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."
The
Melungens
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
DNA
Research into the Benjamin Collins, Burgess Collins, etc., Read
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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
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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school' ideas which is based on outdated research, most of which has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
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REVIEW OF JOGG ARITCLE REVIEW
by Joanne Pezzullo
Walter Plecker
Plecker’s work
appears to be gaining strength by adopting the idea that the ‘one
drop’ of African blood invalidates any claim to Native American
ancestry. In other words if there is any trace of African ancestry
they are no longer “Indians” but become Free African
Americans. When the Native tribes mixed with the English they
certainly did not become English and no one called them whites nor
when they mixed with the French, Germans, etc. They were still
‘called’ Indians.
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Letters from Bonnie S.
Ball
As to the Melungeons, I had
known them since childhood, since my father had them living as
tenants on our farm when I was 8 or 9 years old. He had grown up in
the Blackwater, Va., area and known them all his life.
So this has been a fascinating
subject for me and I still feel convinced that they are a mixture of
Moorish, Portuguese, Croatan Indians, and a small portion of
Anglo-Saxon blood that was left from the final massacre of the
Roanoke Island colony in North Carolina. If not, how can we explain
why they use old Elizabethan English expressions and all the older
ones said they were "Porty-gee."
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