< . . . isn't the term "Native American" of rather recent origin? I wonder what term would have been used at the time?> In Somerset County in 1750, as evidenced by the 1750 tax list, Monie Hundred, Native Americans were called "Indian." The family which had the Indian designation was Newman. Henry Newman was half and his son Isaac was one quarter. Henry's father was English; the mother an Annemessex Indian (another record calls her this, not me.) I know several folks who are Newman descendants and the Indian ancestry did not come down in oral family history. Only in that one tax list is the designation made. I have seen some women taxed which tells me they were not English and I also know descendants of them who have no oral tradition of the ancestor being not English. It just depended on who the constable was and what he knew. Same with census when that was instituted. Some years folks were called mulatto and other years white. No Indian designation that I have seen in Somerset. Becky ________________________________