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Surname ID: 1847
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- UPDATED: 7.21.2025
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RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Creek Freedman Surnames | Seminole Surnames – Freedman and Blood Rolls | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Cubans (North Carolina) | Lumbee/Croatan Indian (North and South Carolina) | 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
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
resources:
mentions:
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided
Melungeons: Examining an Appalachian Legend
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel)
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
Free Negro Owners of Slaves the United States in 1830
Washed in the Blood