his father-in-law, was seized by the Virginia assembly; the petitioners charge said seizure is illegal. Noting that one of his daughters died in England, Flood and McCall ask that the escheat proceedings against Archibald's estate cease until the surviving daughter, Catherine, return to defend her claim to the estate, including the land and slaves lent to Archibald by his father-in-law. They also ask that Archibald McCall be allowed to return to America.
Result: First part rejected; second part, reasonable.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
