OK LETS GET SERIOUS

Trying to look at everything with an open mind, let us take an "unbiased" look at 

this "PUNCH" to BUNCH thing.

 Of course, taking the previous condition of my Genius mindset, it is possible 

that I was, indeed showing myself to be a bit biased:) however I am used to 

that as my brain debates within itself like it was in a debate competition. I'm 

ready to take either side in a debate! Yep, i'm wierd, but as they say, knowing 

yer problem and admitting that; is half the battle toward the cure!

Here I am then, telling you that as the geno's did with Punch/Obama subject, 

my information comes to me about the rest of my family of BUNCH much the 

same way!

To make the sin greater; I knew that before I wrote those articles of.....er..

"Impeachment" (Yeah, that's funny to me. And that kind of tickles ma mind:)

I'm thinking about my Paul Bunch. You see that is about all we have....oops!

I typed "We" when I know better than include myself with the real Geno's work. 

You see, by necessity I am only A name collector. But as I was saying, all they 

have to work with is a hint of who lived where, and next to whom, and most the 

importantly when!

In a world not filled by; your local pharmacy, corner Quikstops, and supermall 

Opticians with "one hour" service for new trifocals. Perhaps two barbershops just 

in your neighborhood. There was no interferance in their lives, let alone 

"paperwork"! Back then there was no streets, let alone corners! 

Without much Government in their lives, there would be nothing to mark their 

passing in this world. What is left to us would be the usual haunts for family

searchers. Their list would be short indeed, as it is for any before the 1600's for 

sure. An old letter; a Bible; recorded deeds; "I remember what momma told 

me"; and that's about seventy percent more than people have to chase. Later, in 

the case of the BUNCH family, court cases are a big trail. Especially in the 

jurisdiction of the "Hanging Judge" of Arkansas. Drunk; Robbery; Thieft; Murder; 

all in the records. And back in Tennessee; counterfieting coins. Back in Old 

Virginia, it was Indians stealing hogs! And a biggie; trying to marry a White 

Woman! The audacity of some people that don't know they place.....:) 

Unless you were mentioned in some Officers' memoirs, or book about travels, 

perhaps a later surveyor's notes, then you were out of luck. So census records 

are very important. Before that, family Bibles filled with births and deaths, which 

are admissible in some cases in court, are a treasure, and a blessing. 

"Quitrents" would be all important. And if your a "Newby" and don't know of 

those, you have a bit of reading to do to catch up.

A hundred years ago, checking me for a "Secret Classification" was easy. The 

Navy came to town in civilian suits, so as to not stand out, which made them 

stand out. Overalls and a soiled, beat up old Stetson, as the Texas Rangers wear 

whenever they trapes around town would have been better. A quick in and out 

to drink a five cent bottled coke, is much better than a "Lawyer Look", or 

Insurance salesmen look, provoking a "stay away from me" attitude you would 

get from most people back in them days! Having a talk with my barber, the only 

pharmacist, and the principal, and your done. Matter of fact, thinking of it, they 

did all that within five blocks of my house! And of course my parents got a 

phone call from everyone they talked to! (I was almost seventeen:)

Well to quit fooling around just to practice my one finger typing skills; lets get to 

the other side of my brain and see what might just mitigate my judgement a 

wee bit. I remembered looking up Punch family hustory. I figured that if it is a 

real name, it must have come from somewhere. Now pulling up my notes from 

my lost file folder, which contains everything after the "C" prompt and the 

"Documents" folder, this is what I found.

"Punch History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms...The name Punch came to 

England with the ancestors of the Punch family in the Norman Conquest of 

1066. It comes from the Latin-Norman personal name Pontius, "hence, 

doubtless, as a diminutive the name Puncheon, variant of Punshon." 

So far, so good. 

"Two other sources claim the name was Norman in origin: having derived from 

the Old Norman French name Ponche or the Old French name Ponce; [2] and/or 

from the Norman name Poyntz or Ponz, a branch of the Fitz-Ponce family. [3]"

French? Sure, they seem to get into every thing:) 

"Early Origins of the Punch family

The surname Punch was first found in various counties throughout Britain. The 

first record of the family was found in the Pipe Rolls of 1181 where Godfrey, 

Phillip Punch(e) was listed. Seman Ponche was listed in the Subsidy Rolls of 

Suffolk in 1327. [2] The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 list: Robert Punche in 

Oxfrdshire; and Philip Punche in Suffolk. Later the Rolls of Parliament listed 

John Punche, yeoman of the crown (no date given.) [4]"

Oh! So now we have names! we might trace em' down to see which one 

immigrated to the colonies? Skipping down to avoid stuff, we com e to the 

'nitty-gritty.

