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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Melungeon

· Me·lun·geon · IPA
01 n. One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of whit…
  1. 1.
    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.