Your first sentence catches my attention. Did you mean to say ALL Queens? I descend from the WV Charles Queen Sr and I would be very interested if he could be tied in to any line. ----------------- [email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YBBAEB/519.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 > >Message Board Post: > > >The Queen family tree in the USA can be traced by record and deed to William Queen b. abt 1720 in Maryland. > >Noted researcher/genealogist Myles Philbeck published a lengthy paper in The Bulletin of The Genealogical Society of Old Tyron County Volume XXV, August 1997, Number 3, pages 133-142 in which he expounded and explained his logical theory that William Queen was actually born William MacQueen. > >William MacQueen b. 8/18/1716 was the son of Timothy and Jane MacQueen and the brother of John MacQueen b. 10/9/1719, This is established in the Baptismal records of King Georges Parish, Prince Georges County, Maryland. > >There is absolutely no hard evidence as to the parentage of Timothy MacQueen. However, looking at his age and the listings of immigrants during that time period. The best and perhaps only possibility is John McQueen who was one of the "Covenanters" who sailed from Edinburgh and arrived in New Jersey in 1685. This is detailed in length in " The Covenanters and the Work of Rev. John Cuthbertson" and "The Early History of Perth Amboy" by William Whitehead published in 1856. > >The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol XX, No 4, December 1932, pp 16-18 discusses this voyage and subsequent trial in length. > >Prior to the voyage, The Covenanters were held at Dunnottar Castle near Aberdeen and then in the Tolbooth at Leith. They protested their banishment and cruel treatment. It's quite a long and interesting tale. > >John McQueen, who must have been at least 20 years of age, based upon his arrest and subsequent actions, would have been born about 1660-65. If he had a son after his arrival, that son would have been born about 1670. That son would have had children about 1690-95, the probable date of Timothy MacQueens birth. Timothy named his second son John, hopefully after his grandfather. > >Remember that many Scots, after a few years, turned around and headed home. Maybe Timothy's father (William?) abandon the brood and sailed home or simply died. In either event we have no record. > >So, we are faced with several leaps of faith, although the passage of John MacQueen to the Colonies is well established. > > >==== QUEEN Mailing List ==== >Visit my homepage to view old Queen documents: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ >QUEEN YDNA PROJECT >http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=X96855&special=True >http://www.ysearch.org/ > >============================== >Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > -- Skip Queen Viruses? Spyware? Not me! I use Linux!! Linspire - The world's easiest desktop Linux!