""The manor [of Linch in Sussex] is described in the Domesday Survey under the 

name of Lince, and at the time when that record was compiled, there were two 

ministers here, with a church. In the 16th century, the place was parcel of the 

estates of the dukes of Norfolk; it afterwards became the property of Viscount 

Montague, and eventually of the family of Poyntz." [6]"

Oh cra-rud! Look what popped up! Most would miss this, not being well-read of 

history, luckily I am. But what a surprise! Especially to me...that name "Poyntz".

Ain't that one of them ancient spellings for BUNCH?

"Anglo-Norman names tend to be marked by an enormous number of spelling 

variations. This is largely due to the fact that Old and Middle English lacked any 

spelling rules when Norman French was introduced in the 11th century. The 

languages of the English courts at that time were French and Latin. These 

various languages mixed quite freely in the evolving social milieu. The final 

element of this mix is that medieval scribes spelled words according to their 

sounds rather than any definite rules, so a name was often spelled in as many 

different ways as the number of documents it appeared in. The name was 

spelled Punch, Poyntz, Pons and others."

That name "Pons" is even closer, And wasn't there a "BUNCH ROW/ROWE" that 

I talked about? Well, it's fairly evident that "PUNCH" and "BUNCH" are involved 

in ancient history of England. End of story! 

Thing is. why was I so....blind?  Ok, ok,  I was close to being wrong. Worse still, 

why is that so hard for a Genius like me to admit?  :)

Later,

Dan Bunch

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WHY BUY A DOG WHEN YA GOT A WHOLE HERD OF PLAYMATES?

 THE BLACK AND WHITE OF JOHN PUNCH

" Of the fewer than one hundred African men who resided in Virginia 

before 1640, John Punch is the only man who bears a surname similar to 

Bunch."

"The March 1620 Census Of Virginia ("....892 Europeans,.32 Africans (17 

of whom were male) and four Indians")"

The first questions to my mind are; 

1) Why does he have a surname?

2) Where is the list of the surnames/names of the other 32 Africans?

3) Do you know how many other surnames that "Punch" is similar to? 

Now listen, I am only asking questions here. you know, just to learn and 

think about the things assumed about the geno and the past things of 

family. I wonder if you know about this feller, Bunch Row?

Souece: Washington and his Neighbors; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 4, No. 

1, 1895

Washington and his Neighbors

Lyon G. Tyler

"Until 1630 the settlements of the English in Virginia were confined to

the Accomac Peninsula and the valley of the James.  In 1630 the first

settlements were planted on the south side of the York River at Chiskiack

and York. " 

No! I ain't got that back'ards. It is correctly, Bunch Row. And his name 

come to mind as I thought of the many ways slaves, and truely, any man 

or woman could, and did change their names, fast as they changed...shoes. 

(They didn't wear underwear, or for that matter, shoes very often back 

then!)

"14.  Andrew1 Monroe had grants in Virginia from 1650 to 1662.  He is

referred to in the Maryland Archives in one place as "mariner".  He died

about 1668, when his widow married secondly George Horner.  He had 

issue,

1, Susannah; 2, Elizabeth, married Bunch Roe; 3, Andrew2; 4, George; 5,

William."

Memory plays tricks on me now-a-days. But I read about this feller years 

ago. Heres what I remember.

Bunch Row, son of Bunch Row, son of Bunch Row, a Dutchman, was living 

in New Amsterdam back in about 1664, when the English fleet attacked! 

Having gotten the word in advance, the Dutch had already skedat'led! The 

English sailed in, without firing a shot in anger, and claimed all the city and 

lands about.

That act made Bunch Row an English citizen. He was glad I reckon, 

because he went across country, to Virginia. How he crossed overland 

through some of the wildest Indian and rogue infested territory I'll never 

understand, but according to the story, he did that!

Soon in Virgina, he bought land, was lucky enough to garner, by auction or 

trade, some slaves. And then he planted tobacco. And of course, enter into 

marrage within one of the finest Old Pioneer Planter families on the river. 

(soon to be s Presidential family.)

You know, the place wherefrom all the Presidential Ancestors that have 

ever been elected to "lead" this great country have mysteriously come

from. That's why they are all kin to one-another! And of course, to me.

So...how many "servants", and then slaves, have taken a word they liked 

or chose; or the name or parts thereof of their master for their own name, 

in history?

