Catharine Flood McCall
She inherited Cedar Grove and Clydeside plantations following the death of her maternal grandfather, Nicholas Flood in 1776.
Parliament passed a law that prevented people from traveling to the Thirteen British Colonies during the war.
She was among the owners of the most slaves in Essex County, Virginia, and received an inheritance from her maternal grandfather of the Cedar Grove and Clydeside plantations.
After the penitentiary had understood McCall's nailery, she sold the business in 1815 to William Stewart, Jr. who died with outstanding debts.
Catharine (Kate, Kattey, Kitty)[1][2] Flood McCall was born on December 25, 1766, in Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia.
[3] Her mother, Katharine Flood McCall, died on January 5, 1767, due to complications of childbirth.
[7] The American Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775, and McCall sailed to Great Britain that September.
[7][a] Parliament enacted a law that prevented people from freely traveling from Britain to the American colonies during the war.
In the winter of 1785–1786, a relative, Robert Hunter, and his friend Joseph Hadwell stayed with the McCalls.
[3] Her competitors were Thomas Jefferson and an enterprise that relied on prisoners at the Virginia State Penitentiary, which was less than a mile from McCall's Alexandria factory.
His health declined due to emotional depression and illness and he died in February 1819,[3] with outstanding debts.
[1] The Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for Alexandria County heard a chancery suit entitled Administrator of William Stewart, Jr. v. Catherine Flood McCall and others.
The purpose of the suit was to prove that McCall's father was involved in business financial decisions.
[3] After her death, Judge Walter Jones, a cousin from Washington, D.C., inherited her Clydeside estate.
[9] She is one of a few of American women—like Martha Washington and Annie Henry Christian—who oversaw significant business operations that relied on slave labor in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
