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Northern Catawban Bands; Tutelo, Monacan & Saponi Families
The Melungeons were Monacan & Saponi Families Someone just a few days ago asked me what I knew about Indian mounds in the Carolinas....
vhawkins1952
Sep 9, 202111 min read
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Did the Portuguese Melangeons Kill off the Hopes of the Western Catawba?
Did the Portuguese Melaneons kill off the the Hopes Western Catawba? It’s and interesting and a sad story. About the same time the...
vhawkins1952
Aug 18, 202114 min read
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Gonna Bury the Hatchet in Southwestern Oklahoma’s Beautiful Red Clay
I am Old and Tired – Gonna Bury the Hatchet in Oklahoma’s Red Clay Soil. Further internet research came up with the following --...
vhawkins1952
Aug 16, 20212 min read
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Was There Ever an Age of Magic?
Was There Ever an Age of Magic? Was there ever an age of magic, where Gypsy's and Portuguese Adventurers appear undocumented and...
vhawkins1952
Aug 15, 202114 min read
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Dromgoole 3 -- The Melungeon Tree and Its Four Branches
The Melungeon Tree and Its Four Branches By Will Allen Dromgoole The Arena ; v. 3 (May, 1891), p. 749-751. Somewhere in the eighteenth...
vhawkins1952
Aug 14, 20219 min read
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Dromgoole 2 -- The Melungeons; Mar.1891
“The Malungeons” by Will Allen Dromgoole (1891 article) October 14, 2016Resources for Research “The Malungeons” The Arena, March 1891...
vhawkins1952
Aug 14, 202114 min read
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Dromgoole 1 -- A Strange People; Sep. 1890
“A Strange People” by Will Allen Dromgoole (1890 article) October 14, 2016 Resources for Research “A Strange People” Nashville Sunday...
vhawkins1952
Aug 14, 20215 min read
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Melungeons; My Wayland's & Gibson's; and Excerpts from Dr. Carlson's PhD Dissertation
The Waylands, the Melungeons, and a Saponi Band of the Catawba Nation My research has morphed from a study of the Gist’s to the...
vhawkins1952
Aug 7, 202126 min read
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Melungeons ARE Mixed Catawban -- NOT Mixed Gypsy!
I have been fighting itiotic nonsence about the origins of the people referred to by Will Alan Drumgoole, living ot the...
vhawkins1952
Jul 28, 202128 min read
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How the Saponi Became the Melungeons
This is the best Story About the Origin of the Melungeon Story I have Ever Seen. This is the best origin of the Melungeon Story I have...
vhawkins1952
Jul 4, 202121 min read
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The "Lungeons" of Baxter County, Arkansas
The "Lungeons" of Baxter County, Arkansas From History of Baxter County, Arkansas by Mary Ann Messick Chapter II; Indian Days and Early...
vhawkins1952
Jun 29, 20214 min read
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Minutes of Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church; part 2
MINUTES of the STONY CREEK PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH, Part 2 Book Number 1, ends with July, 1811. Book Number 2, has a few faded pages...
vhawkins1952
Jun 28, 202134 min read
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Minutes of Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church; Part #1
Minutes of Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Part 1 Howdy! http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/scott/church/stonycrk.txt File...
vhawkins1952
Jun 28, 202130 min read
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Melungeons as told by Lewis Jarvis
And transcribed by William Grohse, historian of Hancock County, Tennessee from the Hancock County Times; Sneedville, Tennessee, 17 April...
vhawkins1952
Jun 27, 20215 min read
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The Melungeons are mixed Catawban, NOT mixed Portuguese!
The Melungeons are mixed-Catawban, NOT mixed-Portuguese! I can't format this blog entry right. Curses! Also as you can probably tell, it...
vhawkins1952
Jun 26, 202123 min read
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Flaw in the Melungeon DNA Test -- UPDATE --
Recently I saw an update and I LOVE it!! https://jogg.info/pages/72/files/Estes.htm#_ftnref4. I'd like to thank them for this update....
vhawkins1952
Jun 24, 20215 min read
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