In a message dated 2/7/2003 8:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, danny@mounet.com writes: > The URL for the website with the historical timeline is: > http://www.mounet.com/~echo/ppp.htm > The CD described there has a much more extensive one, plus stories, primary > documents, pictures, etc., if you want to know more. > > Hope this helps. > > Danny > Danny, If you are the author of this page can you tell me what your source is for the Melungeon references below. 1586 - Sir Francis Drake sets off several hundred Turkish and other Muslim sailors (on Roanoke Island.) that he had freed from the jails of the Spanish settlement at Cartegena in the Caribean) ( The original Melungeons) 1587 - The English over-run the Spanish settlement of Santa Elena (Beaufort, S.Car.) Many Iberian settlers (Portuguese and Spanish) are abandoned or otherwise cut off and left to survive in the wilderness. ( The second major source of Melungeons) Peace :-) Joanne Pezzullo <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html">http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/front.html</A>