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kentuck

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6. In researching the family in the mountains of NC...

Reply to carolinayellowdog (Reply #5)

Fri May 25, 2012, 07:04 PM

May 2012

Some people came up from SC into the Asheville/Rutherford County area in the late 1700's, which was then called Indian Territory. Soldiers that fought in the Revolution were given anywhere from 50 to 200 acres to settle the area. There was no specific boundary for Tennessee at the time. Some came from around the Spartanburg area and moved north into the corner of what is now NC and later moved over into Tennessee. There was a huge migration around 1820 which scattered these folks throughout TN, KY, north Georgia, and over into AL, MS, and MO, as well as other places. My family moved from NC into the Cumberland Gap area about 1828.

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DNA study seeks origin of Appalachia's Melungeons [View all] HiPointDem May 2012 OP

There were several families in SE Kentucky... kentuck May 2012 #1

Also, there the Pridemores, the Gibsons, and the Goins... kentuck May 2012 #3

Collinses, Goinses, Gibsons, all traceable along the NC/VA line moving westward into the mountains carolinayellowdog May 2012 #8

I always found this topic very interesting... kentuck May 2012 #9

You might want to read this book about the lost colonists of Croatan ... eppur_se_muova May 2012 #11

The DNA says African + european. 77 family lines tested, all lines that were listed as melungeon HiPointDem May 2012 #12

Very interesting history. northoftheborder May 2012 #2

Many historians suggest they are of Portuguese descent... kentuck May 2012 #4

lost colonies stuntcat May 2012 #10

Raleigh was a slave trader. As were a lot of explorers of the period, but they don't tell us that HiPointDem May 2012 #16

The history of the term Melungeon is as complicated as the genetics and genealogy carolinayellowdog May 2012 #5

In researching the family in the mountains of NC... kentuck May 2012 #6

Article says they studied only descendants of families called Melungeon in records from the 1800s. HiPointDem May 2012 #14

families can have multiple lines-- there's no disagreement here carolinayellowdog May 2012 #17

cyd... kentuck May 2012 #19

Thanks for posting Randomthought May 2012 #7

weird. it's like nobody read the article. nobody talks about the DNA results, just the lost colony. HiPointDem May 2012 #13

Claiming native American heritage was a strategy used all over this continent EFerrari May 2012 #15

True that Bohunk68 May 2012 #18