Melungeon Historical Society: Muster Roll of the Regiment in Granville County under the command of Col. William Eaton as taken at a General Muster of the said Regiment 8 October 1754

Muster Roll of the Regiment in Granville County under the command of Col. William Eaton as taken at a General Muster of the said Regiment 8 October 1754

Muster Roll of the Regiment in Granville County under the command of Col. William Eaton as taken at a General Muster of the said Regiment 8 October 1754
William Person Lieut. Col.
James Paine Major

	Capt. John Glover’s Company	23 24	Thomas Woodliffe Thomas Smith Mercht.
	_______________________	25	Littlebury Woodliffe
	George Glover, Lieut.	26	William Woodliffe
	Evan Ragland, Ensign	27	Ebenezer Wilson
1	Henry Bishop, Serjeant	28	Edward Harris Negro
2	William Glover, Sergt.	29	Daniel Potter
3	Joseph Lindsey, Sergt.	30	Abraham Estice
4	Joseph Bishop, Sergt.	31	John Bishop
5	Thomas King, Corporal	32	George Bishop
6	Richard Hargroves, Corporal	33	William Dickerson
7	Henry Fuller, Corp.	34	Emanuel Falkner
8	Bartlet Searcey, Corp.	35	Martin Dickerson
9	Thomas Loive	36	Thomas Sing
10	John Gossard, Drummer	37	Thomas Wiggins
11	John Blackman	38	James Welch
12	William Smith	39	John Waldrope
13	John Smith	40	Benjamin Ford
14	George Woodliffe	41	Hugh Montgomery
15	Solomon Blackman	42	William Holston
16	William Lawrence	43	John Kirkland
17	Littleton Spivey	44	John Hargrove
18	Thomas Smith	45	John Walker
19	Stephen Smith	46	John Searcy Junr.
20	William Chavers Negro	47	Samuel Paschal
21	William Chavers Jun Mul.	48	John Paschal
22	Gilberth Chavers Mulatto	49

50	Leonard Lyndsey	87	John Williams Junr.
51	Elisha Jones	88	Daniel ????uenan
52	Michael Bryant	89	Charles Williams
53	Edward Weaver	90	Joseph Glover
54	James Morefield	91	Henry Rearde
55	Alexander Burnet	92	Joseph Lindsey
56	William Edwards	93	William Falkner
57	Joseph Kimbal Jun	94	Benjamin Edwards
58	John Glover Jun.	95	William Marlow
59	John Bird	96	William Stroud
60	William Wagstaff	97	William Williams
61	Zachary Bullock		__________________
62	Joseph Davenport		Capt. Osborn Jeffreys' Company
63	Josiah Mitchel
64	Joseph Grey		__________________________
65	John Stroud		Richard White Lieut.
66	Terence McMullin		John McKisick, Ensign
67	John Weaver	1	Francis Bradly Serjeant
68	Henry Vandyck	2	Howard Worley Serj.
69	James Trevillian	3	John Farrell, Serj.
70	John Trevillian	4	William McBee, Corporal
71	Nathaniel Henderson	5	Thomas Cook, Corp.
72	John Smith Nut Bush	6	William Perry, Corp
73	William Woodward	7	John Martin, Corp
74	William Wood	8	John Sandland, Sen.
75	Penuel Wood	9	Peter Vinson
76	William Byas	10	Philemon Bradford Jun.
77	Moses Harwel	11	John Sutton
78	John Paterson	12	Arthur Fuller
79	William Cook	13	Timothy Fuller
80	Abraham Cook	14	Joseph Fuller
81	William Ford	15	James Sutton
82	Charles King	16	James Wade
83	John Norwood	17	John Sandland Jun.
84	Robert Mitchel	18	Robert Allen
85	John Williams	19	Joseph Farrell
86	Benjamin Wheatly	20	William Moxley