By the way. when you pull off the very top of each plant of tobacco in 

order to make it branch out into many leaves, as you would for a "mary 

jane" plant, it's called, "bunching", or "to bunch the plant".

Later,

Dan Bunch

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RELSHUFFLE THEM CARDS  

(DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT EMAILING ME! You'll get no answer these days)

"I depted from James Towne the 9th of August 1610 And" I....."threatned 

to cutt of his heade whereupon the slave alltered his Cowrse and..."

Did he just say, "SLAVE"? Before 1610?  Lets check this against what I 

read.

CHARLES CITTY TIMELINE WITH BUNCH

1608 - First Two Women arrive in Jamestown

1619 - First Africans arrive in Jamestown ("It's not clear if the Africans are 

considered slaves or indentured servants.")

1620 - The Bride Ship arrives in Jamestown

The March 1620 Census Of Virginia ("....892 Europeans, .32 Africans (17 

of whom were male) and four Indians")

1651 - John Bunch "born: about 1630 in England/Scotland/Wales, came to 

Lancaster County, Virginia in 1651 as an indentured servant." 

1716 -TRANSPORTED JACOBITE REBELS (yeah, there is a list of names.)

"Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1648-1676), Talbot (1662-

1674), and Somerset (1665-1668)"

"In Company with William Bunch saruant Saruant to Obidia Judkin When 

he Run away from his Master.....Abidiah Judkins"

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bunch-40"

See Documenting the ancestors of Barack Obama and the descendants - 

“Documenting President Barack Obama's Maternal African-American 

Ancestry: Tracing His Mother's Bunch Ancestry to the First Slave in 

America” 

https://ia601406.us.archive.org/23/items/25004473/25004473.pdf."

"Bunch Family Tree. Whatever Happened To The Melungeons??? Web. 7 

Feb. 2018. <https://pamsfamilytrees.weebly.com/>."

We are right here honey! Can slaves buy land, or get it awarded? Are their 

children ever born free? Can they then buy land? Some may forget that the 

appointed men don't rule alone. The church judges, fines, awards lashes, 

lengthens servitude years, binds children to tradesmen for years, put men 

in stocks, and keeps the money from fines they levey! A bastard child must 

be confessed to on "his" (the father's) knees! He gets a fine, thirty lashes. 

She gets years added to her indenture, her child bound out, for a fee of 

course!

WikiTree

"Anastasia Harman, Paul C. Reed, Natalie D. Cottrill, Joseph Shumway, 

"Documenting President Barack Obama’s maternal African-American 

ancestry: tracing his mother’s Bunch ancestry to the first slave in America," 

(Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 16 July 2012) Read at Internet Archive."

"Kathie (Parks) Forbes;"The Ancestry document on the descendants of 

John Punch [1] is VERY well documented."

Genealogy of Barack Hussein Obama Jr

AND...For a few generations, Genealogy of Dan Bunch

1 John BUNCH b: 1636 d: 1700

  + Mary b: 1640

    2 John BUNCH b: 1665 d: 1729

      + Temperance BATES

        3 John BUNCH b: 1690 d: 14 MAR 1741

          + Rebecca HARRISON b: 1699 d: 16 MAR 1770

            4 Samuel BUNCH b: 1726 d: 1783

              + Mary HUDSON b: 1726 d: 31 JAN 1792

I ain't try'n to pick a fight here, only try'n to understand. Just by going with 

what I've read, what about.....

Morning Bunch of the Rose Bunch Tuckahoe Indian Tribe? She didn' get 

that name from one of her husbands named "BUNCH", cause' he changed 

it from "BUNDREN", which didn' make his dad angry. Since he changed his 

name from "BOUNDURANT", to "BUNDREN"! To BUNDREN to reflect 

"English" instead of "Alsace" (French), where his family immigrated from. 

Also in the case of marryin', kin of Rose Bunch, (Me Mum's Name also!) it 

was for trade'n with the indians. By the way my SNEED married her(the 

Indian Rose Bunch) too!

What about people coming to the "new world" and not checking in with the 

English authorities? As one young man did, trying to Drop out of Society. 

Then, finding the indians getting cheated by the English Traders, wrote his 

"Billionaire" shipping Father to send some of "His"; Jr's, own ships! (He 

might'a dropped out, but thanks to Grandpa, he, Junior, was a shipping 

"millionaire" himself, and saw an opportuity to help the poor indiginous 

souls! (Forgot Jr's name) He also taught the Indians math; English; 

German; French Languages; and very importantly, value of money in trade.

