http://www.historical-melungeons.com/valcollins.html
http://shaybo-therisingtide.blogspot.com/2011/05/descendants-of-valentine-collins.html
1. VALENTINE1 COLLINS1 was born 1769 in Wilkes, NC, USA1. He married DICEY.
Children of VALENTINE COLLINS and DICEY are:
2. i. OBEDIAH2 COLLINS, b. 1804; d. 1839, Magoffin, Kentucky, USA.
3. ii. JOSHUA COLLINS, b. 1805, Hawkins County, Tennessee; d. February 01, 1854, Johnson County, Kentucky.
4. iii. DAVID COLLINS, b. 1807, Kentucky.
As you can see above..Valentine was only in Hawkins county, Tenn 2 years at this time.
"The 1810 Hawkins County Tax list for Puncheon Camp Valley included; Benjamin Collins, Vardemon Collins, James Collins, Henry Collins, Jordan Gibson, Obedah Goodman, Jordan Goodman, John Fields, Yearby Gibson, Shepard Gibson, Charles Gibson, Tiry Gibson, Royal Gibson, Valentine Collins, and Jesse Gibson.
1811: State of Tennessee, Hawkins County vs Valentine Collins, Benjamin Collins, Jordan Gibson and Charles Gibson on a plea of debt by merchant John M. Preston May 1, 1811-Then on the 14th day of June 1811 they were summons to Rogersville to pay
John M. Preston eight pounds and thirteen shillings on beef cattle by the first day of August next. Valentine Collins owed 2 pounds 15 shillings, Benjamin Collins 1 pound 18 shillings, Jordan Gibson 1 pound 16 shillings and Charles Gibson 2 pound, 4 shillings totaling $8 pounds, 13 shillings. (Hawkins County Loose Records.)
1812: Delinquent tax list in Claiborne County 1812 "Thomas Gibson, Sherod Gibson and Valentine Collins". Appears like they moved there from Hawkins and then moved from Claiborne owing taxes . (Tennessee State Library & Archives)Tennessee
24 April 1816--- by Tenn. Grant No, 3770 Absalom Looney received 150 acres; also 44 acres on north side of Clinch River on Newman Ridge on the waters of Panther Creek including the place where Valentine Collins formerly lived. There were ten Collins families on the 1820 census of Floyd County, KY. Valentine,
Bradley, and Meredith were the only Collins’ listed as FPC. "
http://www.jgoins.com/valentine_collins_timeline.htm
Again you do not see Melungeon used for Valentine Collins family. Then from 1810-1812 Valentine is back in Tennesse...but no record of Valentine Collins back in Tennessee after 1812. There is no marriages of Valentine Collins family to any recorded Melungeon families. Now if you look on the Melungeon DNA project site you
will clearly see Valentine Collins was no relation to Vardy Collins.
11280 Valentine Collins Unknown Origin E1b1a8a
246966 Vardemon Collins b.1764 and d. 1850 United States R1b1a2
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/coremelungeon/default.aspx?section=yresults
Then if you go to Jack Goins...who told newspapers recently that he was a Melungeon...yet if you go to his own website he says this about his family "Hopefully locating and indexing the Hawkins County records 1795-1850 will answer some of these questions and I can remove this ‘maybe Melungeon’ label from my Goins
family. " http://www.jgoins.com/maybe_melungeon.htm
So why was Jack Goins' family DNA put in this project if he states he has no proof his Family even was Melungeons? He claims he spent 40 years doing research..surely in 40 years he could have found some proof....so 40 years and no proof found...yet
he still included his families' DNA in this project to say who the Melungeons was.
www.historical-melungeons.com• In 1800 Valentine Collins is living in Morgan Twp., Ashe County, North Carolina. Vardery, Thomas and Ambrose Collins also. All listed as FPC- Joseph Newman Now if you look closer at Jack Goins' website at the link above...you will find this, " Sneedville Attorney Lewis Jarvis names several Melungeons: Vardy Collins, Shepard Gibson, Benjamin Collins, Solomon Collins, Paul Bunch and the Goodman chiefs. Jarvis later names James Collins, John Bolin and Mike Bolin and some
others not remembered."