21	Robert Morgan	57	Austin Honycot
22	Isaac Winston	58	Joseph Bridgers
23	William White		Roger Bridges
24	John Green	59	Roger Reese
25	Thomas Huland	60	Thomas Jones
26	Thomas Mullins	61	William Faunt
27	John Young	62	George Maynard
28	William Porch	63	Nathaniel Jones
29	Thomas Bridges	64	Andrew Martin
30	Jeremiah Perry	65	Joseph Norris
31	Ambrose Crane	66	Richard Raybern
32	Francis Perry	67	John Duncan
33	John Perry	68	William Adkinson
34	William Ridings	69	Joseph Medlin
35	William Smith	70	James Bolton
36	Ezekiah Massey	71	William Winston
37	James Brogden	72	John Wright
38	John Golding	73	Samuel Carlisle
39	Thomas Brogden	74	John Garret
40	John Davis	75	John Wilder
41	Julius Alford	76	Anthony Lewis
42	Jacob Powel	77	Nathan Grimes
43	William Maynard	78	Thomas Gowen, Mulatto
44	Gibson Martin	79	Mickael Gowen, Mulatto
45	John Bradly	80	Edward Gowen, Mulatto
46	Nathaniel Perry	81	Robert Davis, Mulatto
47	William Cade	82	William Burnel, Mulatto
48	Andrew Harfield	83	William Mooney
49	John Mooney
50	Michael Perry
51	William Brewer
52	Francis Johnston
53	John Booker
54	Benjamin Arundel
55	Thomas Arundel
56	James Arundel

	Capt. Richard Coleman's Company	32 33	Charles Huckaby Charles Kimball
	_________________	34	Robert Ashley
	Robert Abernathy, Lieut	35	Moses Kennel
	Israel Robinson, Ensign	36	Thomas Person
1	William Sipson, Serjt.	37	Jennings Thompson
2	Thomas Harton, Serjt	38	Thomas Campbel
3	Mathew Robinson, Serjt	39	Thomas Howel
4	William Stroud, Serjt.	40	James Young
5	Moses Myrick	41	Daniel King
6	George Rhodes	42	John Morrison
7	John Shearing	43	Robert King
8	John Riggin	44	Charles King
9	Isaac Acrey	45	John King
10	John Dosier	46	Alexander Burnham
11	William Paschal	47	Isaiah Paschal
12	William Paschal Jun.	48	John Paschal
13	John Stroud	49	William Marlow
14	Richard Jones	50	George King
15	Richard Coleman Jun.	51	William Lervis
16	Richard Huckaby	52	Jesse Miller
17	Jacob Dansby	53	John Davis
18	Israel Robinson Jun.	54	Robert Callier
19	William Young	55	John Campbel
20	John Miller	56	Isaac Johnson
21	Jonathan Johnson	57	Daniel Colson
22	William Moore	58	William Hutchins
23	William Dugger	59	Ephraim McLemore
24	David King	60	Giles Carter
25	William Gilcrees	61	Robert Savage
26	William Read	62	Robert Duke
27	Samuel Bell	63	James Phillips
28	William Acrey	64	Daniel Pegram
29	Thomas Worley	65	Anthony Metcalfe
30	Thomas Walker	66	William Downey
31	James Walker	67	Benjamin Carrol

68 69	Nathaniel Nicholson William Smith		Capt. Daniel Harris Company
70	John Ellis		_____________________
71	Edward Cary		Thomas Bell, Lieut.
72	Samuel Thompson
73	John Bradly	1	Smith Paterson
74	Thomas Ballard	2	Lawrance Lancaster, Serj.
75	John Woolbank	3	Robert Nutt, Serj.
76	William Collins	4	Peter Green, Serj.
77	Edmund Adcock	5	Jon Mc??ails
78	Nicholas Robinson	6	Henry Lauter
79	John Jones	7	James Maddrey
80	Richard Ballard	8	John Leonard
81	Charles Edwards	9	John Birch
82	Leonard Griggs	10	George Patterson
83	Benjamin Murphy	11	William Burrows
84	John Robinson	12	Isaac Mabry
85	James Lester	13	William Ellis
86	Wiliam Gamlin	14	John Wren
87	John Kendrick	15	Richard Harris
88	James Kendrick	16	Edward Holiman
89	Alexander Berkley	17	Benjamin Nicholson
90	George Nicholls	18	James Harris
91	Phillip Roberts	19	Benjamin Egerton
92	James Nicholson	20	Lewis Paterson
93	Thomas Johnson	21	Edward Narramore
94	John Hawkins	22	Robert Harris
		23	Ellis Marquis
		24	Joseph Hackney
		25	Joseph Trulls
		26	Thomas Green
		27	Peter Kimball
		28	William Kimball
		29	Benjamin Kimball
		30	Jesse Edward
		31	William House

