By Helen Campbell
At a meeting of palefaces and red men at Fort Pitt, February 19, 1770, the
following original deed was passed:
"Know all men, by these present that Whereas a certain Garret
Pendergrass Senior of Bedford Settlement in the province of
Pennsylvania"...read more
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Possible Croatan and Mattamuskeet Descendants
These eighteen European surnames have the strongest connection and identification with the Croatan and Mattamuskeet Indians from Dare, Tyrrell and Hyde Counties
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Brent Kennedy, "Many words
- of which only a few appear below - indicate Turkish or Ottoman origins. The Ottoman Empire at that time included Turkey, Egypt, Syria, most of North Africa, and the Balkans - Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. Many of the words are old Ottoman, as opposed to modern Turkish, adding even more credence to the similarities."....
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Virginia Tide Water Indians encountered explorers from
Spain, France, England and Portugal in the early
sixteenth century. The kingdoms of the Old World
attempted to position settlements to claim the land in
the Americas for their countries. Soon after Columbus
found the route to the Americas the Spaniards began to
bring families to settle the Southeast. Among these
people were Christian ministers to convert the 'savages"
to Christianity.....
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CROATIA and CROATIANS and the LOST COLONY
1585-1590
By Adam S. Eterovich
The Melungeon, Lumbee, and Croatan groups in America
claim to be a mixture of Indian and European mariners,
liberated slaves, Lost Colonists, and remnants of
Spanish and Portuguese settlements. There is
considerable speculation as to the origin of the name
Melungeon.....
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by Helen Campbell
So many people ask me, "I think my ancestors were
Melungeons, but I'm not sure." Well welcome to the Melungeon Club. One clue to your mixed ancestry is the location and the surnames of your ancestors. The
Melungeons were common through out the Southeastern Appalachian Mountains which
includes North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and also Kentuckys.... read more
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Voyagers to America 1509-1584
The year of 1492 marked the end of the Spanish
conquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims.
In that same year Christopher Columbus stepped
ashore Bahamian inlet of San Salvador and claimed
the land for Spain. The people who greeted Columbus
and his crew were the Arawak and Taino peoples. The
following year 1493, the first Spanish settlement in
the New World was established at Hispanola.
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by Helen Campbell
Prior to the white man's arrival in America, a chain of separate but interacting Algonquian communities thrived along the Atlantic coastline. The Indians thrived in communities from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of St. Lawrence....read more |
W. A. Plecker's list of "mongrel Virginians"
proved quite helpful in our recent efforts to demonstrate how Melungeon
mixed-race families migrated westward from eastern Virginia, and how many
Appalachian surnames correspond with Plecker's list of "mongrel" surnames of
eastern Virginia.....
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melungeon.com is dedicated to bringing you information about the Melungeon Movement. Which
began in 1997 at the First Union in Wise, Virginia when about one thousand people showed up at the College of Wise campus to reclaim their lost heritage. The "Melungeon Movement" is about racial and ethnic harmony. It took its name IN HONOR of the original Melungeons who were ethnically diverse but came together as ONE people to survive and live in peace and harmony. The Movement HONORS these early pioneers and they serve as a model
for ethnic and racial relations.
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