What about the black African that walked to VA from Mexico, surviving an 

indian attack that whipped out a Spanish Military patrol? Do you reckon 

Capt Cook left any BLACKS behind, judging them not to have family to 

pay huge ransom?

Later,

Dan Bunch

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Koko Pellijojo made of aluminum wire   Went fishing and caught a Mammoth!

 P

 

 Dan Note: From an earlier email. An answer in a dialogue. Reproduced here just to get you thinking in term you might not be used to.

Howdy,

SO!..........................you're into cannibalism? :)

I think you are not correct.........entirely:) When you say;

"For me, I am [CURRENTLY] convinced that the Portuguese ship(s)

of Angolan slaves--freed to indenture in and around Jamestown

(and possibly elsewhere, but apparently not recorded) up and down

the coast, ARE the core, and the single shared element among ALL

Melungeons.  And that NOT ALL the Angolans' family lines led to

Melungia, but that SOME did."

I think you meant; "from indenture"? But as they, "the first blacks" imported 

by the Dutch ship, we now know which ship they were taken from, as I 

understand it? And then we know it was from Dutch controlled Africa? No 

matter...my thinking is that as ONE person, a doctor, arriving on an English 

ship as the Medical Officer, bought most all of the black "servants never a 

slave" cargo. This Doctor (sorry cannnot now recall name:( was one that was 

killed during an indian uprising. (1622) His widow was holed up with two

children and another man while he went to the aid / medical care, of others. 

He was slain within sight of the cabin. The widow hit an Indian on the head 

whenever he entered through the chimney or ceiling. The other man was 

also fighting. (With A long barreled Goose gun, later shipped to England to 

have the barrel cut off.) A neighbor or servant, I forget which. (A 

shoemaker) And the two small boys, each taking the nickname of the thing 

they had to hid under, a washtub and a cookpot? or some such, for the rest 

of their lives! Both were very young. She remarried and moved later. 

Thing is; if these, the largest group of African "imports", all were owned by 

one person, one could assume that they also, at least for a while, lived, ate, 

and mated, within hearing distance of one another:) That would mean that 

their children, and grandchildren, might have also been close in physical 

communication:) So that the first mating of African/European, would have 

intermarried with European or the "same kind" next generation, ie 

European/African. This is encouraging. In that it is easier to look for a "core" 

than a scattering of "enlisted" or "volunteers", say for instance.

However, to say that in generations later on, they all stayed together, or 

interbred, is a bit harder to understand the logic, if it indeed happened that 

way. One or two going to a place and intermarrying and isolating themselves 

is more understandable, and would make the outcome the same as many 

going and doing so. But the difference is the Eurpean influx into the two 

genepools (assuming the African to be of the same tribe/family?) and would 

thus give rise to different looks, hair, eye color, etc.

I don't think this is the "core" if you want to call it that. I think that the 

"core" was here already when the African/European admixture took place! 

Yes, I think the "soon-to-be-melungeon", that is, the other half of the 

equasion, was already here for the African "imports" to intermarry with, was 

already here. They were, probably, no.........PROBABLY (so you dont' take it 

as fact and beat me to death with what I said:) Pamunkey survivors and 

others. I think these "others" are of course "both and all" of the 

aforementioned, that is to say, Gypsy; survivors of conflicts; imported; etc. 

And that is why they seem to us to be a mighty mix of many colors and 

creeds and races. The fact is, that most were sailors, or "clams" in that they 

are beach living people, tied to the sailor's trade and or industry. Or t'would 

figure that way. (By "imports" I mean Miners to Germania)                           

            

So let's say for arguing sake that there was Pamunkey where the first ship 

landed (there was) and that they were then entreated and mated with (they 

certainly were) and then that later on they were raided, and before that, 

individuals were thrown into the water from the ships and used as target 

practice, (they were! all true!) and then, at the last, surrounded by 

Europeans and indians, and slaughtered ALMOST intirely. (also true) 

Now, if this thinking is correct, they would have no love for most Europeans 

nor Indians! That too figers. Then a wierd thing happened on the way to 

independence. There was a "cottage industry" set up, by the survivors and 

others, a house of 'ill repute", if I can say it that way. Because the joke was 

for a sailor or enlisted man, to "go see the Queen" (of Pamunkey). That is to 

say, the Pamunkey (offspring that is? colored", as they say) have been dis-

enfranchised and the Pamunkey Tribe now have a discrimination clause in 

their constitution today. They "forbid" any black ancestry/blood from being 

part of their tribe and or reservation they now have. (it was public land 

mostly, now only a few acres). That too could figure into the equasion. (I say 

"now" because it is still in their "charter")

So, what do we have so far? African ancestry for everyone. European 

ancestry for everyone. Outcast for everyone. And now all we need to bring 

it to a boil is "reason for leaving and or wanting to hide". And if we look at 

history, and dan's:) ancestry, we can figure that out too! The new laws 

against intermarriage with whites. And then laws that, in effect, made all fpc 

and/or african servants, slaves for life in Virginia on a particular day.

