Re: Name calling "for whatever reason"?
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Name calling "for whatever reason"?
Larry Keels 2/24/07
Kevin
If Larry was at all familiar with Melungeon research he would know that it was Jarvis who used the words 'dubbed Melungeons' -- and that he actually used the words 'derisively dubbed' --
But that was also in 1903 --it doesn't prove anything as to the original meaning.No one knows what it meant in 1813.Larry has a lot to learn when he reads the 'other half' of the published material on Melungeons.
This is what Jarvis actually said;
“They have been derisively dubbed with the name Melungeon by the local white people who lived here among them. The Melungeons were the friendly Indians who came with the whites around 1795, they came from the Cumberland and the New River stopping at various points west of Blue Ridge some stopped on Stony Creek, where Stony Creek empties into the Clinch River.” He names the following Vardy Collins, Shepard Gibson Benjamin Collins, Solomon Collins, Paul Bunch and the Goodman chiefs, and the rest of them settled here in 1804 he also names these who were in the war of 1812-14, James Collins, John Bolin and Mike Bolin who were quite full blooded and some others not remembered.”
So they were 'derisively dubbed' Melungeons because they were 'friendly Indians' possibly from 'Malungin Creek'
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