So now we go back to the DNA results:
87771 Vardy Collins b 1764 Unknown Origin R1a1a
87768 Shepherd Gibson d. 1842 Hawkins Co. TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2
117395 Benjamin Collins, 1800, Hancock Co. Tn. Unknown Origin E1b1a
87510 Benjamin Collins United States R1b1a2
239224 Marvel- Benjamin Collins Unknown Origin E1b1a
Which Ben Collins was the Melungeon?
210660 Obadiah Goodman 1770-1839 KY and TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2
154495 Alfred Goodman, 1828-1898 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
There is only two Goodman's in the project
247883 Samuel Bunch, Hancock County, TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2a1a1b4
95039 Elza Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
83214 Lorenzo Dow Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
260393 Solomon Bunch, b. 1783 and d. 1870 Unknown Origin E1b1a
17113 John Bunch, born about 1630, New Kent, VA Unknown Origin E1b1a8a
N7586 Henry Bunch, Bertie Co., NC Unknown Origin E1b1a8a
Alot of Bunches there....defiently two different Bunch families completely unrelated to each other...so which one was Paul Bunch's family that was named Melungeon? We know 1630 is too early, we know bertie county is near the North Carolina coast..We know Samuel Bunch was living in Hancock county, Tenn. So I guess it is safe to assume the Hancock county Bunch family is the one mentioned by Sneedville Attorney since Sneedville is in Hancock county, Tenn.B2319 James Collins , b. 1773 and d. 1860 United States E1b1b1
Is this the James called a Melungeon?
"Some of them went into the War of 1812-1914 whose names are here given; James Collins, John Bolin and Mike Bolin and some others not remembered;" http://historical-melungeons.blogspot.com/p/lewis-jarvis-article.html
This James would of been 39 in 1812.
"James Collins 1773-1860 married Lexy Gibson (?) about 1803; Bill Groshe speculated she was a Gibson. James Collins is on the Lee County Tax lists 1804-1813 along with an old Martin Collins. The 1830 census of Hawkins County, TN., list James Collins
free colored household as follows: James Collins two males under 10, one male 10-24 and James was between age 55-100. Females: one under 10, one female 10-24 possibly Matilda, and one female 36-55 was wife Lexy. James Collins is named by Sneedville
Attorney Lewis M. Jarvis in his 1903 interview in the Sneedville Times as an old purebred Indian, who had fought in the war of 1812. (1994 Hancock CO, Tennessee And It’s people Volume 11.) " http://www.saponitown.com/brenda-collins-dillon/buck-gibson.htm
125415 William Bolin, b.cir 1813, d.cir 1882 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
200122 Benjamin Bolling or Boling United States R1b1a2
There is only two Bollins in the DNA project so I guess these are for the Bollin family mentioned.
Now going back to the Bunch family since there is 3 that appears to be unrelated to the Hancock county Bunch family yet was put in the DNA project. "Solomon Bunch bn 1783 VA & Wife Nancy bn 1783 N.C. Solomons Father: Micajah BUNCH b: Abt 1770 in Bertie, , NC Mother: Lavinia HOLDER b: Bef 1774 in Bertie, , NC
