“The plaintiffs, about eighty or one hundred in number, assert themselves to be the next of kin, on the paternal side, to Charles White, who died intestate in the city of Philadelphia some time in the month of January in the year 1816. The intestate was one of the numerous French neutrals, as they were called, who were deported from Nova Scotia in the year 1756 by order of the British government. The bill alleges that he was the son of Charles White, who died, leaving two sons, Francis and the intestate, and four brothers and two sisters, the ancestors of the plaintiffs. That the two sons, died intestate and without issue, and that the female defendant is the only child of Mrs Blanchard, the sister of the intestate’s mother. The defendants, Mr Montgomery and Mr Cross, are the administrators of Charles White, the intestate. The bill claims six-sevenths of the real and personal estate of the intestate. The answer denies that Charles White, the father, had either brothers or sisters, or left any other relations than his two sons aforesaid, and denies that the plaintiffs are in any manner related to the family of the intestate.”