Person:William Queen (31)

William QUEEN (Old William)

William Queen Sr. The name was changed from MacQueen to Queen by William Queen. William Queen served in the American Revolution war he was captured by the British twice and escaped from the prison camp in South Carolina he received a pension from the American Government for his services he also received a large tract of land in North Carolina this was a bounty paid by the Government for his services in the war the land grant was for 3000 acres in Rutherford County North Carolina Listed in the North Carolina land grant survey book 1254 page William surveyed land and was the constable for Rutherford County North Carolina he was appointed Judge for Rutherford County North Carolina also served in North Carolina General Assembly Willian also was a farmer

Before 1754 William and his wife Margaret were in Bladen Co., North Carolina (South eastern N.C.). A land servey of that year mentions " the place on Bear creek where William Queen lived." By the fall of 1754 William had already moved west into Anson Co., N.C. The following summer he began to purchase the first of his land tracts on the Little River of the Pee Dee in Anson County.

    William Queen and his family remained in this locale for about twelve years before he began selling off land tracts in preparation for another move west into Wilkes Co., Georgia where he lived during the Revolutionary War.
    The Georgia recourds of the Court of Land Commissioners show "ceded lands" reserved for William Queen, a wife, a son, and two daughters in 1773-1775.  Many years later, his son Samuel states that William enrolled him as a ranger in the Georgia Militia at the commencement of hostilities in that area in 1778.  A Wilkes co., GA Tax digest of 1785 shows 287 1/2 acres for a William Queen, Franklin Co.
    It appears that shortly after the Revolutionary War William Queen moved his family back into North Carolina. For several years afterwards he appears on land records in Randolph and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina.  
     William Queen Died in North Carolina (probably Rutherford Co.) early in 1801. William and Margaret had at least eight children.

Grave Stone Inscription; WILLIAM QUEEN, SR. 1716-1801 PROVERBS 15:3 FOUNDER OF QUEEN FAMILY IN RUTHERFORD CO. N. C.