32	Edward Green	68	William Walker
33	Samuel Green	69	James Petty
34	John Cole	70	Edward Carlisle
35	William Duke	71	Richard Acock
36	William Duke Jr.	72	Francis Acock
37	Samuel Duke	73	Daniel Prince
38	John Duke	74	Samuel Mangham
39	Joseph Duke	75	Thomas Blancet
40	Patric Hargall	76	William Cooper
41	Richard Maddry	77	John Williams
42	Lewis Bobbet	78	John Hudson
43	Miles Bobbet	79	Chamberlaine Hudson
44	Charles Bartholomew	80	Henry Hudson
45	Thomas Parish	81	Isaac Hudson
46	John Green	82	Edward Young Jr.
47	William Cheek	83	Thomas Young
48	William Blake	84	William Davis
49	John Blake	85	Major Walker
50	James Sensing	86	Peter Sinath
51	Absalom Langston	87	Charles Harris
52	John Smart	88	Joseph Harris
53	Francis Capps	89	Joseph Bell
54	James Langston	90	Arthur Robinson
55	Solomon Langston	91	John Kicker
56	Joseph Green	92	William Meadows
57	John Potts	93	James Bettis
58	Peter Davis	94	Thomas Daniel
59	Richard Bennet	95	Robert Moore
60	John Motlow
61	John Person
62	Joseph Person
63	Solomon Atkinson
64	William Mangham
65	James Mangham
66	William Mangham Jr.
67	Eustace Daniel

	Capt. John Sallis's Company	32 33	John Thomason James Knott
	________________________	34	John Knott
	George Morris, Lieut.	35	Martin Wheeler
	James Mitchel, Ensign	36	John Howard
1	William Howlet, Serjt.	37	David Howard
2	William Hollyman, Serjt.	38	Solomon Howard
3	Richard Harris, Serjt.	39	Anthony Garnet
4	William Hicks, Corpl.	40	Timothy Carter
5	William Jordan, Corpl.	41	Samuel Carter
6	Henry Jordan, Corpl.	42	John Stovall
7	Thomas Morris, Corpl.	43	John Stovall Junr.
8	Thomas Newby, Corpl.	44	Bartholomew Stovall
9	George King, Drummer	45	Jeremiah Clayton
10	John Caven, Drummer	46	William Clayton
11	Thomas Bradford	47	William Gowen
12	James Bandy	48	John Gallimore
13	Robert Bandy	49	Jesse Parker
14	Jacob Perry	50	John Osborn
15	Henry Day Jun.	51	William Cragg
16	Simon Day	52	Jonathan Barret
17	Jeremiah Frazier	53	James Hembry
18	Thomas Christian	54	Robert Glidervell
19	David Mitchel	55	William Marius
20	William Moore Junr.	56	Graves Howard
21	Henry Howard	57	John Johnston
22	Nathaniel Holly	58	Francis King
23	William Holly	59	Thomas King Junr.
24	Enoch Rentfrow	60	Christopher Osborn
25	Lewis Thomas	61	Sherwood Harris
26	Lewis Edwards	62	Jonathan White Junr.
27	John Smith	63	George Jordan Junr.
28	Joseph Moore	64	Henry Fegan
29	John Bains	65	John Parish
30	Richard Roberts	66	William Ferguson
31	Richard Roberts Jr.	67	James Reeves