Children
1 F Sally Sarah BUNCH
Born: 1810
2 M Craven BUNCH
Born: 15 Apr 1815
3 M Jesse BUNCH
Born: 15 Apr 1815
4 M Gabriel BUNCH
Born: 1820
5 M Joel G. BUNCH
Born: 1822
6 M George Washington BUNCH Sr.
Born: 1828 - Whitley County, KY
Died: 26 Apr 1885 - Whitley County, KY
Buried: - 5 Miles E Of Williamsburg, Whitley County, KY
Spouse1: Mary Ann BOLEN
Marr: abt 1848 or 1849
Spouse2: Sarah Ann RAINS
Marr: 5 Oct 1856"
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOWLIN/2005-12/1133592568
"Craven Bunch was a son of Solomon's; Craven was a twin to Jesse and they were born, I believe in 1815. Craven settled in the Southwestern part of KY around the Adair County, Cumberland County area. Father Solomon, although supposedly born in
VA or NC (last seen in VA about 1801), arrived in Knox County,KY (the part which later became Whitley) in the very early 1800s (on the Knox Co. 1810 census) and it is assumed that he died, I think, sometime in the 1870s, possibly in the Dal area or Gatliff area of Whitley County."
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KYRUSSEL/2007-10/1191350205
historical-melungeons.blogspot.com The Historical Melungeons Blog will publish news of current events, historica...See More - Joseph Newman Children of Solomon Bunch and Nancy ??? are:
i. Burton Bunch, born 1803; died Unknown; married Mary
"Polly" ???; died Unknown.
46 ii. Jesse Bunch, born Abt. 1815 in Kentucky; died 1900
in Mud Creek, Whitley County, Kentucky; married Martha Ann Rains November 11, 1837 in Whitley County, Kentucky.
iii. Craven Bunch, born 1816; died Unknown; married Mary
???; born 1822; died Unknown.
Notes for Craven Bunch:
Listed in 1850 census of Whitley County as "Craig" Bunch with wife & family
iv. George W. Bunch, born 18201; died 18851; married
(1) Mary Ann Bowlin; died Unknown; married (2) Sarah Ann Rains October 05, 1856 in Campbell County, Tennessee; born 1840; died 1888.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/u/Tom-Housley/GENE5-0011.html
As we can see Solomon Bunch who was added to the Melungeon DNA project was Never a part of Hancock county, Tenn. Was never called a Melungeon. DNA shows Solomon and the other Bertie county, NC Bunches was totally unrelated to the Bunch family of Sneedville, Tennessee. So why was these 3 Bunch families used in a DNA project for Melungeons?
"These two, Vardy Collins and Buck Gibson, were the had and source of the Melungeons in Tennessee. Old Benjamin Collins, one of the pioneers, was older than Vardy, but came to Tennessee a trifle later. He had quite a large family of children, among them Edmond, Mileyton, Marler, Harry, Andrew, Zeke, Jordon. From
Jordan Collins descended Calloway Collins who is still living today and from whom I obtained some valuable information. Benjamin Collins was known as old Ben, and became the head of the Ben's tribe. Old Solomon Collins was the head of Sol's tribe. The English branch began with the MULLINS tribe, a very powerful tribe, Old Jim Mullins, the father of the branch, was an Englishman. The African branch was introduced by one Goins who emigrated from North Carolina after the formation of the state of Tenn. Goins was a Negro, and did not settle upon the Ridge, but lower down the Big Sycamore Creek in Powell's Valley. He took a Melungeon woman for his wife (took up with her),and reared a family or tribe. The Goins family may be easily recognized by their kinky hair ,flat nose and foot, thick lips, and a complexion totally unlike the Collins and Mullins tribes. The Portuguese branch was for a long time a riddle, the existence of it being stoutly denied. It has at last,
however, been traced to one "Denham", a Portuguese who married a Collins woman. "
http://www.historical-melungeons.com/meltree.html
We already covered Vardy Collins and Shep Gibson. We found 3 Ben Collins in the project. there was no Solomon Collins in the project. So here is the other's DNA from the project.
