Re: Minor McQueen, Ohio, Virginia

John, have copied to this message my research notes re: Minor McQueen. The format has been changed somewhat due to space limitations. Hope the information is readable, new,and relevant to McQueen reseachers.


Miner/Minor or McQueen/McQuin
In
Muskingum County, Ohio for period 1813 – 1830


SALT CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP 1811-1825
By Kathryn McCutcheon

Muskingum Co., Salt Creek Township, Ohio, 7 miles from Zanesville on County Road 5 (Clay Pike}

The 1813 membership listing included:

Miner McQueen       Baptized Feb. 6        Dismissed Feb. 1820
John Weels       By letter May 1        Deceased 12-8-1832
John Mott       By Letter June 5       

Sarah Weels (Wells)Baptized May 1                                   
Anna NormanBy letter July 3 Dismissed Feb. 1820

Source: MUSKINGUM COUNTY FOOTPRINTS Volume 4 December 1985
Property ofMuskingum County Genealogical Society


JURY LIST OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY, OHIO l818-1830
Copied by Sylvia Hargrove and Hilda Yinger

Last Name       First Name       Township       Year

McQuin       Minor       Springfield       1819


Source: MUSKINGUM COUNTY FOOTPRINTS Volume 2 1984
Property ofMuskingum County Genealogical Society


MUSKINGUM COUNTY, OHIO, WILL BOOKS INDEX 1804 THRU 1831
Copied by Sylvia Hargrove and Hilda Yinger

Last Name       First Name       Case No.       Page       Type       Book       Date Probated

HAWBEARD THOMAS       909              375       WILL       B       26 JAN 1830                     
Source: MUSKINGUM COUNTY FOOTPRINTS Volume 4 December 1985
Property ofMuskingum County Genealogical Society

Note:The named Executor of the above identified will was Minor McQueen

                            CASE No. 909 A
                            WILL of Thomas Hawbeard, dec              
                            FILED January 26 1830

Transcription of subject wills follows:
                                   
In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Hawbeard of Muskingum County State of Ohio being weak in Body but of Sound and Perfect mind and memory blessed the Almighty God for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say:
First I give and bequeath unto my eldest Daughter Elizabeth Hawbeard the Sum of one Dollar. I do also give and bequeath unto my two youngest daughters Sarah and Polly Hawbeard the Sum of one Dollar Each. I also give and bequeath unto Minor McQueen his heirs and assigns four Hundred Dollars that is now in the hands of Thomas Williams and the Said Minor McQuin is to pay all funeral expenses.
I hereby appoint Minor McQuin of Falls township Muskingum County my sole Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made and witnessedI have hereunto let my hand and seal this 16th of June 1828

                                                        Signed:Thos Hawbeard

Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named Thomas Hawbeard to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witness in the presence of the testator

                                                        Signed: James Everett
                                                        Signed: Alexander Ramey       


My research notes re: Thomas Hawbeard.

Was reported a casualty (wounded) in Battle of Paoli, American Revolution War, Sept 20, 1777, Paoli, Pa(www.ushistory.org/paoli/historycasualities.htm)

Enumerated in 1800 Census of Pennsylvania as residing in Bucks County Pa(Pa 1800 Census Index Book)
Did not review microfilm image for “Head of Household “listing to determine if any pertinent family data was recorded.

Before 1818, Thomas Hawbeard purchased 158.49 acres of land: Range 15, Township.18, Section 12, NE ¼, in Newton Township of Muskingum County, Ohio(A Listing of Entrymen on Lands in Muskingum Co., Ohio, Page 53, by L. Richard Kocher, 459 Ross Rd Columbus OH 43213-1953. Published by Woolkoch Publishing, same address)


Revolutionary War Soldier, Hawsbeard, Thomas or Thomas Hawbeard, S41609, PA Line, applied 4 May 1818 Muskingum Co OH, in 1820 he was aged 76 & stated he had no family & lived among friends.
(Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files. Abstracted by Virgil D. White, published by The National Historical Publishing Co. Waynesboro, TN,1991)

Have not reviewed his Pension file #S41609.
       

February 12, 1822, Thomas Hawbeard sold his158.49 acres of land to Thomas Williams of Muskingum Co, Ohio, for $1000.
(Muskingum Co. Ohio, Recorder’s Office, Volume G - Page 450)

Observation:

1820 - Thomas Hawbeard, age 76, stated in his pension application that he had no family and lived with friends.
                                                  1828 - Thomas Hawbeard, in his will, bequeaths $1.00 each to his three daughters: Elizabeth, Sarah, & Polly. No mention of age or guardianship. Are we to assume they are unmarried adults?

Was he married before 1820? Or did he marry after 1820?
                     
Was he disabled, because of his military service wound, and required assisted living from friends?
       
What was his relationship to Minor McQueen?Family or just a Friend?

Is this the Minor McQueen that purchased 80 acres of land in Fallsbury Township, Licking County, Ohio, dated February 10, 1831, per Rhoda H.Wilson, Researcher of Minor McQueen’s descendants?

Can we find a timeline that connects the bits and pieces of information,that we all are gathering, to form some logical conclusions from our research of Minor McQueen’s ancestry?

A big puzzlement!………..Yes.Need more research?………….Yes