According to the encyclopedia, there were at least six groups of people referred to as Black Dutch. The terms appeared to refer to anyone of dark skin, hair and eyes. Following are the groups described: 1. MELUNGEONS. A mixed race of dark-skinned races, such as Indian, Negro, Spaniards, and Whites. 2. RAMAPOUGH INDIANS. Mixture of Mulattos and Indians. 3. BLACK GERMANS from the Black Forest area of Germany. They had black hair and dark skins instead of the blond hair and blue eyes of the northern Germans. Supposedly the darker coloring came from an interbreeding with African mercenary soldiers black in the Roman Empire days. (Hitler was a Black Dutch.) 4. GYPSIES. (Not their technical name). 5. DUTCH (DEUTSCH) and BELGIAN JEWS. 6. MULATTOS. Mixture of Negro and white races. There are many web sites explaining Black Dutch. You can find them using your search engine. I know of only one Waldrop documented to have been called "Black Dutch." More about him in the next message. Jan