Add to that the confusion brought on by my ancestor wanting to intermarry, 

about who was considered mulloto; mullata; how many generations to 

"White"; and so forth.

They MIGHT have come from Germania! As MY ancestors did come from 

Germania. And that would bring us to the most unusual fact of early history 

anyone could dream up. 

There was a man named Priber.

1 Christian Gottlieb Priber b: 21 MAR 1697 d: ABT 1744

  + A Cherokee Moytoy b: ABT 1720?

    2 Cristian Place Priber b: ABT 1737?

    2 Creat Priber b: 1740 d: 1790

      + Chief Doublehead (Taltsuska) b: BET 1744 AND 1799 d: 09 AUG 1807

Now, old Priber was from Europe, was well educated, knowing many 

languages. Origonally wanting to immigrate to thr colonies. He applied first 

for allotment land the Jamestown area. This was finally granted, but he did 

not take it, due to his absence from the area. Where did he go? 

Well, seems he heard of a German settlement! Germania, I presume (from 

the gedcoms:), where he got hooked up with the native americans. In fact 

he was adopted into the tribe. He ad learned the language, dressed as a 

native, and lived AS A NATIVE. Many of MY DECENDANTS were in Germania, 

and environs. (remember, I AM a Melungeon line from the "core", if you 

want to put it that way:) And there he became an Indian!

I'm not kidding here. He, for all practical purposes, was indian. He taught 

them. He did not teach them English, French, math, because they already 

knew that!!!! (They all could read, write, and do math, taught them many 

years before by one European "father" that lived in a cave above Jamestown 

in the early years! (Son of a rich shipping merchant.) And so what Priber did, 

was teach them how to trade with the English and others. 

This p.o.'ed the English! The English traders had to actually give good and 

equal value for what they wanted! Astonishing!! But not for long. For the 

British thought he was a "spy" and an instigator, and an ambassador in the 

employ of France. As such, he could be hunted down and imprisioned. Which 

is exactly what happened. He was imprisioned, where he wrote, in Cherokee

the bible; or the New Testament, (part of?). Which writing has never been 

found. This in aide / collaboration with a monk/priest. He also enjoyed the 

visits of many educated and liberal english. But he died in prison. His son 

sold everything of value his father had (before or after death, maybe before 

for bond/eating money?).

And the main thing is; he started a "Utopia"! 

Now, a utopia, in order to qualify as a "utopia", has to accept people. Which 

people? Well, some would be the blessed and educated and monied. But that 

would be a minority. Some would be Indian. And some majority would be 

about the "dregs" of society. Yes I am talking about MY ancestors, and 

probably yours! (as mine intermarried with Indian and Germanic) This would 

then be seen as a major problem to England. 

If this is correct, then there must be at least one (one to three generations 

per hundred years, buddy:) figuring some overlapping. I do remember a 

1960's life cover picture of a slave, showing his back which was whelped with 

the swollen scars of many whip strikes. The last "confederate war veteran" 

did not die until the late 1960's, to put "time" into perspective. Also, about 

Peleg (from my weakened memory:) "In his days was the earth divided" 

means physically, the seas filling the new gaps:)? or, politically, the sea of 

people filling the gaps?:) anyway, ...........there had to be one or two or more 

generations of the offspring of the mating in this Utopia, of Scot (irish-no 

irish:) and indian/ and scot/english/indian/germanic as mine is scot 

"SNEED/McNabb" married to "Willhoite" Germanic/indian, as the 

Willhoite/wilhoit/wilhite/wilhart/ family (even though one says there is no 

intermarrage with indian in the family:) They married at least once:) cause I 

am here!:)

But also there had to be more "entanglements" of races and genotypes, in a 

Utopia, that does occure often. And then as the main man was captured, and 

imprisioned, wouldn't there be a need of flight, for some? The Indians then, 

mostly mullotto actually, as all the historically named ones we know of today, 

(that others teach are "Native American" and "victims" of Europeans, are 

really mullotto, or interbred and could read and write and decifer:) would 

shake out of the mix. The interbreed (looking physically non-Indian 

perhaps? :) leaving one direction, south, and the Indian leaving to the 

southwest? And this is a "Core" of the Melungeon? They, MY family, went to 

help build a Fort Blackmoore. And stayed to live along the Clinch.