69729 David Denham, b. 1754, Louisa County, VA. Unknown Origin I1
87373 Irish Jim Mullins of Hawkins Co. TN, b. c. 1780 Unknown Origin
R1b1a2
72301 George Washington Goins Unknown Origin A
44230 Joeseph Goins b 1766 d 1859 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
67719 Thomas Goin born Abt.1750 VA Unknown Origin E1b1a
40479 John Going b. c. 1730, Fairfax Co., VA Unknown Origin E1b1a
87784 `levy going born 1796 in georgia Unknown Origin E1b1a
There was only one Denham in the project so we can assume that is for the Denham family mentioned.There is defiently 3 different Goins families here. One is from Georgia and I have never seen Georgia as a original for Melungeons before. A Lumbee was hung in
Georgia and Lumbee have some Goins so maybe that is the Lumbee Goins family. John MULLINS (Son of Irish Jim Mullins)-b. ca.1823 TN. Married Mahala COLLINS, dau. of Solomon and Gincie (GOINS) COLLINS.
Joseph Goins, born 1766 in Virginia; died (?). He married Millie Lovins.
Millie Lovins, born 1770 in Virginia; died (?).
Children of Joseph Goins and Millie Lovins are:
Virginia Jane "Gincy" Goins, born 1793 in Fairfax Co., VA; died (?); married Solomon Dickinson Collins.
Aletha Goins, born ca. 1795; married (1) Gilford Frost; married (2) James Livesay February 19, 1851.
George W. Goins, born ca. 1797; married Lively Bunch August 5, 1839 in Hawkins Co., TN.
Hardin Goins, born ca. 1800.
44230 Joeseph Goins b 1766 d 1859 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
So this Joseph Goins must of been who Will Allen Dromgoole was talking about. However these Goins actually lived on Newman's ridge not off the ridge and these Goins did not have the features Will Allen Dromgoole mentioned for the Goins family which is seen in the pictures of Mahala Collins.
Here is pictures of Mahala taken from Newspapers: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39642771
"The first census of Hancock Co., Tn. listed: Fam. #77N. LIVELY BUNCH, 50, b. Va., cake baker, dau. of Joseph & Rachel Bunch."
http://www.historical-melungeons.com/bunchnotes.html
Remember Paul Bunch is who was named a Melungeon in Sneedville, Tenn.
247883 Samuel Bunch, Hancock County, TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2a1a1b4
95039 Elza Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
83214 Lorenzo Dow Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
Here is copy of Rachel Bunch's will which names Samuel and Lively.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2593875/Copy-of-the-Last-Will-and-Testament-of--Rachel-Bunch-deceased
Since Lorenzo matches Samuel and Elza Bunch's DNA, We will look at Lorenzo's ancestry. He probally goes back to John BUNCH (BUNCE), Sr born Abt 1636 England Or Scotland, John's father was Ensign Thomas (Bunch) BUNCE born Abt 1607-1612 Kent County, England. http://avocadoridge.com/carney/getperson.php?personID=I4726&tree=tree1
Judging by the DNA Haplogrouup, this family tracing back to Louisa county, VA, and the name Lorenzo Dow Bunch and the Kentucky location. DNA has proved these Bunch's are not part of the Bertie county, NC Bunch family as once thought.Since Solomon Collins DNA was not added but was with this group, here is his family history:
Solomon Collins SR, born 1760 in Cumberland Co., PA; died February 8, 1838 in Hawkins Co., TN. He married Edy Dickinson 1796 in North Carolina.
Edy Dickinson, born ca. 1762; died (?).
Children of Solomon Collins and Edy Dickinson are:
Solomon Dickinson Collins, born 1799 in North Carolina; died June 28, 1863; married
Virginia Jane "Gincy" Goins.
George Collins, born ca. 1800, died (?).
Charles Collins, born ca. 1802, died (?).
Robert Collins, born ca. 1804, died (?).
So this still leaves the "Negro" Goins family Will Allen Dromgoole mentioned. Going to the recent Newspaper article Jack Goins stated this about his DNA results
"It surprised me so much when mine came up African that I had it done again,"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/melungeon-dna-study-origin_n_1544489.html
So this shows his Goins line did not go to the Goins who lived on Newman's Ridge which showed as a R1b1a2 (Western European R-M269).familytreemaker.genealogy.com - Joseph Newman "Haplogroup A contains some of the oldest Y-chromosome lineages on Earth. Typically found among isolated groups in southern and eastern Africa, the haplogroups is very rare today. It can occasionally be found among African Americans, however." 23andme
72301 George Washington Goins Unknown Origin A
So this would match with a "Negro" Goins family who did not live on Newman's ridge.
