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Melungeon
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Melungeon'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/melungeon.html. 1828.