James MacQueen

Merchant in Kingston. Presumably related to Daniel MacQueen (q.v.).

Memorial inscription in Kingston Cathedral: DANIEL MACKQUEEN, OF KINGSTON PARISH, ESQRE. OB. 8 JULY 1758, AET MARY HIS YOUNGEST DAUR., BY JANE HANBURY MACKQUEEN, HIS 2d WIFE, OB. 27 JUNE 1760, AET. 2 YRS. 10 MTHS. ALSO JAS. MACKQUEEN, MERCHT. OB. 19 FEB 1765, AET. 49.

James Macqueen of Kingston, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1765. Slave-ownership at probate: 8 of whom 5 were listed as male and 3 as female. 1 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £2789.41 Jamaican currency of which £655 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £1819.47 currency debts and £31.32 currency plate.

James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 98.

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.