This is as close as I can come to the reasoning about this "core" Melungeon. 

I cannot say that I can substantiate any of this, except to point to the history I 

read, and the gedcoms containing Priber and my family and germanic family 

and "assuming" African influx into the Bunch line. I do know that there were 

Bunch Indians. A "Rose Bunch Tuckaho Tribe" which a Boundurant/Bundren 

son married into. Just to mention a different line.

Actually, Boundurant coming to America with his wife; his son changed his 

name to Bundren. And one of his sons , marrying a Mourning Bunch of the 

Rose Bunch Tuckahoe tribe changed his name to Bunch. (or did he marry 

Rose Bunch? I forget:) For trade or protection or both? Perhaps.

No doubt I did not come down this line of bunch! Why, because I am also kin 

to the person next to marry her! A Sneed? Of which I am sure of. And so, we 

may have this Utopian name? It may well have been "Tuckahoe"! That would 

figure! If there was a Tuckahoe tribe, it could have been the name of the 

Utopia that Priber started/joined! Also, it is the name of a root dug from the 

riverbank used to make bread. And the name of an Indian stupid enough to 

show two white men where to dig for gold in exchange for a rifle, which they 

gave to him one bullet at a time! 

Thinking gives me a headache, so that is as far as I can go today. And 

actually, that is about as far as I can go logically, that is, without refering to 

written family stories I gathered online, logically. So I will think on this some 

more. And wait to see if there are any that know more about Priber, a 

facinating person in history. If we use ME as the "benchmark" here, then 

there is a proximity of provincial progeny projected to Priber:) Wow! No 

wonder my head hurts:)

Later,

dan bunch

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                                                                   MY DISTANT KIN

Bunch,Native Americans, Saponi, Cherokee, Melungeon,

 What do you do 

With a drunken Sailor?

 What do you do 

With a drunken Sailor?

Root beer bottle, battery fan, rubberband,and tape!

Or a computer, whose fan goes South just as the snow falls on a Holiday? At midnight?

You McGiver! You adapt! You get the job done! Complete the mission! 

Life is fun,If ya' don't weaken :)

Dan Bunch

TEXAS

Just for fun

 http://www.dinsdoc.com/bruce-1-11.htm

Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. Ch. XI

(DB) Quoted the above here for study, and to further the discussion, as well as for better understanding of the issues. Our thanks to "Bruce" for all his hard work! I'm just a "name-collector, not a Geno by any stretch of the imagination. I am not truly disparaging any Geno or their work, only through study and asking questions can we learn. I just think learn'n don't gott'a be bore'in!

 (DB) Here it is! The truth and lies of the "First Slave" in America....If you can carefully read and understand the subject; and lies separated from truths, amidst all the blood dripping between the lines. You can almost hear the Ghosts speaking through time...to your heart. Screaming for understanding, as they were only human. As are we.

(DB) THE LIE...BUT NOT BY "Bruce, Economic History of Virginia..."

"In 1619, at the moment when the settlers were beginning to feel the first beneficent effects of a milder government, twenty Africans were disembarked from a Dutch privateer, presumably at Jamestown, as the place where a market was most readily found for a cargo of laborers. The ill-fated vessel, which was destined to earn by this single act in its career a sinister immortality in history, was sailing under letters of marque from the Prince of Orange and had been cruising in the Spanish Main for the purpose of capturing Spanish prizes."

(DB) SPOILING THE PLANS OF MICE AND MEN! The conspirator flees.

"Yeardley in the meanwhile having taken the place of Argoll, who had a few days before the arrival of the new Governor returned by stealth to England. The "Treasurer"(DB An English ship) arrived in Virginia in the course of the same summer as the Dutch privateer, but, meeting with a cold reception, she turned back to the Bermudas, carrying with her a number of slaves, who were placed upon the lands which the Earl of Warwick owned in that island. During her stay in the Colony, she seems to have disembarked only one negro, so far as the records shows."

(DB) What? only one negro? Not "TWENTY some odd"? Maybe we know his name! John Punch?

"It has been suggested that the first negroes introduced into Virginia after its occupation by the English were imported in the "Treasurer," and not in the Dutch privateers. All the evidence which has been published goes to confirm the statement of Rolfe,..."