"Evidently both my Goins and Minor family told this census person they were Portuguese and he wrote Portugee in race column, but later wrote the initial W real dark over this Portuguese maybe because he noticed the 1880 census did not list Portuguese. " http://www.jgoins.com/maybe_melungeon.htm
This again confirms what Will Allen stated "The Portugese blood has been a misfortune to the first Melungeons in as much as it has been a shield to the Goins clan under which they have sought to shelter themselves and repudiate the African streak. " http://www.historical-melungeons.com/meltree.html
"Now about the Collins boys, I knew when I was a boy Navarrh, or as he was called, "Vardy" Collins was a fine old patriarch, said to be of Portuguese Nationality" http://www.historical-melungeons.com/Rhea_Letter.html
This matches with Thomas wood records also since his servant was a man from Portugal (The country not colony). "We hence sent back a horse belonging to Mr. Thomas Wood, which was tired, by a Portugal, belonging to Major General Wood," Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800.
www.donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/battsandfallamjournal.pdf
This would match with Vardy's DNA being R1a1a. Would also match with the first record of the word Melungeon in 1810 saying Melungeons was neither Negro nor Indian but was Foreigners. www.jogg.info/72/files/Estes.pdf All the Gibsons in the project was R1b1a2, except for a Willie Gibson, who was Willie Gibson? I have tried to find information on any Willie Gibson associated with Melungeons. All the project has listed is a name with no dates, the DNA shows this mysterious Willie Gibson to be no relation to any other Gibsons.www.jgoins.comMaybe Melungeon Jack Goins This story deals with some unanswered questions on th...See More - Joseph Newman Next person in the project Peter Mallet, the Mallett name is not a Melungeon surname so it is unclear why this person is in the project for Melungeons,
182331 Peter Mallett, 1820 Census, Wilkes County, NC Unknown Origin E1b1a7a
PETER MALLETT was the ancesteral father of the Hawkins County, Hancock County, Bradley County, and Hamilton County, TN Malletts. Not much is known about Peter Mallett, but it is believed that he was a Melungeon.
Peter Mallett married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN about 1815 in Wilkes County, NC. Elizabeth was born about 1790 in NC.
Children of PETER MALLETT and ELIZABETH UKNOWN are:
i. UNKNOWN MALLETT, b. 1817; d. Abt. 1840; m. JOHN BEGLEY, Abt. 1835; b. 1805, Hawkins, Tennessee.
ii. LEVI MALLETT, b. 1819, NC; d. June 06, 1862, Lexington, Kentucky.
iii. WILLIAM JEFFERSON MALLETT, b. 1825.
iv. MALINDA MALLETT, b. 1826; d. Aft. 1860; m. WILLIAM HOPKINS, Abt. 1845; b. 1820, Hawkins, Tennessee.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vljones/mallet/mallet01.html
LEVI MALLETT was born in 1819 in Wilkes County, NC, and died on June 06, 1862 in Lexington, KY
Levi Mallett married ELIZABETH MINOR February 15, 1842 in Hancock Co, TN, daughter of JOHN MINOR and SUSAN GOINS. She was born 1823 in Hawkins County, TN, and died April 10, 1861 in Hawkins Co, Tennessee.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON MALLETT was born in 1825 in Wilkes County, NC. He married JOHANNAH ANDERSON. She was born in 1830 in Grayson County, VA, and was the daughter of STEPHEN ANDERSON and SARAH PERKINS.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Joseph Newman 40479 John Going b. c. 1730, Fairfax Co., VA Unknown Origin E1b1a
5510 Gilford Minor Unknown Origin E1b1a
41026 Simp Miner Unknown Origin E1b1a
36031 Hezekiah Miner 1765-1830 Unknown Origin E1b1a
HEZEKIAH MINOR was born 1766 in Halifax County, Virginia, and died 1840 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH GOINS September 19, 1795 in Henry, Virginia, daughter of John and Elizabeth Going. Elizabeth Going, wife of Hezekiah Miner, was namesed in the 1801 will of her father John Going, Jr., of Henry Co. Va.
