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Subject: Re: [MELUNGEON] Tri-Racial Isolates Take Center Stage on AnitaTalksGenealogy
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:10:02 EDT



In a message dated 9/19/2009 12:42:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

If the Melungeons indeed began as a remnant Indian
community, they ceased living the Indian life two centuries ago, and
that's why we don't call them Indians today.



I'm sure you are aware of the statement; "The Collins and Gibson’s were
living as Indians in Virginia before they migrated to North Carolina."

Micajah Bunch
listed as living on Indian lands. His land was on Elk Creek in current day
Ashe Co., NC. He is in William Herbert's company in 1771.

The Fincastle 1772 and 1773 list includes: David (Indian lands), Ambrose,
John, John Jr., Charles (Indian lands), Elisha, Samuel (Indian land),
Lewis, George (Indian land) Collins and Micajer Bunch (Indian Land).

You might also want to check the 1900 census of Magoffin County where these
'tri racial isolates' are identified as Indians -- they probably were no
longer living in teepees but I doubt the Cherokee in Oklahoma were either.

TENNESSEE
the civilized [self-supporting] Indians of Tennessee, counted in the
general census, number 146 [71 males and 75 female] and are distributed as
follows.
Hawkins county, 31; Monroe county, 12' Polk county 10; other counties [8
or less n each]. 93

In a number of states small groups of people, preferring the freedom of
the woods or the seashore to the confinement of regular labor in
civilization, have become in some degree distinct from their neighbors, perpetuating
their qualities and absorbing into their number those of like disposition,
without preserving very clear racial lines. Such are the remnants called
Indians in some states where a pure-blooded Indian can hardly longer be found.
In Tennessee such a group, popularly known as Melungeans, in addition to
those still known as Cherokee.


And from
Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed in the United States
(except. Alaska) at the Eleventh Census: 1890.
Washington, DC: US Census Printing Office

Page 594
TENNESSEE
the civilized [self-supporting] Indians of Tennessee, counted in the
general census, number 146 [71 males and 75 female] and are distributed as
follows.
Hawkins county, 31; Monroe county, 12' Polk county 10; other counties [8
or less n each]. 93

And that is just in Tennessee and Kentucky

Alabama
THE EMASSEEES AND MALUNJINS

One tribe of Indians and a community of mixed breed Indians were
unmolested by
the whites. These were the Uchees or Emassees, kinsman of the Seminoles or
Creeks, who lived at the mouth of the Emassee or O'Mussee or Mercer creek
near
Columbia, and the Malunjins, a mixed breed community residing some three
to six
miles northeast of Dothan toward Webb even as late as 1865. Where the
Malunjins
came from nobody knows; where they were dispersed to is the limbo of
forgotten
men. B. P. Poyner, Sr., father of Houston County Probate Judge,
S.P.Poyner, was
born in the Malunjins' community. Some of these mixed breed Indians
brought milk
to Mr. Poyner's mother while he was an infant.



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