Melungeon HomePage:The infamous Plecker "ATTACHMENT"
Melungeon HomePage:The infamous Plecker "ATTACHMENT": "NOTE: W.A. Plecker, acting as Virginia's first Registrar of Vital Statistics, was determined to 'mark' all Melungeons as not-white. Below is a transcribed copy of the certificate that Plecker had affixed to all 'suspect' birth, death, and marriage certificates in Virginia. I have also made a photo-image:
Certificate, .jpeg-file, 154K
WARNING -- To be attached to the backs of birth or death certificates of those believed to be incorrectly recorded as to color or race.
Howe in his History of Virginia, 1845, Pages 349-350 says of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Indians of King William County: 'Their Indian character is nearly extinct by intermixture with the whites and negroes.'
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volume 14, Pages 460 and 464, says of Chickahominy Indians, 'No pure bloods left, considerable negro admixture,' and of the Pamunkeys, 'All mixed-bloods; some negro mixture.'
The Handbook of American Indians (Bulletin 30), Bureau of American Ethnology, under the heading 'Croatan Indians,' says: 'The theory of descent from the colony may be regarded as baseless, but the name itself serves as a convenient label for a people who combine in themselves the blood of thc wasted native tribes, the early colonists or forest rovers, the runaway slaves or other negroes, and probably also of stray seamen of the Latin races from coasting vessels in the West Indian or Brazilian trade.
Across the line in South Carolina are found a people, evidently of similar origin, designated-'Redbones.' In portions of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are found the so-called 'Melungeons' (probably from French melange, 'mixed') or 'Portuguese ' apparently an offshoot from C"
Certificate, .jpeg-file, 154K
WARNING -- To be attached to the backs of birth or death certificates of those believed to be incorrectly recorded as to color or race.
Howe in his History of Virginia, 1845, Pages 349-350 says of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Indians of King William County: 'Their Indian character is nearly extinct by intermixture with the whites and negroes.'
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volume 14, Pages 460 and 464, says of Chickahominy Indians, 'No pure bloods left, considerable negro admixture,' and of the Pamunkeys, 'All mixed-bloods; some negro mixture.'
The Handbook of American Indians (Bulletin 30), Bureau of American Ethnology, under the heading 'Croatan Indians,' says: 'The theory of descent from the colony may be regarded as baseless, but the name itself serves as a convenient label for a people who combine in themselves the blood of thc wasted native tribes, the early colonists or forest rovers, the runaway slaves or other negroes, and probably also of stray seamen of the Latin races from coasting vessels in the West Indian or Brazilian trade.
Across the line in South Carolina are found a people, evidently of similar origin, designated-'Redbones.' In portions of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are found the so-called 'Melungeons' (probably from French melange, 'mixed') or 'Portuguese ' apparently an offshoot from C"
posted by Helen Campbell @ 2:44 PM
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