The following is from NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH-GENEALOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY by Helen F. M. Leary Helen Leary is a well known N.C. Scholar! The following came from page 10. "During the early nineteenth century, Native Americans were described by federal census takers as free persons of color, mulattos, or whites simply because no correct racial category was included in the government's instructions. Consequently, genealogist searching for their minority or mixed-blood ancestors and local historians interested in ethnic representation within the community often must depend on present-day descendants' oral traditions, which are not primary sources but are nevertheless essential to these kinds of investigations". Noted by "The Miller Book" " during most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North Carolina, Indians were entered in all the public records as mulattos. Negroes and slaves, whites, and mulattos were all listed separately in records of this time". 1984 Webster's definition Mulatto: 1: the-first generation offspring of a Negro and a White 2: a person of mixed Caucasian and Negro ancestry.