John McQueen

• Name	John McQueen
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1683	Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Residence	1683	Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Genocher
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Imprisonment	Bef May 1685	Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Taken at Crawford Muir and taken to Edinburgh
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture
  Religion	24 Aug 1685	Scotland   [3]
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter. Gave a personal testimony while awaiting transportation
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [4]
  Title Suffix	in Genocher
  Name	John McEwan
  Name	John McEwen
  Name	John McEwin
  Name	John Mckqueen  [5]
  Origin	Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [6]
  Person ID	I44663	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1683 - Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland Residence - Genocher - 1683 - Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Taken at Crawford Muir and taken to Edinburgh - Bef May 1685 - Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Imprisonment - One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter. Gave a personal testimony while awaiting transportation - 24 Aug 1685 - Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Crawford, Lanarkshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, p290. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p9. [S3602] Wodrow Quarto Manuscripts, Wod.Qu.XXXVI (lxii). [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp289-294.