Thank you, Margaret, for asking about my Melungeon and Indian ancestors. I cannot tell you much which is why I listen to the list. I do know there were many Indian/White laisons/marriages in Upper East TN very early. I suspect this is part of the difficulty in tracking several different families I have run into. There were many Indian families in upper East TN in the mid/late 1700's. Most of the whites thought they were in VA and obviously weren't. I had a white male (Nathan Hawkins) who had traveled down from Baltimore Maryland after 1768, when he last appears on any document in Baltimore, and 1774, when he first is listed on Militia lists for Fincastle Co VA. He was in Dunmore's War. His son, Matthew, whom I suspect married an Indian woman signed the Watauga Petition. Matthew is listed in Wilkes Co NC in the 1780's and in the 1790's is in Greeneville SC. 1801 Matthew is listed as a first inhabitant of Anderson Co TN and was in Knox, previously. There was a whole group of people who were in Upper East TN, North of Holston, Watauga, etc... who went down to Greeneville SC and then about 1799 came back up together around Anderson Co. Anderson was cut out of Knox. Matthew and his son, Aaron, went out to the Yellow Banks (Owensborough KY) in 1817/1818 where Aaron stayed. Matthew, eventually, went on to Indiana and died on Honey Creek Prairie ca 1824. He was headed for Fountain County, IN where Matthew Maddox died ca 1834 and had lent a son of Matthew Hawkins money to buy land there. Aaron and his Melungeon/Indian wife, Elizabeth A. Madox, had a son, James Dixon Hawkins, who went to Mexico. He became a surgeon and Texas Ranger. He married a Mexican woman and lived in Candela, Coahuila his entire life. James Dixon's sister, Mahala, married a Cherokee gentleman, James McCray in Ohio Co KY 1844. Many Cherokee and Melungeon people went to the area around the Sabine and Naganoches (sp) area of Texas because they were "safe" there. Remember the Bowl went to Mexico. So did Sequoia. We were everywhere and nowhere. Remember the Cherokee Chief, Little Carpenter, was Algonquin. (Note: The abovementioned, Matthew Maddox had a wife, Dicy Guinn who appears to have been Indian. After his death, she left and went to Fort Smith, Arkansas.) Mahala and James are dead mysteriously and their children become servants for the neighbors "on or before 13 Feb 1863", from court documents. One neighbor is murdered for taking in the child/young woman... and is tried for manslaughter... I have traced the Hawkins family well back into Maryland. They were of Scot origin. Their immigrant came onto this continent with the Winthrop Fleet 1630 (founded Salem and then Boston, because it was a better harbor) and into Anne Arundel Co MD 1651. He was a mariner. He was easy to track because he kept going into court and moaning that the people he was hauling freight for weren't going to pay him. His sons remained in Maryland in the Baltimore/Anne Arundel Co vacinity. It is the next generation that started migrating down through VA into Upper East TN, NC and such. Of all the Maddox/Maddux/Madox/Maddocks etc... I have looked at, I have not seen any that even remotely look like they would be suspects for my Elizabeth's family. I haven't a clue where she may have been to have married Aaron Hawkins in Anderson Co TN in 1814. I haven't a marriage license only their bible. I suspect many records are missing and/or destroyed from the Civil War. I know there must be other people who are of her family somewhere. I just keep my ear to the ground, listening. Thanks for the interest, Jeanne