As we lead up to our Centennial stories, we pick up the earlier story of the Brockenbrough-McCall House written by Dianne Saison.
Despite the turmoil, the family remained in residence. In 1767, Katherine died during the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Catherine McCall. With two young children in a country fraught with political upheaval, McCall decided to send his daughters overseas to a school in Scotland. In 1770, a changed man, he added his signature to a non-importation decree.
