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From: lawson <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Re: Melungeon-D Digest V02 #1034
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:11:25 -0500
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Penny Ferguson wrote:

> Well show me that this is true.(below) I know people in Hancock Co TN who
> had Native American heritage, and were never referred to as Melungeon, until
> later generations when they married in to some Melungeon families. Penny

I know of the same situations, and I also know mixed race (Native Am) from NC
(late 1700s-early 1800s) who were never known as Melungeon. Members of the
family were known as Black John, etc., but they were accepted as white.
SueBee

> considerably closerly in size to the former than to
> the latter, there was a group of inter-related mixed race families living on
> the Cumberland Plateau as of the early 19th century to which the identified
> in writing Melungeons were related and of which they were a part.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html

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