Col. James MacQueen died at his home, Queensdale.

He was the son of Archibald MacQueen and Florence MacDonald who was the half-sister of Flora MacDonald, the famous Scottish heroine.

His sisters who immigrated with him:

Mary Polly MacQueen Strickland
Isabelle MacQueen d. 1825
Annabella Nepsey MacQueen Currie
Margaret MacQueen MacRae

Col. James MacQueen was lineally descended from King Robert Bruce of Scotland.

He married Ann MacRae from Kintyre, Scotland about 1790.

Unto this couple were born 12 children:

Archibald MacQueen 1791-1851
Flora MacDonald MacQueen Bunting 1793-1845
Margaret MacQueen 1794-1810
Catherine MacQueen MacQueen 1796-1862
Sarah MacQueen McEachin 1797-1829
Annabella MacQueen McEachin 1803-1865
Edmund MacQueen 1804-1858
Neill MacQueen 1805-1835
John MacQueen 1807-1867
James Hugh MacQueen 1809-1878
Maria MacQueen MacEachin 1811-1891
Charity Ann Lee MacQueen MacCallum 1813-1884

Col. James MacQueen was buried in Stewartsville Cemetery.

"The emigrant vessel which brought the MacQueen family safely across the broad Atlantic, after a six weeks' voyage landed in the port of Brunswick, or Wilmington. Thence these rugged Highlanders made their way up the Cape Fear, settling along the banks of that river, and penetrating into the counties of Bladen, Robeson, Richmond, Moore,
Anson, and Montgomery. In the county of Anson, near the present site of Wadesboro, the MacQueens first located, and there for some years Col. James MacQueen was occupied in teaching school. It is a source of universal regret to his descendants that no picture of this, our illustrious ancestor, is in existence, and only through family tradition we learn that he was a man of superb physique and noble presence, with the courtly bearing which became the princely scion of a royal line.

He had auburn hair, fair and ruddy complexion, with the bonny blue eyes which were characteristic features among many of the pioneer Scotch. Combined with the kind, generous heart, his manners were affable, and his personality winning and magnetic. For that period he was a man of superior culture, given to widespread hospitality; and Queensdale was noted for its splendid entertainment. He became a man of great influence and popularity, and was deputy clerk of Superior Court of Robeson County during the terms when his two sons-in-law, Mr. Richard Bunting, and Col. Archibald AlacEachin, filled the office of clerk. The handwriting of Col. James MacOueen was exceedingly beautiful, and there is a fac-simile specimen given on a page of this book. He was Colonel of a militia regiment, and an acting Justice of the Peace at the time of his death, which occurred at his home, at Queensdale, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, lamented by his family and
hosts of friends." Source: "The MacQueens of Queensdale; a biography of Col. James MacQueen and his descendants"
∼DIED,
At Queensdale, in Robeson county, on Monday night last, Col. James M'Queen, a gentleman of great worth and respectability.
—Published in Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), June 24, 1824, p. 3.