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Joanne said;
''I believe that Elizabeth Hirschman's theory was they were Crypto Jews, Brent Kennedy's theory was they were Turkish sailors, Tim Hashaw's theory was they were the African slaves from 1619, I think Richard Carlson's theory is they were Native Americans -- I don't subscribe to any of these theories -- and I really don't think I have published my own theory -- If I have could you post it here and refresh my memory''
Hirschman did not 'create the Jewish theory' and I seriously doubt Richard Carlson is is the first to say they were Native Americans. And I am flabbergasted that Tim Hashaw would deny he subscribed to the Melungeon ancestors were Africans on the ship in 1619 whoever created the theory.
From: Wildwestgifts4u@aol.com
Subject: Origin of the Melungeons - 1619, Part 1
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:52:33 EDT
1619 - the Black Mayflower and the Origin of the Melungeons
by Tim Hashaw,
all rights retained by author
The following series of articles describe a chain of events that occurred in
the year 1619 that may hold a key to some of the questions of Melungeon
origins.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/melungeon/2004-09/1096278753
From: Wildwestgifts4u@aol.com
Subject: Origin of the Melungeons - 1619, Part 2
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:26:07 EDT
The following series of articles are excerpted from my research on the
delivery of Africans to Virginia by two pirate ships in August of 1619. These were
the very first Africans to arrive in British North America, one year before
the Mayflower. This story has never been told in full detail. Fortunately I
had the direct imput of several scholars, respected in their fields.
Evidence indicates that Margaret Cornish and John Geaween (Gowen) were two of
the Africans the pirates had taken from a Portuguese slaver in the Bay of
Campeche in July, a few weeks before the pirates arrived in Virginia. John and
Margaret are believed to be the earliest ancestors of the Gowen/ Goins families
of color, including the Goins/Goens etc of the Melungeons.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/melungeon/2004-09/1096338367
Answer:
Yes, I have found free persons of color who arrived in 1619 in Virginia as
ancestors of Melungeons who lived in identifiable Melungeon communities.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/melungeon/2003-03/1046744543
You might want to check out the link below concerning African Jews and DNA.
In addition I have heard that the nation of Ghana had 8 Jewish kings before
the colonial era. The African ancestry of the Melungeons beginning as early
as 1619 came mostly from Angola and historic Kongo, but there were also many
Ghana arrivals in America in the late 17th century. Tim Hashaw
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/melungeon/2002-04/1018581821
Melungeon ancestors were among those Africans delivered to Virginia in August 1619. This recent research makes some traditional historical scholarship describing the founding of America, highly questionable. The arrival of the Africans of 1619 has never been credited for bringing about the arrival of the Mayflower several months later. Melungeon genealogy is responsible for revealing this important historical
connection.
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One misconception over Melungeon origins comes from confusion over the status of these African-Americans who, along with whites and Indians, gave birth to this mixed community. Modern scholars mistakenly assume that the African heritage of Melungeons derives from the offspring of white plantation owners and black female chattel slaves in the years 1780 to 1820.
Wrong on two counts. In fact:
1. The very first black ancestors of Melungeons appeared in tidewater Virginia, not in the 18th century, but in 1619.
http://www.eclectica.org/v5n3/hashaw.html
Hashaw's genealogical burrowing resulted in The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom in Jamestown (Carroll & Graf, 329 pp. $26.95). In it the one-time Houston radio reporter tells for the first time the story of roughly 30 slaves transported from Angola to Jamestown in 1619. Two of them, he's convinced, are among his own ancestors
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Melungeon/2007-03/1174348400
From the founding of America, through the American Revolution, the Civil War and World War II, the author documents the histories of several related mixed communities that began in Virginia in 1619
http://www.appalachianbookco.com/si/86.html
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