Editing Flora MacDonald (section)

==Return to Skye==
[[File:Flora Macdonald&#039;s Grave and Monument - geograph.org.uk - 636148.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.0|Flora's grave in [[Kilmuir, Skye|Kilmuir]] Cemetery, Skye]] 

After a harsh winter in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], in September 1779 MacDonald took passage for London in the ''Dunmore,'' a British [[privateer]]; during the voyage, she broke her arm and ill-health delayed her return to Scotland until spring 1780.{{sfn|Quynn|1941|pp=251–252}} She spent the next few years living with various family members, including [[Dunvegan]] home of her son-in-law Major General Alexander MacLeod, the largest landowner in Skye after the MacDonalds.{{sfn|MacGregor|2009|p=134}} 

The compensation received for the loss of their property in North Carolina was insufficient to allow them to resettle in Nova Scotia and Allan returned to Scotland in 1784. Kingsburgh was now occupied by Flora's half-sister and her husband, and Allan instead took up [[tenant farming]] in nearby Penduin.{{sfn|Quynn|1941|pp=252–253}} She died in 1790 at the age of 68 and was buried in [[Kilmuir, Skye|Kilmuir]] Cemetery, followed by her husband in September 1792.{{sfn|Douglas|2004}}