From being on several lists in the past couple of months, Indians intermarried both black and white. When the persecution was bad, many who were mixed white blood "passed" for white and blended into the neighborhood. Much of the time the records only contained the choices of black, white, mulatto, free persons of color. Indians didn't count and were thrown into the other designations. For a discussion of racial designations of Indians and an interesting genealogy/archaeology report, "Delaware's Invisible Indians" see http://home.dmv.com/~eheite/index.html Marge Green JEPOISSON@aol.com wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Yesterday I was reading in Whitelaw's Virginia's Eastern Shore, published > 1951. He said about Native Americans in the area that "Their blood remains > only as a mixture with that of the Negro race." >