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The Melungeon Indians
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The legend of their history, which they carefully preserve, is this. A great many years ago, these mountains were settled by a society of Portuguese Adventurers, men and women, who came from the long-shore parts of Virginia, that they might be freed from the restraints and drawbacks imposed on them by any form of government. These people made themselves friendly with the Indians and freed as they were from every kind of social government, they uprooted all conventional forms of society and lived in a delightful Utopia of their own creation." Newman's Ridge 1848
Melungeon DNA Projects DNA - Why it Won't Work A Scientific Researcher's View "That leaves mitochondrial and Y-chromosome tests. Regrettably, neither will work to solve the Melungeon mystery. They simply can not determine Melungeon ethnicity even in properly selected subjects." Read Here
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Whole Indian Nations have melted away like snowballs in the sun before the white man's advance. They leave scarcely a name of our people except those wrongly recorded by their destroyers. ~Dragging Canoe 1776
Research Projects These are the projects I am working on currenty, would appreciate any help. Melungeons, Redbones & the Croatan Valentine Gibson & His Siblings Genealogies of the Pee Dee Families
This Website is not associated with Jack Goins or the Melungeon Historical Society and does not subscribe to their 'old school' ideas which is based on outdated research, most of which has been proven to be false
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February 5, 2011 This Weeks Features Hancock County - Moonshine, Feuds & Malungeons From The New York Sun - November 29th 1891 The negro strain is not spread thorough the whole race, as are the Indian and Caucasian strains, but is confined to a few families. In 1834 an attempt was made to bar them from voting, because of the alleged negro blood. They carried the matter into the courts, and the man who was the test plaintiff proved that he was Indian and Portuguese, and had no negro blood in his veins. Read Here Identity of Robeson County Indians Traced By Scientist John Swanton From The
Robesonian - Jul 13, 1933 "They presumably were recognized as whites at that time, but there is little doubt that they really were the ancestors of the present day Croatans," was the statement of the findings. Read Here
Hamilton McMillan Malungeons, Redbones and Croatans Letter to McDonald Furman October 12, 1889 The tribe once stretched from Cape Fear to Pee Dee and the Redbones of your section are a part of the tribe as are the "Melungeons" of East Tennessee. The French immigrants callled the half breeds Melange or Mixed and the term evidently has been changed to "Melungeons". Read Here |
