Thanks Linda
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Linda Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The wife, daughter, and son should have acquired Virginia citizenship by
> being born here. Unless they specifically renounced their Virginia
> citizenship to become British subjects during or after the Revolutionary
> War, they were still Virginians upon their return. I think citizenship at
> the time was by state, not the United States.
>
> Linda Steele
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Burnett
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 4:39 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Loyalty Oath
>
> Good Evening All
> I have a question wrt passports/immigration. I have a Virginia born
> ancestor who married a British born Doctor in Va prior to 1775. When the
> Revolution began the Dr was a Loyalist and he, his wife, son, and daughter
> returned to England. The Dr then returned to New York in a British uniform
> and died there. Subsequent to the war his wife, daughter and son, after he
> graduated from Edinburgh Medical School returned to Va in 1792. On their
> return would they have been treated as immigrants even though all were born
> in Va? Would they have had to take an oath of loyalty?
> Just to put a name on this law they were the McCaws and there were 5
> generations of physicians in the Richmond Va area from this line.
> Thanks in advance
> Douglas Burnett
> Satellite Beach
> FL
>
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