{"id":61411,"date":"2021-09-01T00:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61411"},"modified":"2021-09-01T01:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:12:54","slug":"thomas-collins-lost-melungeon-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61411","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Alicia M. Prater, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n2020-09-03<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe Goins\u2019, a Melungeon<\/a> family in Graysville, Tennessee<\/a>, in the 1920s. Source<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thomas Collins was born about 1785, presumably in Ashe, North Carolina<\/a>. He was a Melungeon and noted as \u201cFree Colored Person\u201d (FCP) on the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses. Thomas married Nancy Williams, who was also denoted as a FCP, around 1800. They moved with their grown children to Perry Co., Kentucky<\/a>, from Ashe, North Carolina, about 1835. Thomas was then denoted as \u201cFree White Person\u201d on the 1840 census, and the family has been White ever since.<\/p>\n

Melungeons<\/a>: The \u201cfree colored people\u201d of Appalachia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The word \u201cMelungeon\u201d started as a racial slur but came to denote the insular communities of darker skinned Baptists, Portuguese, African, Native American, and possibly Romani<\/a> or Jewish settlers in the Appalachian Mountains<\/a> of Tennessee<\/a>, Virginia<\/a>, and North Carolina<\/a> before the Revolutionary War<\/a>. Today, it is considered to refer to a tri-racial isolate<\/a> from the Southeastern United States<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots Alicia M. Prater, Ph.D. 2020-09-03 The Goins\u2019, a Melungeon family in Graysville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Source Thomas Collins was born about 1785, presumably in Ashe, North Carolina. He was a Melungeon and noted as \u201cFree Colored Person\u201d (FCP) on the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses. Thomas married Nancy Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,5113,20],"tags":[31844,18537,211,31845,31843],"class_list":["post-61411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-alicia-m-prater","tag-medium","tag-melungeons","tag-nancy-williams","tag-thomas-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61411","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=61411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61416,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61411\/revisions\/61416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}