Today I was hunting and pecking, just check to see if I could find any further information about Peter McQueen or his sister Ann…and I did! I found a birth location for Ann, which is a possible birth location for Peter!
Titled Department of Archives and History, Georgia’s Official Register, 1929, Compiled by Ruth Blair (State Historian and Director), page 109:
JOHN McQUEEN MULLINS, Durand. Farmer. Born June 25, 1870 in O’Neal’s Mill, Troup Co., Ga. Son of David Hill Mullins (born Aug. 1, 1820 in Martinsville, Henry Co., Va.; resident of O’Neal’s Mill, Troup Co., Ga.; farmer and tobacco manufacturer; died Feb. 4, 1880) and Virginia (Wood) Mullins (born July 31, 1833 in Meriwether Co., Ga.; died Jan. 27, 1919). Grandson of Henry Mullins (born in Henry Co., Ca.) and Matilda (Hill) Mullins (born in Henry Co., Va.), and of Stephen Wood (born in Lunenburg Co., Va.) and Anne (McQueen) Wood (born in Edgefield Dist., S.C.). Educated in local school. Married Jan. 31, 1911 Mary Griffin, daughter of Reuben Leitner Griffin (Mch. 4, 1847-Apr. 12, 1920) and Georgia Holmes Griffin (Mch 1, 1850 June 13, 1924). Children: Virginia Wood (born Nov. 12, 1913), Jack McQueen (born Sep. 5, 1917), Mary Ellen (born Aug. 4, 1922). Methodist. Democrat. Delegate, State Democratic Conventions, 1906, 1920; member, House of Rep., Meriwether Co., 1898-99, 1927.
Edgefield District, South Carolina! Now, I don’t know Peter’s exact birth date, but I do know he was born approximately 1795. And since he, too, said he was born in South Carolina my guess is that he also was born in Edgefield District. So, I went and looked up the 1790 census for Edgefield. It’s a name transcribed as “Jams McQueen” (James, I assume) on both Ancestry and Family Search. However, someone submitted different information on the Ancestry transcription claiming it to say “Saml”. You decide:
Anyway, I will now need to find all probate records in the surrounding counties to see if I can find any further information. Since those counties were formed from Edgefield later on in the 19th century, I may be able to find records in those counties if the particular areas transferred.
The only other new information I have found on Peter was a postal advertisement in the Louisiana Herald (Alexandria, Louisiana) on January 21, 1820 notifying people that their mail would continued to be held at the post office for at least three months. So, this puts Peter:
April 30, 1818 - in New Orleans, Louisiana purchasing a slave named Daniel
January 1820 – apparently living in or around Alexandria, Louisiana
November 27, 1820 – in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana for his marriage to Elizabeth Freeland
However, he still doesn’t appear on any census record whatsoever until 1840 in Marshall County, Mississippi. Odd.
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