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Collins
Surname ID: 1799
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- UPDATED: 3.24.2025
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notes:
Collins is one of the primary Melungeon surnames.
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places:
connections:
Melungeons | Magoffin County Group | Redbones | Guineas | Powhatan | Pamunkey | English | Scottish | Irish | Sol’s Tribe | Tutelo
RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Recognized Melungeon Names Today | Recognized Names of Magoffin County Group | Guineas (West Virginia Melungeon) | Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians (Virginia) | Redbones (Louisiana via the Carolinas) | Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Surnames of Probable Melungeon Descent | Free Black Surnames (Albemarle County)
records:
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina | 
1820 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 | 
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
resources:
mentions:
A Church Book for Stony Creek Church | 
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States | 
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee | 
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South | 
Beyond the Sunset: The Melungeon Outdoor Drama, 1969-1976 | 
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America | 
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830 | 
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia | 
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. | 
Melungeon History and Myth | 
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity | 
Melungeon Voices S1 E1 – Frederick Murphy | - Melungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill Gipson |
- Melungeon Voices S4 E4 – Aaron Collins |
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population | 
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past | 
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America | 
Melungeons Yesterday and Today | 
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge | 
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio | 
Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky | 
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race | 
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People | 
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky | 
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies | 
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia | 
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
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