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Saponi and Cheraw timeline

Posted by: Kevin Mullins (ID *****0358) Date: March 03, 2007 at 17:28:20

In Reply to: Gleanings from my old file cabinet by kevin mullins of 20585

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Saponi abstracts from dissertation

From Patricia Baldwin, posted on Melungeon-L email list ca 1998. Apparently this was from a document that was formatted differently, and I had to clean up a little

“clutter”. Some parts were a little confusing, especially when it came to matching up the sources, but it’s still worth checking out. I’m not sure if the address listed below is operable today.

Does anyone know what happened to Patty Baldwin? She had an old sash that was an heirloom in her family, and she was told that it looked like a sash fom a soldier of the Lavant, ca 1500 or 1600s.

This ‘document’ and citation(s) was in the Fall issue of ‘Old Floyd County ( KY ) Families’, Vol. 3, No. 1

Old Floyd Co. KY Families

3 Clark Branch

Harold , KY

41635-9601

INDIAN/MELUNGEON ABSTRACTS

The following abstracts are from four calendars of documents compiled for a dissertation tentatively entitled

“Who Are Your People: Indian-Pioneer Histories From The Southern Appalachians And Related Tribes, Bands, And Families, 1660 To 1997” (Department Of Anthropology,

Michigan State University).

The calendars are titled:

“Eastern KY Pioneer-Indian 1740 To The Present”;

“Cherokee Diaspora 1740 To The Present”;

“Southern Tribes: Saponi, Tutalo, Sara, etc. 1600 To The Present”;

and “Melungeon Dialogue 1730 To The Present”.

For anyone wanting more information on the Indian-Pioneer families these documents mention

contact:

Richard Allen Carlson., Jr.

328 Regent St.

Lansing, MI 48912.

Hancock County Times; [HCT & IP] . April 17, 1903. Article by the Hon.

Lewis M. Jarvis (lawyer of Sneedville, b. in Scott Co. 1829). States all that has been

written on Melungeons is erroneous, and are derisively dubbed “Melungeons” by

locals. States they were not here when Boone entered country in 1761; doings of the long

hunters; Greasy Rock a rendezvous point for traders – Sneedville; Greasy Rock first

settled by Melungeons, and Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater later.

In 1795 or 1804 those called Melungeons settled area with land grants and muniments of title and settled same

time as the whites did.

Names were Vardy, Ben, & Solomon Collins, Shepherd Gibson,

“Paul Bunch and the Goodmans, chiefs and the rest of them.”

They had already lost their language and spoke English very well. “They were originally friendly

Indians who came with the whites… from the Cumberland County and New River, VA … some

stopped on Stoney Creek, Scott County [and other points along the Blue Ridge]… The white

emigrants with the friendly Indians erected a fort on the bank of the river…Ft.

Blackmore, and here yet many of these friendly ‘Indians’ lived in the Mountains of Stoney

Creek … A few half-bloods may be found … from here they came to Newman’s Ridge and

Blackwater”; amalgamation with whites; half-bloods, quarter-bloods, & the “old

pure bloods”; some in War of 1812: James Collins, John & Mike Bowlin, and some others

not remembered”; those who quite full blooded. Were like white people, good & bad

citizens, some among best property owners in county, word is bond, “they have left

records which show these facts.”

Amelia County Courthouse, VA – Deed Book 1; (ASV,V.37:42-Holland, C.G.,

“A Saponi Note”). November 8, 1737.

Deed from Jn. Taylor of Surry Co. to Alex. Bruce of Amelia Co. for 300 acres,

“…beginning at a white oak above the Sappon Indians cabins, thence…near a branch

of Winningham Creek, site south of Winningham Creek, West of State Route 617 -sketch MAP

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