The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair was written to celebrate North Carolina’s tercentenary in 1963. While exploring the history of colonial North Carolina, Floyd was intrigued to learn of Scottish settlers in the eastern part of the state who clung steadfastly to the social structure and customs of their native country, while also vehemently protesting colonial taxation. These polarities became the basis of the comedy-drama, which pits Dougald MacDougald, a vainglorious old Scottish laird who fiercely maintains the ways of the old world, against Mollie Sinclair, a middle-aged Scottish woman consumed by the fever of revolution an protest, who eagerly embraces the new.

Floyd writes: “The collision of these two characters, I felt, would provide the necessary conflict out of which could come both comedy and drama, and each had his or her own adherents: the old laird’s dutiful and blindly loyal clansman on the one hand, and on the other, Mollie Sinclair’s rag-tag brigade of scruffy young men who, with her as their commander, were marching on Wilmington.”