Child 3: James MacQueen - m. Margaret "Peggy" (Queen)
Notes: Biography: "This immediate branch of the McQUEEN Family was a citizen of Tipperrary Co. of Ir eland, and Charles McQUEEN was a private in the English Army and an honored magistrate of hi s Native Co. but according to the ruling of the
English Parliament, no one of Scotch or Irish name could rank as a Commissioned Officer. So i n order to receive this Commission Charles McQUEEN had to drop the prefix Mc from his origina i name, and became an English Officer under the name of just CHARLES QUEEN. He was said to b e a man of commanding presence and courage and discretion in the execution of his Official Tr ust, and by virtue of his New Official Position, and by an act of the English Parliament, h e was
entitled to enter free of cost, (1400) acres of land in the Virginia Colony of America, whil e a private citizen or soldier of England, could only enter (400) acres. Now this is how, w e as a people got the name of just QUEEN. We find there are quite a number of emigrants comin g to America from Ireland by the name of McQUEEN and McQuinn, and they tell us there are no p eople in Ireland by the name of just QUEEN. Now it was for this purpose of availing himself o f entering the (1400) acres of land in America that caused CHARLES QUEEN and his young wife t o come to America. in or near 1750 and they wended
their way into this section of the Virginia Colony, in Harrison Co. of America, and locate d a homestead on the waters of Gnatty Creek at the mouth of Peeltree, a stream of (4) miles i n length, and selected land, later owned by Old Judge
Edwin S. Dunkin and at present owned by Porter Maxwell, and Ira Post heirs. Whether CHARLES Q UEEN entered the full (1400) acres of land or not, is not known. If he took out a Patent fo r the (1400) acres of land, it should have been recorded in the Clerk's Office (for Patten s in Richmond, Virginia, and this all came about before the Revolutionary War.." From Steph en Post Queen
This area of West Virginia was not settled until the 1770s; there is a Charles Queen in Hamps hire Co. in the 1780s, and they probably first settled there.
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