Thanks, Marge, for this really very interesting, well done paper or link. Don't know yet where my West Virginia Cisco, Francisco, Sisco line came from, but found this discussion fascinating. Also noted the Muntz/Munce surname and others like Butcher that I have seen on other lists.... Does anyone know about the Native and Swedish population of Cecil County, Maryland? Thanks, Brenda Margaret Green wrote: > > 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." > > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/