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From: cmtill2109 <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] The Southern Mountaineers (cont-2)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 08:28:26 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <20030201152303.95781.qmail@web21302.mail.yahoo.com>


> --- cmtill2109 <> wrote:
> > Written by Samuel Tyndale Wilson D.D. Printed in
> > 1906.
> > After checking the copyright laws this work has
> > outlived its 95 years of protection.

Chapter 2 (cont)

Other Strains

There are, especially in the valleys, numerous
Huguenot names that once belonged to the noble people
who were driven from France by the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes, and the dragonades that followed that
revocation. Most of these Huguenots came to the
mountains by the way of Charleston and Savannah, the
great Huguenot ports of entry for the South; while
others came with the Scotch-Irish from Ulster where
they had taken refuge.

English and German names are also frequent in the
Appalachians, as is to be expected; though the German
names are not of any recent immigration but rather may
be traced back in many cases to "the Pennsylvania
Dutch." Occasionally the student of sociology may
stumble upon a community that is a puzzle, as, for
example, that one occupied by the "Malungeons" of
upper East Tennessee.

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