Children of HEZEKIAH MINOR and ELIZABETH GOINS are:
i. JAMES MINOR, b. Hancock County, Tennessee; d. Fisher Vally, Hancock County, Tennessee.
ii. JOHN MINOR, b. 1797, Virginia; d. 1850.
iii.ZACHARIAH MINOR, b. 1798, Rockingham County, North Carolina; d. March 10, 1872, Kyles Ford, Tennessee. v.LEWIS MINOR, b. December 24, 1807, Rockingham County, North Carolina; d. October 30, 1877, Hancock County, Tennessee.
Only marriages from this family to Melungeons families which I could find are,SUSAN MINOR (ZACHARIAH2, HEZEKIAH1) was born May 14, 1835, and died November 16, 1914. She married (1) WILLIAM GOINS. She married (2) GEORGE WASHINGTON GOINS 1865 in Tennessee, son of GEORGE GOINS and MUNCEY. He was born 1835 in North Carolina. Their daughter was, LILLIE Earnestine GOINS, b. 1882, Hancock County, Tennessee; m. JOSEPH COLLINS; b. March 1883, Hancock County, Tennessee. Lillie was listed as white by the Government. http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/2011/218/74565262_131276386476.jpg
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ZACHARIAH2 MINOR (HEZEKIAH1) was born 1798 in Rockingham County, North Carolina, and died March 10, 1872 in Kyles Ford, Tennessee. He married AGGIE SIZEMORE October 18, 1824. She was born July 29, 1803 in Tennessee, and died 1870 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
Their son, JAMES MINOR, b. March 18, 1845; m. AMANDA GIBSON; b. March 16, 1868; d. December 12, 1930.
Their daughter,
LYDIA MINOR (ZACHARIAH2, HEZEKIAH1) was born 1836 in Tennessee, and died 1880 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. She married (1) JAMES GOODMAN.
http://www.historical-melungeons.com/hezekiah_minor.html
Simp Miner and Gilford Minor's information,
Simpson P. Miner
Date and Place of Birth: TN June 12 1855
Name and age of spouse: Mary Sizemore 46
Father: Gilford Minor
Mother: Polly Goins
Where were they born:
Father: Hancock County, TN
Mother: Hancock, TN
Grandparent's Father's side: Zach Miner-Agga Sizemore
Grandparent's Mother's side: Zar(Isiaih Goins) Minta (Arminta)
http://www.historical-melungeons.com/cherokee1.html
Information on the Joseph Collins who married Lillie,
He was a member of the Secret Order of the Redman of Appalachia.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68848903
JAMES3 MINOR (ZACHARIAH2, HEZEKIAH1) was born March 18, 1845, and died 1909. He married (1) AMANDA GIBSON, daughter of GEORGE GIBSON and ESTER ???. She was born March 16, 1868, and died December 12, 1930. He married (2) ELIZA HURD. He married (3) SARAH WINSTEAD. He married (4) SARA SMITH.
Notes for AMANDA GIBSON:
GIBSON Family
First Generation
1. George1 Gibson birth date unknown. George died date unknown at age unknown.(50)
http://genforum.genealogy.com/minor/messages/1260.html
image2.findagrave.com - Joseph Newman "George Gibson born in 1834 son of Lambert Gibson and Margaret (Peggy) Gibson. He married Ester Stampler in 1854"
http://genforum.genealogy.com/gibson/messages/13175.html
Lambert Gibson was born 1802 in Scott County,Va.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/i/b/James-L-Gibson/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0047.html
genforum.genealogy.com - Joseph Newman I had always thought the bunch family was the black bunch family of bertie county...but when i checked this...the newman's ridge bunch family not only did not have african haplogroups...but is not even related to the bertie county bunch family lol
- Joseph Newman First recorded use of the word Melungeon was in 1810 when it was stated Melungeons was neither Negro nor Indian, they was "Foreigners".