(DB) "into Virginia after its occupation by the English were" Lots of other people of other Nations had started a colonial settlement, even close, if not upon the exact same spot as James City.

"See Census 1624-25, Hotten’s Original List of Emigrants, 1600-1700, p. 224. The name of this negro, who was a woman, was Angela."

(DB) What? A woman? Maybe she was prego?

"In the space of five years immediately following 1619, the number of Africans in the Colony was increased by two."

(DB) Ah Ha! So; she mighta had twins!

"The muster taken of the population in 1624-25 discloses the presence of twenty-two as compared with the twenty brought in by the Dutch privateer, but one of these two additions is accounted for by the fact that the "Treasurer" had landed a negro in Virginia in 1619, and the other had been imported in the "Swan" in 1623. The two children included in the lists of the muster, it may be, were born on the North American continent." 

(DB) Mmmm,...This is beginning to sound awfully familiar..."perhaps one was hatched at sea, inside the, as yet to be marked "Territorial boundaries" then marked as "born in the continental...."

"...if over five years, they were born at sea or in the West Indies. While the mind cannot contemplate the birth of the first negro on North American soil with the same emotions as those aroused by the birth of Virginia Dare, the event nevertheless was one which cannot be regarded without a feeling of the profoundest interest when we reflect upon its association with the great events which were to come after. Whichever of these children, if either, was born in Virginia, it was the first of his race who could claim a nativity in the soil and an absolute identification with its history."

(DB) Amazing to contemplate, ain't it?

"It is an interesting fact that no African perished in the massacre of 1622, when three hundred and forty-five of the colonists fell by the tomahawks and arrows of the Indians." 

(DB) And no births for five years after the first import!

"Their failure to increase in number during the five years immediately...""Five years after the census of 1624-25 was taken, from which it appears that there were twenty-two Africans in the Colony at that time, an important addition was made to the slave population by Captain Grey, who, during a cruise in the ship "Fortune" of London had encountered a vessel loaded with negroes from the Angola coast, captured her and brought her cargo into Virginia. This cargo he exchanged there for eighty-five hogsheads and five butts of tobacco, which were afterwards transported to England for sale. It would seem that no difficulty was found in disposing of these slaves, although they were rude savages stolen only a few weeks before from their native country. The demand for labor was now so urgent that these untrained barbarians were doubtless purchased in haste."

(DB) It is meant, as opposed to "Christ-en-ized" negros, with previ-ou-se employment in the skilled art of enslavement. The Dutch brought negros that attended Church every Sunday? And were "trained", probably by the whip?

"As has been seen in connection with the "Treasurer", which, if not the property of the Company, was owned by its leading members, the restriction to this coast was not strictly observed in its operation." 

(DB) By "Company", he means the investors and thus "owners" in the enterprise of starting a Colony in the "New World". Yeah, Virginia...James Citty...Making money, and eventually putting the Colonists into DEBT to the Company investors, Dub-bull-lee! While quoted by all the history books as having tried to make a buck, and having failed, that is, until "High-Grade" tobacco was established by Rolf. "Established" due to the fact that the NA had a type of the stinkweed long before England was a country!

(DB) Debt in tobacco arriz-ing from Bills to purchase the new incoming "cargo". Shure messes up the narrative, timeline, and the "First Slave in America" theory. seems to me. (Confession due to my conflict: Yea, I was a user; In fact, a "five-pack-a-day man fer a year or two! Also, please notice my surname, if ya ain't already:)

"The Spaniards are said to have occupied Jamestown Island in the previous century and to have sought to make a permanent settlement there, partly by means of the labors of their negro slaves."

(DB) I remember an "Hog Island", but no Jamestown Island? It were a swamp, actually? Spaniards had negro slaves in this land, in the same place Jamestown was later established. Did they leave any? Did any escape? Wadda-you think?

(DB) Why does all of this matter today? I mean after all these years? Because, as a reader and student of History, I know that what has happened may/will happen again! And as my direct kin built the Hope Mansion, it is of great interest to me. Here is a bit of an important history you should read.

https://ncgenweb.us/bertie/indianwoodslostreservation.html

"A LOST RESERVATION by GERALD W. THOMA © 2017

"In April 2017, Dr. Larry E. Tise, Department of History, East Carolina University, contacted me regarding my interest in being a presenter at a conference to be held at Hope Plantation, Windsor, North Carolina, in October 2017, on the history of the Indian Woods reservation."

