Directory of Mestees of South Carolina Resources

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Mestee (old mixed race) groups in South Carolina, such as the Brass Ankles, Red Bones, Turks, and Smilings. Description, history, sociology, status and connections with other groups. Connected with each other and with the Melungeons and Lumbees by movement and intermarriage. Can be considered to be Melungeons of South Carolina, since Melungeon can be used for any group of people derived from old mixing of White, Black and Native American, especially if the mix includes some Mediterranean input. All these groups fit this description.

Resources in This Category

• Frontline: Locklear

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/locklear.html
  This article on Heather Locklear's Lumbee ancestry contains some references to the Mestees of South Carolina.

• Smilings

  http://www.historical-melungeons.com/smiling.html
  Old article on the Smilings of Sumter County.

• Surviving Indian groups of the eastern United States

  http://www.gilbert1948.webs.com/
  Article by William Harlen Gilbert Jr. in the Smithsonian Report for 1948. Information on many Mestee and Indian groups.

• The "Free Moors" of South Carolina

  http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/moors.htm
  Includes image and transcript of the Journals of the House of Representatives.

• Tri-Racials: Black Indians of the Upper South

  http://www.genealogytoday.com/news/archive/1199news.htm
  This article on Mestee groups mentions Brass Ankles, Red Bones and Turks of South Carolina. It combines the Red Bones of SC with the Redbones or Louisiana Melungeons. Based on DeMarce's work, for the most part.

 

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