Person:John MacQueen (1)

(based upon age and location)

1768 - a John Queen is listed in Rowan Co., NC.[305] Rowan Co. at this time included MANY other present-day counties, and had no western border.

1771 - 25 Jan, Rowan Co., NC Bill of Sale from John Queen to Jacob Browne for sundry things is ordered recorded in the P&QS Minutes.

        - a John Queen is mentioned in the Rowan Co., NC P&QS Minutes (1763-1774) on 15 Feb. 1771: King vs. John Queen.

1779 - a Jonathan Queen is on the Montgomery Co., NC Voter List.[306]

1779 - 20 April, John Queen of Mecklenburg Co. was one of the witnesses of a deed of sale of 200 acres on Sugar Creek at auction by the High Sheriff, in recovery against the administrators of William Walker, dec’d, for debt of L105 and Court Costs.[307] This land is probably within or south of present-day Charlotte, NC Sugar Creek runs S. from the western side of Charlotte into SC and the Catawba River, forming the boundary between York and Lancaster Counties there.

1779 - Sept. 27, John Queen is granted 100 acres on south side of Catawba River on Tindles (Tindalls) Creek, up creek for complement including Williams’s Cabin.[308] Oct. 8, John Quene (sic) granted 100 acres beginning John Mattox’s lower line on N. side of Catawba River, down for complement.[309] He may have left, sold or forfeited this land: April 24, 1780, “William Murray reenters the Entry of Land formerly entered by John Queen, joining John Mattox’s entry on the lower end and William James’s on the upper end, lying on the North side of the Catawba River in Burke Co., containing a hundred acres.”[310]

1780 - listed on a Montgomery Co., NC map (circa 1800) as having been granted a tract of land in 1780. The only other Queen on this map is “Henson Queen, 1793”, on an adjacent tract. Nearby is Elias Butler.[311]

1782 - Montgomery Co. Land Grant Survey, 10 August 1782, survey for John Queen, 50 acres on Big Rocky Creek, including the mouth of Little Rocky Creek. Chainbearers: Timothy Queen, Lewis Hunt.[312] This land is in present-day Montgomery Co., about ten miles S. of Troy, NC.

1783 - a Jno. Queen was granted 50 acres in Montgomery Co., NC Oct. 1783.[313] Oct. 12 1783, John Queen enters 60 acres in Montgomery Co., border above the mouth of Rish Branch on E. side of Little River.[314]

1791 - Montgomery Co., NC Land Entry, 21 May 1791 - Samuel Poor enters 100 acres on Rocky Creek, “joining John Queen’s old survey.”[315] Montgomery Co. NC Land Grant Survey 31 August 1791 - Elias Butler, 25 acres on Rocky Creek, the NE side of PeeDee River joining John Queen’s 50 acre survey.[316]

1808 - 6 July 1808, James Vinzant of NC to John Queen of the same county and state, 10 dollars, 2 acres on the south side of Little Broad River, part of a grant to Ben Shaw and conveyed from Robert Smith to James Vinzant by deed. Wit. Robt. H. Taylor, Benjamin Earwood. #11, 25 February 1811.[317]

1811 - John Queen to Henson Queen, 100 acres on First Broad River.[318] Maisie Queen Young believes that this John is son of patriarch William Queen, and brother of Henson, and that this transfer was part of the estate settlement from their father.[319]