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From: "Susan D. Chambless" <>
Subject: [JOHNS] Fw: PML Search Result -- Johns as a Monacan surname
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:00:14 -0600


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From: Louise Vanover Vore <>
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Subject: PML Search Result matching johns ANDNOT (johnson OR x-loop/JOHNS-L
OR x-loop/JOHN-L OR "Johns Hopkins" OR ("St" NEAR "Johns") )


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> Subject: [Melungeon] Saponi Indian Book Address
>
>
> Good Morning,
>
> I found the address,
>
> Richard and Vicki Haithcock
> P.O. Box 221,
> Xenia, Ohio 45385
>
> The order form I have shows a 3 volume set. We only have one.
> I think they have an email but I don't have it.
>
> I love this book, our Head Historian 's Grandmother's picture is in it and
one of the volunteers is a John Jefferies and this is his family.This book
is great it has pictures , census names ,also explains the Melungeon
connection,etc.
>
> The book says :
> . Indian genes also show up in many of the unusual "racial
> isolates" or "little races" of the Southeast; groups like the Brass
Ankles,
> the Haliwas, and the Melungeons.
>
> The Moncans also known historically as the Saponi, Tutelo, Occaneechi and
> Monacan by Capt. John Smith at Jamestown, Virginia. The Monacans shared
the
> same ancestoral past as the Saponi. Monacan Core family names are:
> Hicks, Redcross, Johns, Beverly and Branham.
>
>
> Indians with Saponi origins have the surnames Chavis, Braveboy, Ransome,
> Burnett, Gibson, Austin, Hammons, Mayo, Coins, Collins, Revells, Scott,
Guy,
> Sweat, Taborn, Payne, Green, Bullen, Brewer and Simmons.
>
>
> 1753 -Various tax list for Orange Co., N.C. include several families
> surnames of mulattoes such as: Bunch, Gibson, Collins and Goings;
> approximately 30 Saponi lived in Granville Co., N.C. in 1755.
>
> I
> Refer to the surname list of Grainger and Hawkins Co's., Tennessee.
>
>
> North Carolina the legal category Mulatto meant having one white parent
and
> one non-white parent. The non-white parents could be either Indian or
Negro.
> Some individuals in these families are listed as white, a few are listed
as
> black, and occasionally an individual is listed as an Indian.... this
meant
> full-blood Indian... .by definition, a mixed-blood Indian would be a
> Mulatto.
>
> 1830 - Tennessee
>
> A similar situation existed in Tennessee where the so-called Melungeon
> people (probably Saponi-Powhatan) of Hawkins, Grainger and nearby counties
> were often classed as 'free colored" and mulatto, but occasionally also as
> white.
>
>
> Please remember this is just a few lines from this great book, but it does
give you an idea whats in it,
>
> This book might be a good research tool for the Melungeon Research Team
if they are not aware of it.
>
> Brenda of Appalalian Mountain Families fame made a great connection.
>
> This books has a list of surnames of Southeastern Indian Family Surnames
>
> and the MOORE name is one of them, with a lot of my surnames, Austin/Sa.
,Baker,Beverly,Freeman / Cr.,Hammond/Sa.
>
> Long, Mullins/ Sa., Reed ? Mh., Spears, Taylor, /Cr.,/Sa.,/Tu.and many
more.
>
> The book is written by Richard and Vicky HAITHCOCK, information taken from
>
> OCCANEECHI, SAPONI, AND TUTELO
> of the
> SAPONI NATION:
> THE PIEDMONT CATAWBA
> Written and Complied by
> Richard Haithcock and Vicky Haithcock
>
>
>
>
> Louise
>
>
>
>
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