www.jogg.info/72/files/Estes.pdf
"Vardy Collins, Shepherd Gibson, Benjamin Collins, Solomon Collins, Paul Bunch and the Goodmans, chiefs and the rest of them settled here about the year 1804, possibly about the year 1795, but all these men above named, who are called Melungeons, obtained land grants and muniments of title to the land they settled on and they were the friendly Indians who came with the whites as they moved west. These Indians came to Newman’s Ridge and Blackwater. Some of them went into the War of 1812-1914 whose names are here given; James Collins, John Bolin and Mike Bolin and some others not remembered; " Sneedville Attorney Lewis Jarvis , The Hancock County Times
Sneedville, Tennessee, 17 April 1903
http://historical-melungeons.blogspo...s-article.html
87771 Vardy Collins b 1764 Unknown Origin R1a1a
87768 Shepherd Gibson d. 1842 Hawkins Co. TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2
210660 Obadiah Goodman 1770-1839 KY and TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2
154495 Alfred Goodman, 1828-1898 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
247883 Samuel Bunch, Hancock County, TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2a1a1b4
95039 Elza Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
83214 Lorenzo Dow Bunch Unknown Origin R1b1a2
B2319 James Collins , b. 1773 and d. 1860 United States E1b1b1
125415 William Bolin, b.cir 1813, d.cir 1882 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
200122 Benjamin Bolling or Boling United States R1b1a2
87510 Benjamin Collins R1b1a2
R1b1a2 (R-M269)
"Western Europe is dominated by the R1b1a2 (R-M269) branch of R1b"
Haplogroup R1b (Y-DNA) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"More than 100 million European men carry a type called R-M269"
"R-M269 is most common in western Europe, reaching frequencies of 90% or more in Spain, Ireland and Wales."
BBC News - DNA study deals blow to theory of European origins
"These two, Vardy Collins and Buck Gibson, were the had and source of the Melungeons in Tennessee. Old Benjamin Collins, one of the pioneers, was older than Vardy, but came to Tennessee a trifle later. He had quite a large family of children, among them Edmond, Mileyton, Marler, Harry, Andrew, Zeke, Jordon. From
Jordan Collins descended Calloway Collins who is still living today and from whom I obtained some valuable information. Benjamin Collins was known as old Ben, and became the head of the Ben's tribe. Old Solomon Collins was the head of Sol's tribe. The English branch began with the MULLINS tribe, a very powerful tribe, Old Jim Mullins, the father of the branch, was an Englishman. The African branch was introduced by one Goins who emigrated from North Carolina after the formation of the state of Tenn. Goins was a Negro, and did not settle upon the Ridge, but lower down the Big Sycamore Creek in Powell's Valley. He took a Melungeon woman for his wife (took up with her),and reared a family or tribe. The Goins family may be easily recognized by their kinky hair ,flat nose and foot, thick lips, and a complexion totally unlike the Collins and Mullins tribes. The Portuguese branch was for a long time a riddle, the existence of it being stoutly denied. It has at last,
however, been traced to one "Denham", a Portuguese who married a Collins woman. "
http://www.historical-melungeons.com/meltree.html
87771 Vardy Collins b 1764 Unknown Origin R1a1a
87768 Shepherd Gibson d. 1842 Hawkins Co. TN Unknown Origin R1b1a2
69729 David Denham, b. 1754, Louisa County, VA. Unknown Origin I1
87373 Irish Jim Mullins of Hawkins Co. TN, b. c. 1780 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
44230 Joeseph Goins b 1766 d 1859 Unknown Origin R1b1a2
72301 George Washington Goins Unknown Origin A
40479 John Going b. c. 1730, Fairfax Co., VA Unknown Origin E1b1a
Melungeon Mitochondrial DNA:
To date, all of the descendants tested fall into haplogroup H, a clearly European haplogroup.
