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Definition: Croatan Indians
Melungeon
\Me*lun"geon\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]langer to mix,
m['e]lange a mixture.]
One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of
Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early
intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North
Carolina the
Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost
colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now
legally recognized as distinct.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]