Melungeon Surnames
Melungeon=Portuguese (Caucasian)/Amerindian hybrid, probably first
appearing in the New World 50 years before the arrival of the English at
Jamestown, VA.
According to journals recorded by the first exployers sent out of Jamestown to explore the lands to the south the men came upon a group of people living among friendly Indians in log cabins and speaking a broken Elizabethan English. The people wore black clothing and the men had long beards. At a certain time of the day a bell would toll and the people would stop whatever they were doing and bough in prayer. These people identified themselves as Portagee. (source: Brent Kennedy said he found the info in the archives of NC)
NOTE: If this is correct, and I believe it was, then the people that landed at Jamestown was not the first settlers to reach the colonies as the textbooks so state.
ADAMS ADKINS ALLEN ALLMOND ASHWORTH *
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BENNETT BERRY BEVERLY
BIGGS BOLEN BOLLING BOLTON BOONE BOWLIN
BOWLING BOWMAN BRADBY BRANHAM BRAVBOY
BRIGER/BRIDGER BROGAN BROOKS
BROWN BUNCH BULLION BURTON BUTLER BUTTERS
BUXTON BYRD *
CAMPBELL CARRICO CARTER CASTEEL CAUDILL CHAPMAN
CHAVIS CLARK CLOUD COAL
COFFEY COLE COLEMAN COLES COLLEY COLLIER COLLINS
COLLINSWORTH COLYER
COOPER CORMAN COUNTS COX COXE CRIEL CROSTON
CROW CUMBA CUMBO CUMBOW
CURRY CUSTALOW *
DALTON DARE DAVIS DENHAM DENNIS DIAL DOOLEY
DORTON DOYLE DRIGGERS DULA
DYE DYESS *
ELY EPPS EVANS *
FIELDS FREEMAN FRENCH *
GALLAGHER GANN GARLAND GIBSON GIPSON GOINS
GOINGS GORVENS GOWAN GOWEN
GRAHAM GREEN(E) GWINN *
HALL HAMMON(D) HARMON HARRIS HARVIE HARVEY
HAWKES HENDRICKS HENDRIX
HILL HILLMAN HOGGE HOLMES HOPKINS HOWE
HYATT *
JACKSON JAMES JOHNSON JONES *
KEITH(E) KENNEDY KISER *
LANGSTON LASIE LAWSON LOCKLEAR LOPES LOWRY LUCAS
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MADDOX MAGGARD MAJOR MALE MALONE(Y) MARSH
MARTIN MAYLE MINARD MINER
MINOR MIZER MOORE MORLEY MOSELY
MOZINGO MULLINS *
NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL NORRIS *
ORR OSBORN OSBORNE OXENDINE *
PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS PHIPPS
PRINDER POLLY POWELL
POWERS PRITCHARD PRUITT *
RAMEY RASNICK REAVES REVELS REEVES RICE
RICHARDSON RIDDLE RIVERS
ROBERSON ROBERTSON ROBINSON RUSSELL *
SAMMONS SAMPSON SAWYER SCOTT SEXTON SHAVIS
SHEPHARD SHEPHERD SHORT
SHORTT SIZEMORE SMILING SMITH STALLARD STANLEY
STEEL STEVENS STEWART
STROTHER SWEATT SWETT SWINDALL *
TALLY TACKETT TAYLOR THOMPSON TIPTON TOLLIVER
TUPPANCE TURNER *
VANOVER VICARS VICCARS VICKERS *
WARE WATTS WEAVER WHITE WHITED WILKINS WILLIAMS
WILLIAMSON WILLIS WILSON
WISBY WISE WOOD WRIGHT WYATT WYNN
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