68	Harris Guillam	8	John Barford
69	Edward Loyd	9	John Thornton
70	Robert Gilley	10	William Beckham
71	William Gilley	11	William Wheeler
72	Mathew McKenny	12	Robert Whitaker
73	Claiborn Harris	13	Robert Day
74	David Parish	14	Abraham Green
75	James Ferguson	15	John Green
76	John Yancey	16	John Gibbs
77	Bartlet Yancey	17	Theophilus Goodwin
78	Joseph Gowen	18	Theophilus Goodwin Jr.
79	John Cragg	19	Thomas Goodwin
80	James Roberts Junr.	20	John Goodwin
81	Osborn Hedgpeth	22	Edward Thomas
82	John Simmons	23	James White
83	Christopher Harris	24	John Gant
84	Benjamin Simmons	25	John Gant Junr.
85	Joshua Nogins, alt. Butler	26	William Gant
86	Bartlet Shephardson	27	Isham Gant
87	Lewis Anderson	28	John Colley
88	William Bass	29	Richard Halcomb
89	George Anderson	30	John Halcomb
90	George Pettiford	31	Joseph Halcomb
	________________________	32	Henry Thornton
	Capt. Sugar Jones's Company	33	Benjamin Halcomb
	_________________________	34	Roger Thornton
	James Mosely, Lieut	35	George Bledsoe
		36	William Bledsoe
1	Francis Walker Sen.	37	Johsua Perry
2	William Wood	38	William Richardson
3	Miles Jones	39	John Boyd
4	Denis Lindsey	40	Thomas Zachry
5	Aaron Fussill	41	John Zachry
6	Benjamin Ward	42	William Dickerson
7	Shirley Watley	43	Thomas Fussill
		44	Arthur Crocker

45	John Wood	82	Lawrance Kerwin
46	Jacob Crocker	83	William Smith
47	Reuben Lawson	84	James Petty
48	Absalom Wells	85	Thomas Petty
49	Thomas Beekham	86	Lawrance Strother
50	Henry Weaver	87	Charles Liles
51	William Waters	88	Thomas Cook
52	Thomas Putman	89	William Vinson
53	William Cheek	90	James Barnet
54	Robert Cheek	91	William Beckham Jun.
55	Williamson Liles	92	Ephraim Estrige
56	Benjamin Thomson Jun.	93	Aaron Sherard
57	John Thomson	94	Thomas Wootan
58	William Thomas	95	George Wootan
59	Emanuel Falkner	96	Daniel Wootan
60	William Falkner	97	Robert Vasser
61	Simon Beckham	98	Richard Pinnel
62	John Rainwater	99	John Pinnel
63	James Rainwater	100	Joshua Pinnel
64	Lewis Brantly	101	William Saul
65	Joseph Brantly	102	Thomas Sing
66	John Brantly	103	William Willis
67	Hopkin Wilder	104	Thomas Martin
68	John Watson	105	Atkins McLemore
69	Thomas Cooper	106	James Talbot
70	Browning Williams	107	Joshua Yarbro
71	Hezekiah Ferrell	108	Thomas Sale
72	Francis Strother	109	Jeremiah Wooten
73	James Ray	110	John Wooten
74	William Underwood	111	James Wooten
75	William Watley	112	Thomas Delany
76	Shirly Watley Jun.	113	John Mosely
77	Henry Jennings	114	Thomas Crab
78	Moses Smithy	115	John Parsons
79	Thomas Harris	116	Richard Parsons
80	William Gibbons	117	Joseph Martin
81	Allan Montjoy	118	William Martin

