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Gibson
Surname ID: 1823
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- UPDATED: 3.21.2025
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notes:
Gibson is one of the primary Melungeon surnames.
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RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Choctaw Freedman Surnames | Creek Freedman Surnames | Seminole Surnames – Freedman and Blood Rolls | Recognized Melungeon Names Today | Recognized Names of Magoffin County Group | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Carmel Indians (Ohio) | Redbones (Louisiana via the Carolinas) | 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 | 
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1830 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee | 
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee | 
1860 U.S. Census – Panther Creek, Hancock County, Tennessee
resources:
mentions:
A Church Book for Stony Creek Church | 
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America | 
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia | 
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy | 
Melungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill Gipson | 
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race | 
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States | 
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge | 
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past | 
A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States | 
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America | - Melungeon Voices S4 E4 – Aaron Collins |
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830 | 
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People | 
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population | 
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel) | 
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee | 
Melungeon History and Myth | 
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky | 
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio | 
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies | 
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia | 
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al. | 
Melungeon Portraits: Exploring Kinship and Identity | 
Melungeons Yesterday and Today | 
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775