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Melungeon History and Myth
Resource ID: 10332
Type: journal article, article
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- UPDATED: 10.4.2025
- Migration, Melungeons, Mixed Ancestry Peoples, Origin Theory, History, Populations, Race+Ethnicity, Identity, Folklore, Culture
- Jim Crow, mulatto
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publication:
DOI:
n/a
date:
Summer 1999
pages:
pp. 358-409
notes:
Several Melungeon and Native American migrations are mentioned in this article. I plan to add those to this page soon.
abstract:
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ancestors:
Robin Lawson | Martin Collins | Lewis Collins | William Sexton | John Bowling | John Collins | Charles Collins | George Collins | Samuel Collins | Charles Sexton b.1750 | Lucrecy Collins | George Gibson | James Collins | John Bolin | Mike Bolin | Paul Bunch | Benjamin Collins | Solomon D “Old Sol” Collins b.1799 | Elisha D Sexton b.1774 | John Gibson | Jesse Bolin | David Gibson | Thomas Gibson | Tiny Collins | Henry Gibson | David Goings | Vardeman “Vardy” Collins b.1764 | Micajah “Cage” Bunch b.1733
places:
Appalachia | Virginia | North Carolina | Tennessee | Kentucky | Southwest Virginia | Eastern Kentucky | East Tennessee | Louisiana | South Carolina | Newman’s Ridge (Hancock Co, TN) | Russell County, VA | Wise County, VA | Scott County, VA | Clinch River | Stony Creek (Scott Co, VA) | Fort Blackmore | High Knob | Stone Mountain (Lee Co, VA) | Lee County, VA | Blackwater Creek (Hancock Co, TN) | Powell River | Pennington Gap | Powell Mountain | Copper Ridge (Hancock Co, TN) | Stony Creek Church (Scott Co, VA) | Mulberry Gap (Hancock Co, TN) | Vardy Valley (Hancock Co, TN) | Indian Ridge | Sneedville (Hancock Co, TN) | New River | Yadkin River Valley | Rockingham County, NC | Surry County, NC | Ashe County, NC | Wilkes County, NC | Orange County, NC | Macon County, NC | Orange County, VA | Amherst County, VA | Roanoke River | Appomattox River | Bertie County, NC | Morocco | Carthage | Floyd County, KY | Wilson County, TN | Montgomery County, VA | Kittrell, NC | Tabbs Creek | Fort Christanna | Louisa County, VA | Botetourt County, VA | Granville County, NC | Lunenburg County, VA | Great Trading Path | Hancock County, TN | Morgan County, KY
peoples:
Carmel Indians | African American | Indigenous | European | Phoenicians | Lost Tribes of Israel | Black Dutch | Portuguese | Turkish | Moors | Scots-Irish | Shawnee | French | Saponi | Catawba | Occaneechi | Tutelo | Cheraw | Meherrin | Nansemond | Nottoway | Pochick | Tuscarora | Muscogee (Creek) | Haliwa-Saponi | Cherokee | Huguenots | Acadians | West African | Powhatan | Welsh | Roma | Greeks | Monacan | Swiss | Brazilian
events:
CMOS:
C. S. Everett. “Melungeon History and Myth.” Appalachian Journal 26, no. 4 (1999): 358–409. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40933999.
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