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ancestors:
places:
connections:
Anglo-Saxon | English | Scots | Lumbee | Croatan | Muscogee (Creek) | Choctaw | Seminole | Gullah/Geechee
RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
records:
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina | 
1820 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee | 
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee | 
1860 U.S. Census – Panther Creek, Hancock County, Tennessee
resources:
mentions:
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge | 
We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories | 
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997 | 
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided | 
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel) | 
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775 | 
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830