Florence McQueen

(dtr Hugh Cptn Armadale & Sleat "of Camucross")

Also seen as daughter of Austin Moore McDonald

Notes

Clan Donald Magazine No 4 (1968) Online
Flora and Allen MacDonald in America by Robert Archibald Logan, Duluth, Minnesota. < link >

Flora MacDonald, daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton, South Uist, step-daughter of "One-eyed Hugh" MacDonald of Armadale and Sleat; wife of Allen MacDonald of Kingsburgh, Isle of Skye; mother of four sons who served in the armed forces of the British Crown in North America during the American War of Independence, 1775-1783, was one of the most renowned female members of Clan Donald. ….

… In the autumn of the year 1774, Flora and her husband and several of their children arrived in North Carolina to make a new home in the New World, among the many Scottish Highlanders who had settled in the Cape Fear River valley of North Carolina.

Relatives of Flora who had preceded her to North Carolina included:

• her step-father, the former Captain Hugh MacDonald who, in all probability, had been the brain behind the escape of Prince Charles (whom he traditionally believed he was obligated to protect as his lawful monarch; in spite of his lack of enthusiasm for Charles Edward Stuart as a man);
• her half-sister Annabella and her husband Captain Alexander MacDonald of Cuidrach and several of their sons, and
• her half-sister Florence and her husband Archibald MacQueen, who lived on a plantation of Alexander MacDonald of Cuidrach.