Does anyone have any comments concerning this information I found on the internet? According to "A McQueen Family Historical Tour" by Sheila McQueen Ellison (Gardendale, Alabama: The Promise Publishing House) Research done by Jack McQueen of Elizabethton, Tennessee, states "John, Alexander, and David McQueen, brothers and Jacobite soldiers, were born in Scotland in the late 1600's. They were captured after the siege of Preston, Lancashire, and transported from Liverpool to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1716, on the "Wakefield", Master Thomas Beck. Alexander and David left the ship at Charleston, South Carolina: John left the ship at Baltimore, Maryland. He was bonded to an individual there, probably to pay for his passage. John McQueen settled near what is now Hershey, Pennsylvania, not far from Conawago Creek. He and his sons were on the tax roll there in the 1750's. Since John Sr. had arrived in the country in 1716, his sons, John, James and Joseph probably had children and maybe even grandchildren. I found no records of Samuel McQueen or any of John, Jr., James or Joseph McQueen's children in Pennsylvania. About 1760, John Sr., John, James, James (sic) and Joseph migrated to the area near what is now Statesville, North Carolina. In the library at Dandridge, Tennessee, is a report of the Hall family saying that James Hall and his wife, Prudence Roddy Hall, had a certificate stating that they were in good standing with the Conawago, Pennsylvania church. One of the signers of the certificate by the Sessions of Conawago was John McQueen. The Halls also stated that John Sr., John, James and Joseph McQueen settled in the Statesville, North Carolina area. Then, it seems, John Sr., John, James and Joseph McQueen disappear. About this time, the names of John Sr., John, James and Joseph McGoun or sometimes McCoun turned up on deeds, tax rolls, and other records. It is possible that because the Scottish people were out of favor with the King of England, the Scottish name was changed to sound more Irish. The King of England had appointed a Scot as governer of North Carolina, thinking he was Irish. The governor persuaded the King to let the persecuted people of Scotland migrate to North Carolina. They poured into North Carolina by the tens of thousands from Scotland and Pennsylvania. This John McGoun died in the Statesville area in the 1760's. His son, John McGoun, moved to Dandridge, Tennessee, where he died in 1793. One of his three sons he had named as beneficiary in his will was named Samuel. In a deed I came across made to Samuel McQueen, the name appeared as "Samuel McQueen (McGown)". If Samuel McQueen's father is John McQueen Jr. (McGown), then he is the Samuel McQueen that I follow down through Virginia to Radford, Virginia, before turning south into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee. The records at Fincastle, Virginia, show he owned land in the Radford area in 1770. In 1792 Samuel McQueen bought 270 acres on Roan Creek in the Mountain City area from Richard White who had lived near Samuel McQueen in the Radford area. One could almost throw a rock into New River, Watauga River, and the Yadkin River where they head near Blowing Rock, North Carolina. If this is our Samuel McQueen and if John McQueen Jr. is the father of Samuel McQueen, Samuel probably traveled back and forth to Cool Springs, where John McQueen Jr., his father John Sr. and John Jr.'s two brothers, James and Joseph, settled. He probably traveled by land, the nearest way, and not by New River and Yadkin River. Cool Springs is located about 10 miles from both Statesville, North Carolina and Mocksville, North Carolina, where Daniel Boone's father settled. The records back to Samuel McQueen are clear. The records from Samuel McQueen back to Scotland are slightly cloudy. This information may help someone to trace our ancestors back to Scotland or it could be just another dead end.