Who are the Black Dutch!
Have you ever heard of your ancestor being a "Black Dutch"? This is a common saying across the South and most likely if you have heard this term referred in your family you have also heard of a Native American Indian in your family lines.
The term Black Dutch like the term Black Irish was used in early America to hide non white ancestry and to try and pass off as being white. There are many families across the Southern United States with Black Dutch and "Cherokee" or "Choctaw" ancestry.
In general, if you had to be Native American or part African or anything that was not "white" it was better to label yourself a Cherokee than another Indian or mixed group because of the social stereotypes in the United States in regards to race by the majority groups.
Black Dutch, the term, also has strong connections to the Melungeons, Redbones and other Mestee Indian groups like the Lumbee of North Carolina or one of the many groups scattered across the Southern U.S. like the Mowa Choctaw and Clifton Choctaw.
My own heritage says I am BLACK DUTCH.
Photos of Me and my daughter Erin Alyssa.
My Known family Surnames include Archer, Thompson, Miller, Wolf, Peace, Stephens-Stevens, Young, Adams, Doty, Reasoner, Vinson, Bounds, James and West. Walts, Lewis and Gipson.
Miller Family Great Aunt and Great Grandmother
Erin's known family surnames include Emerline, Stevens, Smith and Padilla.
http://www.geocities.com/mikenassau/BlackDutch.htm
http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/BlackDutch.html
The Walts family. Uncle Paxton, Dad, and Aunt Bestine Youngblood. Black Dutch
Redbones and Melungeons
The Melungeons are from the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennesee. They may have came from Indian communities in Virginia and South Carolina.
They are Mestee, or of mixed ancestry and are probably mixed with White, Black and Native American Peoples of many nations.
The White is said to be of English, Scotch Irish, Turk, Spanish and Portygee (Portuguese), Sephardic Spanish Jews, Romani (Gypsy) and East Indian.
They have been in the area for as long as one remembers.
The Redbones of Louisiana probably came from South Carolina where another group of people known as Redbone existed.
All of these groups share a related ancestry and the same common surnames are found in each Mestee group.
Like the Melungeons, the Redbones are descendents of many different Native American groups as well as English, Scotch Irish, Portuguese and African Mulatto ancestry.
Erin's mom side of the family is below in the photo on the left including her Grandfather David, her mother Lisa, and her Great Grandmother Sarah who is half Cherokee Native American.
My Grandmother Thelma is below on the photo on the right which family tradition says was Black Dutch.
In my family lines we have Gypsy, South Asian, African and a small amount of Native American from "small" tribes such as the Chowan, Meherrin and Nansemond.
My daughter Erin Alyssa has Cherokee (1/16th) and Payaya Native American in her family history
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