119	Arthur Watson	11	William Moseley
120	John Serug Asken	12	William Thomas
121	Henry Brewer	13	Charles Ivey
122	William Takewell	14	Daniel Carrol
123	William Halley	15	John Duncan
124	Simon Taylor	16	Thomas Hunt Little Creek
125	Ambrose Bearding	17	Robert Smith
126	Samuel Freeman	18	Richard Crutchfield
127	Jeptha Ferrell	19	John Meekie
128	John Ferrell Jun	20	Henry Clark
129	John Debord	21	Thomas Hunt up the River
130	James Morriss	22	Saul Rackley
131	Thomas Harris	23	William Pace Jun.
132	Joseph Harris	24	Joseph Acorn Hectson
133	John Stanfield	25	Christopher Clark
134	Benjamin Rice	26	Joseph Brantly
135	Robert Clark	27	James Brantly
136	Thomas Carter	28	George Bledsoe
137	John Burdock	29	Thomas Woodly
138	Thomas Turner	30	Robert Moody Jun.
139	John Deer	31	William Hunt
140	George Underwood	32	William Jerkins
	_________________________	33	Lodowic Alford
	Capt. Benjamin Sims’s Company	34	Joseph Jeffries
	_________________________	35	William Hobbs
	John Burt, Lieut.	36	Thomas Jones
	William Mercy, Ensign	37	William Simmons
1	Giles Bowers, Serjeant	38	William Jones
2	John Bishop, Serjeant	39	James Hunt
3	William Eves, Serjeant	40	John Claiborn
4	James Ross, Corporal	41	Robert Clark
5	John Meldey, Corporal	42	Benjamin Rice
6	Mathew Mathews, Corporal	43	John Deer
7	William Jones, Drummer	44	Aaron Sherrud
8	Henry Ivey, Drummer	45	William Vinson
9	William Jackson	46	William Richardson
10	Thomas Smith	47	James White

48	Arthur Crocker		Capt. Andrew Hampton’s Company
49	Miels Rackley		_____________________
50	Parsons Rackley		John Adcock, Lieut.
51	John Rainwater		Ephraim Hampton, Ensign
52	Thomas Tharrington	1	Thomas Robinson
53	Robert Butler	2	William Williams, Serjeant
54	Edward Thomas	3	John Landers, Serjeant
55	John Reeves	4	John Williams, Serjeant
56	William Smith	5	Francis Davenport, Serjeant
57	John Smith	6	Absalom Baker, Corporal
58	George Woodly	7	Richard Ceverinton, Corporal
59	Joseph Wright	8	Carter Hedgepeth, Corporal
60	John Wright	9	Anthony Cassart, Drummer
61	James Massey	10	Darwin Elwick
62	John Douglas	11	William Ross
63	George Hill	12	Francis Rann
64	Francis Strother	13	Thomas Goss
65	Thomas West	14	Robert Boyd
66	Joseph Wright Jun.	15	Ephraim Merrit
67	James Pace	16	William Washington
68	James Smith	17	James Meadows
69	Nathaniel Smith	18	Benjamin Hubbard
70	John Parnel	19	John Clark
71	John Massey	20	Valentine White
72	William Edwards	21	John Jones
73	John Simmons	22	Moses Coppock
74	Barnaby Goodwin	23	John Ogowine
75	Samuel Fowler, Senr.	24	Partic Lashley
		25	Mathew Myers
		26	David Cassart
		27	John Landres Junr.
		28	James Bolling
		29	William Bolling
		30	Nicholas Horton
		31	Giles Hedgepeth
		32	Francis Falkner
		33	Leonard Adcock

34	John Marrown	Companies
35	Emanuel Falkner	Glovers’………97
36	Benjamin Bolling	Jefferies’………83
37	Daniel Blackman	Coleman’s……..94
38	Malachi Reeves	Harris’…………95
39	Minos Greggs	Sallis’………….90
40	Francis West	Jones’……..…140
41	Thomas May	Simmons’……..78
42	Samuel Flaick	Hampton’s….…60
43	Thomas Flaick	-----
44	Samuel Fuller	Total………784
45	David Straukan
46	Owen Read	6 December 1754
47	Samuel Smith
48	John Bolling	Willm. Eaton
49	Joseph Langston
50	John Mathews
51	James Morris
52	Samuel Johnson
53	David Stroud
54	Ebenezer Wilson
55	John Gibbs
56	William Smith
57	Joseph Halley
58	Lawrance Pettiford
59	Richard Watts
60	Peter Marrown






	Granville

Abstracted from the Original at the North Carolina Archives by Joel S. Russell

First Use of the word Melungeon

The earliest known written use of the word "Melungeon" is in an 1813 Scott County, Virginia Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Church record:

"Then came forward Sister Kitchen and complained to the church against Susanna Stallard for saying she harbored them Melungins. Sister Sook said she was hurt with her for believing her child and not believing her, and she won't talk to her to get satisfaction, and both is 'pigedish', one against the other. Sister Sook lays it down and the church forgives her."

