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From: Brent Kennedy <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Swan Burnett
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:32:14 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <12b.226ba08b.2b790eeb@aol.com>


Joanne,

Also with all due respect, Burnett - not me - says they were in Cocke County. Maybe you missed that section. In any event, his article speaks for itself and that's why I included all of it. Thanks.

Brent
wrote:In a message dated 2/10/2003 8:50:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

> Below is Burnetts full statement with my comments following his central
> points (mine begin with BK:). My comments begin approximately halfway
> through Burnetts thesis (I wanted the reader to have the entire article).
>

Brent,

With all due respect the only difference between your "comments" and
Burnett's "comments" are a hundred years. In my opinion you can not prove
the Melungeons were "anywhere" else just because no one said they weren't,
doesn't make sense. Jarvis, Dromgoole, Osborne, Burnett, etc., say they were
in East Tennessee. Where is it written they were anywhere else? Where and
when?

There was obvious migration [probably in great numbers] into and out of
Newman's Ridge after 1800. Valentine Collins, Jesse Gibson, Micajah Bunch,
even descendants of Buck Gibson, all went to Kentucky. While the kin that
stayed behind were known as Melungeons these descendants were not. Even the
descendants of Solomon Bolton, the most famous Melungeon case never heard of
a Melungeon. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhamilt/miscqrys.htm-See
Simmerman-Bolton]

Somehow, sometime, someone is going to have to put a date, place and names to
the beginnings of the Melungeons, not with comments but with sources. Just my
opinion.

Joanne Pezzullo
http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html
To weet a wicked villaine, bold and stout,
Which wonned in a rocke not farre away,
That robbed all the countrie there about,
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For he so crafty was to forge and face,
So light of hand, and nymble of his pace,
So smooth of tongue, and subtile in his tale,
That could deceive one looking in his face;
Therefore by name Malengin they him call,
Well knowen by his feates, and famous ouer all.
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Spencer's FAIRE QUEENE 1596




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