[kimmcarthur]

Melungeons are:

Primarily the Saponi, and possibly the Meherrin, Tuscarora, and Nottoway were the original tribes. Later mixing occurred in the early-to-mid-1700s and perhaps a bit earlier with some of Virginia’s so-called “lost” Algonquian-speaking tribes. Blending probably first occurred at Fort Christanna in modern Brunswick County, Virginia. Some Melungeons are thought to have later married into families who had Cherokee ancestry.

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