Washington Co., Virginia Will Book 10:254-257:
Martha [ORR] McCALL’s Administrator’s Account Settlement (partial list):
Abstracted by Bob and Donna Ford with their annotations added in brackets [ ]
For cash received of the following persons for purchase of slaves sold [21 Jun 1845] under decree of Court and due this day the administrator being the commissioner appointed to make the sale to wit,
Mary McCALL $956, Joseph SCOTT $530, Berry ST. JOHN $500,
Samuel ROSEBROUGH & Henry B. EDMONDSON $857, and
Wm. McCALL $1,047.
Total: $3,890.
The following amounts were paid to the Distributees of the estate:
- Nancy WHITEHOUSE, $582.
- Mary McCALL, $582.
- Arthur McCALL, $582.
- James ALLEN, $582.
- Robert SCOTT, $145.50.
- Arthur O. CRAWFORD, $145.50.
- Joseph SCOTT, $145.50.
- James S. WITTEN, Jr., $194.
- John ROBERTS, guardian of John & Jesse McCALL, $388.
- John M. SCOTT, $218.25.
- John McCALL, $72.75.
- John McCALL, guardian of Isabella, James, Sarah Elizabeth, Wm., Almira Jane and Mary Catharine McCALL, $436.50.
- Administrator’s [Wm. McCALL] distributive share of estate, $582.
Administrator allowed $154.44 as compensation for his personal trouble as Administrator and also to pay the additional expenses in the suits in Chancery.
The Settlement of the estate of Martha McCALL was ordered to be recorded: 28 Dec 1846.
[John McCALL’s wards were the children of Thomas McCALL, deceased, son of John & Martha McCALL. John ROBERT’s wards were the children of John McCALL, deceased, son of John & Martha (ORR) McCALL. John & Martha (ORR) McCALL’s son John also had a daughter Frances Jane who married James S. WITTEN Jr. above. Robert SCOTT was the husband of Martha SCOTT (Martha and her brother Joseph and her sister Mary Jane (wife of Arthur Orr CRAWFORD), were children of Obediah and Jane (McCALL) SCOTT). Jane was the dau. of John & Martha McCALL. Arthur Orr CRAWFORD was the son of Beniah and Mary (ORR) CRAWFORD. Beniah’s wife, Mary, was the dau. of Arthur ORR, Sr.].