The Melungeons were found here:

LITTELL'S 1849

You must know that within ten miles of this owl's nest, there is a watering-place, known hereabouts as 'black-water Springs.' It is situated in a narrow gorge, scarcely half a mile wide, between Powell's Mountain and the Copper Ridge, and is, as you may suppose, almost inaccessible. A hundred men could defend the pass against even a Xerxian army. Now this gorge and the tops and sides of the adjoining mountains are inhabited by a singular species of the human animal called MELUNGENS.

BURNETT 1889

It appears that the Melungeons originally came into east Tennessee from North Carolina, and the larger number settled in what was at that time Hawkins County, but which is now Hancock. I have not been able to hear of them in any of the lower counties of east Tennessee, and those I have seen myself were in Cocke county, bordering on North Carolina.

DROMGOOLE 1890

The Ridge proper is the home of the Melungeons. These people, of whom so little is known, inhabit an isolated corner of the earth, known as Newman’s ridge, in Hancock county. First, I saw in an old newspaper some slight mention of them. With this tiny clue I followed their trail for three years. The paper merely stated that “somewhere in the mountains of Tennessee there existed a remnant of people called Malungeons,......I merely mention all this to show how the Malungeons of today are regarded, and to show how I tracked them to Newman’s Ridge in Hancock County.....

HUMBLE 1897

The Blackwater Valley lies between Mulberry and Newman’s Ridges, and is from half a mile to mile wide. Twenty years ago it was still a wilderness, but is now under good cultivation, and divided into small farms upon which are rather poor dwellings and outbuildings. In this valley and along Newman’s Ridge, reaching into Lee County, Virginia, are settled the people called Melungeons. Some have gone into Kentucky, chiefly into Pike County, others are scattered in adjacent territory.

OTIS 1900

These people are called the Malungeons. ................ ......The Malungeons number between 400 and 500. They live on Black Water Creek, in Hancock County, which section they have inhabited for more than 100 years. ................ The records of Hancock County show that the Malungeon ancestors came to Powell's Valley as early as 1789, when they took up lands on the Black Water.

JARVIS 1903

Greasy Rock Creek, a name by which it has ever since been known and called since, and here is the very place where these Melungeons settled, long after this, on Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater. ............these friendly “Indians” live in the mountains of Stony creek, but they have married among the whites until the race has almost become extinct. A few of the half bloods may be found-none darker- but they still retain the name of Collins and Gibson, &c. From here they came to Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater and many of them are here yet....

CONVERSE 1912

The northern end is drained by Blackwater Creek, which winds its way leisurely northeastward through narrow strips of verdant meadow land. Here, along the banks of this sparkling stream and on the top and eastern slope of Newman's Ridge, is the home of the Melungeons.

WILSON 1914

Occasionally the student of ethnology may stumble upon a community that is a puzzle, as, for example, that one occupied by the 'Malungeons' of upper East Tennessee.

MOORE AND FOSTER

So far as is known they were first found in Hancock County on Newman's Ridge, soon after the Revolutionary War. Now they are settled in several counties, although still most numerous in Hancock County.

PLECKER 1942-1930

We have in some of the counties of southwestern Virginia a number of so-called Melungeons who came into that section from Newmans Ridge, Hancock County, Tennessee..............

August 5, 1930
Mr. J.P. Kelly.Trustee of Schools,
Gap,Lee County, Virginia

Dear Sir: office has had a great deal of trouble in reference to the persistence of a group of people living in that section known as "Melungeons", whose families came from Newman's Ridge, Tennessee.

CAMBAIRE 1935

It seems the Melungeons came into Hancock County between 1810 and 1851.

OSBORNE 1947

From what I gathered from Uncle Wash, the Melungeons started coming to Wise and Scott Counties about 1820. These people came in about equal numbers from Kentucky from Newmans’ Ridge and lower end of Lee County. A few came from North Carolina.

WORDEN 1947

Whatever they are—the Malungeons still are on Newman’s Ridge, in Hancock, Rhea and Hawkins counties of Tennessee, and a few across the border in Virginia. Many are scattered by ones or twos miles from the isolated ridge top they occupied for so long.