Mahala Collins H
Elizabeth Collins H
Margaret "Peggy" Gibson H
Rachel Reed H
Jemina Simmes (Sinnes) H
Aggy Sizemore H
www.jogg.info/72/files/Estes.pdf
Bryan Sykes in his book Blood of the Isles gives imaginative names to the founders or "clan patriarchs" of major British Y haplogroups, much as he did for mitochondrial haplogroups in his work The Seven Daughters of Eve. He named R1a1a in Europe the "clan" of a "patriarch" Sigurd, reflecting the theory that R1a1a in the British Isles has Norse origins.
R1a1 has been proposed to have arisen in the Kurgan culture. The Kurgans are believed to have domesticated horses in around 3000 B.C., which may have driven the spread of the R1a1 haplogroup. Genetic and archeological evidence suggests that the Kurgans spoke and spread an early Indo-European language (Wells et al., 2001).
"Haplogroup H is the most common mtDNA haplogroup in Europe. The majority of the European populations have an overall haplogroup H frequency of 40%–50%" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_H_%28mtDNA%29
"More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western Eurasia. " http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/2/436.abstract
"While many I1 members trace their ancestry to Scandinavia, others find their roots in the British Isles, Germany, and beyond."
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/yDNA_I1
"Y-DNA Haplogroup I is confusing. On the one hand it seems ancient in Europe. It rarely appears outside the boundaries of Europe and European colonies. So it is not a good candidate for arrival with farmers from the Near East. Nor does it seem the prime candidate for spread with the Indo-Europeans, since they travelled both west into Europe and east into the Indian Subcontinent. So the natural conclusion is that haplogroup I has been stalking around Europe since the Stone Age."
http://www.buildinghistory.org/dista...logroupi.shtml
"E1b1b is distributed as far south as South Africa, and northwards into North Africa, from where it has in more recent millennia expanded to Europe and Asia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogr...9#Distribution
"E1b1b, which is the most common Y Haplogroup among Ethiopians, Somalis, Eritreans and North African Berbers and Arabs, is the third most common Haplogroup in Europe."
http://history.loftinnc.com/DNA_Testing.htm
"The Wright Brothers belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1b1" http://history.loftinnc.com/DNA_Testing.htm
"Albert Einstein was from the 20% of Eastern European Jews and belongs to Haplogroup E1b1b" http://www.e1b1b1-m35.info/2011/02/e...stein-and.html - Joseph Newman "DNA tests reveal 'Hitler was descended from the Jews and Africans he hated'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305414/Hitler-descended-Jews-Africans-DNA-tests-reveal.html
www.dailymail.co.ukSamples taken from relatives of the Nazi leader show that he is biologically linked to the 'sub-human' races he sought to exterminate.
All administrators of a DNA project can see who each person in his project matches and they know who that person is. This persons name is strictly confidential. He is identified by his kit number and most distant ancestor that he listed with his test results. If a person is listed as say John Doe and his DNA matches Richard Roe only the administrators and the person tested knows this. All Joe Newman can see is the public site and just because someone claims his most distant ancestor is Solomon Collins, this does not prove he is even a Collins. Administrators are informed by the DNA company of each match, and who that person matches.
ReplyDeleteA few people are only interested in a truth that reinforces what they want to believe. The truth, which discounts all of this, and which cannot be refuted, is very unpopular. The Core Melungeon Y-DNA Project was formed with Family Tree DNA on July 25, 2005 and our project was professionally run, academically published and no credible resource has contested it. There are no Newman's in our Core Melungeon DNA project, because Newman is not a Core Melungeon name. In checking the tax 1810 and census records 1830 of the area that became Hancock County in 1844, I find no Newman's. Searching the first US Census of Hancock County 1850, then 1860-70-80 on through 1900, I find no Newman's listed in Hancock County.
http://www.jogg.info/72/files/Estes.pdf Jack