{"id":23671,"date":"2012-06-07T20:15:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23671"},"modified":"2012-06-07T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:20:58","slug":"the-origin-of-the-van-guilders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23671","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Van Guilders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/historysfaces.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/origin-of-van-guilders.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Origin of the Van Guilders<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historysfaces.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">History&#8217;s Faces<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:debra.winchell@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Winchell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently the Associated Press published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23379\" target=\"_blank\">article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia&#8217;s Melungeons<\/a>. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied to about 200 communities in the eastern U.S. \u2014 from New York to Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were the Montauks, the Mantinecocks, Van Guilders, the Clappers, the Shinnecocks and others in New York. Pennsylvania had the Pools; North Carolina the Lumbees, Waccamaws and Haliwas and South Carolina the Redbones, Buckheads, Yellowhammers, Creels and others. In Louisiana, which somewhat resembled a Latin American nation with its racial mixing, there were Creoles of the Cane River region and the Redbones of western Louisiana, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of researching the Van Guilders for over fifteen years, I know that the Van Gilders\/Van Guilders from western Massachusetts, upstate New York and Vermont are <em>not<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=118\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeon<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The founder of the family was Jan Van Gelder, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahican\" target=\"_blank\">Mohican<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wappinger\" target=\"_blank\">Wappinger<\/a> man who married the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Palatines\" target=\"_blank\">German Palatine<\/a> woman Anna Maria Koerner in Kingston, New York, in 1719.\u00a0 They lived in what is now present day <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire County<\/a> on the west bank of the Green River, southwest of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Barrington,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Great Barrington<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/historysfaces.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/origin-of-van-guilders.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Origin of the Van Guilders History&#8217;s Faces 2012-05-25 Debra Winchell Recently the Associated Press published an article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia&#8217;s Melungeons. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote: In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,5113,20],"tags":[11040,11041,10889,11042],"class_list":["post-23671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-debra-winchell","tag-historys-faces","tag-travis-loller","tag-van-guilders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}