E. PRICE

The persistent folk tale, however, insists that the Melungeons are unusual racially; it identifies them as a dark-skinned people whose center is on Newman's Ridge in Hancock County. The Newman's Ridge-Blackwater area seems to be the locality where they have the deepest roots.

VINCENT 1961

colony of folks in this end of Tennessee settled along Newman's Ridge, and on Mulberry Creek in what is now Hancock County, and a few miles out from Sneedville.

DAVIS 1963

Trapped in poverty, snubbed by their fair-skinned neighbors, some of them withdrew to the poor land along Snake Hollow, deep in the rattlesnake-infested gorge in the shadow of towering Newman’s Ridge. Some of them settled along the northern end of the valley, at the Virginia line, where Blackwater Creek flows, and some settled on the Ridge.

BERRY 1963

For a century and a half, the prolific Melungeons have migrated in all directions from Newman's Ridge. .... There are fifteen hundred in Lee County, Virginia....Five hundred are in Scott Count, Virginia........A thousand are found in Wise County, where they are known as "Ramps."

GAMBLE

The only true Melungeons left, however, reside in the nearby mountainside areas known as Snake Hollow and Mulberry Gap.

H. PRICE

they occupied Newman's Ridge---rough and steep in places, but offering some table land and numerous hollows. Here they located near springs or creeks.

S. PRICE 1968

But whatever their origin, the group eventually settled in Hancock County, along Newman's Ridge and in settlements known as Blackwater, Snake Hollow and Vardy.

NORDHEIMER 1970

Newman’s Ridge overlooks Sneedville, a poor community of about 700 persons near the Virginia border. In the early 19th century nearly 350 Melungeons settled on the ridge, coming down into the valley only on rare occasions to forage for wild vegetables and sell moonshine whiskey. They lived apart from the whites for generations. The ridge was a hilltop sanctuary against the outside world and its prejudice.

FETTERMAN (Price) 1970

They bore the Melungeon names which appear on Newman's Ridge: Collins, Mullins, Brogan, Goins, Gibson, Bowlin. They were free of the restrictive legislation aimed at slaves and former slaves during the 1700s and 1800s.

YARBROUGH 1972

Those left in Snake Hollow, Blackwater, Vardy and Mulberry - are few in number, Most have left the hills for jobs in cities far and near. And time is catching up with those remaining. In 1931 there were 40 Melungeon families living on Newman's Ridge above their ancestral home.

LYNCH 1973

And the white man forced them high into the Clinch Mountains, principally Newman's Ridge just outside present day Sneedville, Hancock County, Tennessee.

BIBLE 1975

In East Tennessee, they have spilled over into the neighboring counties in an extension of the Hancock County families...... ......... "Melungeon surnames were noted in southwestern Virginia as early as 1820, but the families were not classified until 1870, when the census enumerators in Lee County listed the county and state of birth of each person. Of forty-six families whos names suggest they were Melungeons, thirty had one or more members who had BEEN BORN IN HANCOCK or HAWKINS County. Eight had members born in Scott County, and at least one of these also had been born in HANCOCK COUNTY. One person was born in Letcher County, Kentucky of parents born in HANCOCK and Scott Counties. The adults of a Goins family (one of the few listed as mulatto) were born in Surry and Ashe Counties, North Carolina; their children were born in Knox, HANCOCK and Grainger Counties, Tennessee. This is the best direct evidence available to confirm the relationship between several different groups of Melungeons and the importance of NEWMAN'S RIDGE as a CENTER OF THEIR DISPERSAL, but it is evident that the secondary Melungeon localities were also fed from North Carolina and Virginia

HAUN

Most of the mountain people refer to them as Blackwaters and Ridgemanites.” But even in that long gorge, winding some 20 miles in a half-mile-wide band between Newman’s Ridge and Powell Mountain there are few “pure Melungeons” left today.

WINKLER 2003

The only people who were called Melungeon 100 years ago were those who lived in or near Hancock County, Tennessee--including Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties in southwest Virginia.

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