I am inclined to agree with you to a degree. I believe the folks from the lost colony migerated up the coastline and inland to mix with the Colonial tribes . I am not ruling out the mixture of the runaway slaves either. I firmly believe there is a mixture in my family of Indian/White/Black. Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rdvsr@aol.com> To: <VAWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [VAWISE] Mixed bloodlines (was Early Wise County) > Some maintain that there is really no "Portugese" to them, but that they were > a mixture of escaped slaves, black and Indian and whites who lived in the > mountains to escape detection. No one has settled the question for certain. > These people often called themselves "black dutch" or "black Irish", etc. > etc. and stayed in very remote mountain area. >