Author Archives: Roberta Estes

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About Roberta Estes

Scientist, author, genetic genealogist. Documenting Native Heritage through contemporaneous records and DNA.

The Pierce Family of Tyrrell County

The Pierce family of Tyrrell County is known to be of Native Heritage.  The early records including the 1790 census records these individuals as Free People of Color (FPC) as do other records tax records.  Let’s see what the official … Continue reading

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Notes on the Yuchi (Chiscas)

Extracted from the book, “The Melungeons” by Bonnie Ball P 35 – Dr. John Swanton a recognized authority on the Creek Indians, has said that the earliest mention of the Yuchi (also called the Chisca) is found in early Spanish documents, “published … Continue reading

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Native Clues in Non-Native Wills

As the director and newsletter editor of the Lost Colony Research Group, I’ve been working with the early North Carolina and Virginia records for some time now.  I’ve written several items for our newsletter which I’ll be posting here as … Continue reading

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Native Heritage Project – Status and Upcoming Goodies

I thought I’d take a few minutes today to just chat with you folks about how things are going with the Native Heritage Project, the Native Names project and what the future holds.  If you recall, the Native Names project is compiling … Continue reading

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Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War from New Jersey

Given that it’s the 4th of July, I thought something about Native people who served in the Revolutionary War would be nice for today. New Jersey is a smaller state, but due to their position on the coast and the … Continue reading

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East India Indians in Early Colonial Records

Paul Heinegg, in his epic ongoing project documenting free people of color in the colonial US and early America recorded specifically and identified as such, East Indian Indians.  For purposes of clarification, these people were from what is now India … Continue reading

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Raleigh, a Wynganditoian

This article, written by Andy Powell, was published in the February 2012 issue of the Lost Colony Research Group newsletter.  Thank you Andy for permission to reprint here. “Raleigh a Wynganditoian, Richard the son of Baptist Tooker and Katheryne the daughter … Continue reading

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Oneida Interviews by Lyman Draper

The Oneida removed to a reservation in Wisconsin beginning about 1820, a migration process that lasted until about 1880.  This move was influenced by a white man named Eleazor Williams who was a missionary among the tribe beginning about 1817.  … Continue reading

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What’s in a Name? – The Tuscarora in Transition

As we know, most of the Tuscarora tribe went north to join the Iroquois Confederation, the last of them leaving Bertie County, North Carolina in 1804 in an exodus that took almost a century to complete.  At the close of the Tuscarora … Continue reading

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Beaufort Co., NC Native Records

Thanks to Kay Lynn Sheppard for extracting this information from her reference books.  If other folks would check their books for people noted as Indians, I’d be very grateful and so would our blog subscribers Source: Beaufort Co., NC Deed … Continue reading

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