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    Thomas McQueen

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Steve McQueen — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 78 
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    • Birth Date:
    • Dec 1761 
    • Birth Location:
    • Baltimore, Maryland 
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    • Death Date:
    • 27 Mar 1838 
    • Death Location:
    • Bartholomew County, Indiana 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Liberty Cemetery, Clifford, Bartholomew, Indiana 
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1785 
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    • Children:

      • Mary McQueen

      Uriah S. McQueen

      Joshua McQueen

      John McQueen

      Benjamin McQueen

      Joseph McQueen

      Elizabeth McQueen (Ahnentafel No:39 )

      Sarah Vaughn "Sallie" McQueen

      Jane Nancy "Jennie" McQueen

      Debora McQueen

      Nancy McQueen

      Thomas McQueen

    • Notes: 

    • Thomas McQueen served as a private during the American Revolution. He served in Col. William Crawford's 1782 expedition to destroy American Indian towns along the Muskingum and Sandusky Rivers in Ohio. The goal was to end Indian attacks against American settlers. However the expedition would become more famously known as Crawford's Defeat after the British and their Indian allies learned about Crawford's expedition.

      The two forces would meet along the Sandusky on June 4, 1782. After two days of indecisive battling and the quick reinforcement of the enemy by British troops from Detroit, Col. Crawford's forces attempted to retreat, but the retreat turned into a rout. About 70 of Crawford's 500 men were killed, and Crawford along with an unknown number of his men were captured. Among these captured men was reportedly Thomas McQueen.

      After their capture, Col. Crawford and some of his men were executed by the Indians in retaliation for a previous massacre earlier that year by Pennsylvania militiamen against the Indians. Col. Crawford's execution was particularly brutal as he was tortured for a number of hours before being burned at the stake. Although Thomas McQueen survived these executions, he did not go unscathed. The Indians gave Thomas McQueen a beating while Thomas was forced to run the gauntlet. He would later claim that these beatings were responsible for his memory loss and going nearly blind.

      Thomas McQueen remained a prisoner of the Indians for a year when he was able to finally escape to the British. After about six months in British captivity, he managed to escape again. After making it about 100 miles on his way home, he was retaken prisoner by the Indians and sold to the British. This time he was put in irons and after about three months was offered “his liberty” if he would enlist in the British Army. He refused and remained a prisoner until the end of the war at which time he was able to return home. Thomas McQueen recounted the ordeals he suffered after Crawford's defeat in his application for a pension he filed in 1832.

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