"English colonists held a disdainful, prejudiced, and discriminatory attitude toward Indians, including mixed-blood persons. Indians were not given the same rights and privileges in colonial North Carolina as those available to citizens of English descent. The Native Americans were largely excluded from English society and were statutorily not allowed to vote. North Carolina law also stipulated that “Indians, Mulattoes, and all mixed Blood, descended from … Indian Ancestors to the Third Generation, Bond or Free, shall be deemed and taken to be incapable in Law to be Witnesses in any Cause whatsoever, except against each other.” In other words, Indians had virtually no legal rights in the eyes of the colony’s judicial system. Equally discriminatory were additional laws related to mixed-blood relationships and the children (mulattoes, quadroons, mustees (octoroons or, more generally, people of mixed ancestry), etc.) born therefrom. Colonial legislators had enacted laws “for Prevention of that abominable Mixture and spurious issue” of white persons intermarrying with “Indians, … Mustees, or Mulattoes.” Laws stipulated that any “white Man or Woman, being free,” who intermarried “with an Indian, … Mustee, or Mulatto . . . or any Person of Mixed Blood, to the Third Generation, bond or free,” was required to pay a sizeable fine to the county in which he or she resided. Personal relationships between whites and any minorities, including mixed-blood individuals, were strongly condemned from a societal point of view.28"

 (DB) But what do I know? I'm just a "name-collector, asking questions.

Dan Bunch

Later,

TEXAS

 A REMEMBERED STORY

This story will be, as most of my stories are, hard to write. Not because of my lack of talent, as I am, after all, a Genius. However, I am too aware that today's world will not abide the world I grew up in. After all the World now contains Generation Z, which for the most part, is afraid of everything!

And that is a shame. Because there is was much freedom, for some, but I assure you, there were constraints on each person, black, white, or whatever color of skin. No, you could not, for instance, dress as you do today even back then in the 50's and 60's.. If you dressed as you do today, britches hanging down (if anyone still does that?), shorts so skimpy as to have almost no "legging" below the crotch, "sports bra", pants "ripped" in just the right places, and most especially, the "Gay" lifestyle, if it is still called such. You would be arrested.

Yes, I'm very old. I have no idea what you call half of what passes for fashion these days. Even my own children handicapped me for living in today's modern, but ancient times; "It's all been done Eons before" in history. All the "Woke"; the "Gay"; the..."Everything" of our outrageous, so-called Society, fashion, and World, can bring forth today. That's right, it's all just a re-run! Romans married their horses! And made an Island called "Lesbos".

Back to my kids though. They dressed "Western". And at school, hung out with that crowd. Each group dressed and separated, and named, after their particular chosen classical social future endeavor. Although "Western" could branch off into, say financial jobs, still it would be Farm and ranch financial in nature. They would go on to A &M college for instance, as opposed to some legal college. And if able, their Professorship would be in some agriculture endeavor, such as biogenic; grass and feeds; or chemistry. Starting out counting bovine f$rts is no glamorous job, but in today's world it seems important to those who eat!

By the way, don't go into a rant about "Vegetarianism". Like i said, I'm an old bird, and them shoes you wear might not be made of leather, but I know the car you drive has animal by-products in it's manufacture, and there was probably two or more cows consumed for every car built! You can't stick on the assembly line drinking fake yogart, not unless you are doing what these "dyed in the wool" Veggiers in New York do. They rent special dining rooms for two and, eat a big steak dinner in private about twice a month. Check it out, ask a waiter or two. That is if there are any fancy restaurants in New York today, or waiters either, these days!

Speaking of rant'n! But cha' see, my problem is how to write it, that is to say, write it so as not to get tossed off this here platform. Nor enrage you instead of informing you. Yep, you got a lot of young people these days need a "safe space", whatever that is. Ya see, back in the day you just spouted the truth as you seen it. Not without thinking of course. And then you defended your point of view. Knuckle bumps on yer haid, and scars on yor' knuckles and face! It'll heal,..some. O'course, those better equipped by genes and nature had a better point advantage, (That's what the thinking beforehand is fer), but if you stay quiet all your life it shows you were easily led, or pushed, around. And that would never do.

Speaking of safe spaces, there ain't none. Wait until you get into a sweat like combat, and maybe some Officer thinks throwing you against an enemy position with impossible survival odds, just as a "Fient", so they can fool the enemy into dealing with killing you, while the "real" effort is taking place somewhere else. That's right, your life don't amount to squat up against "The Big Picture". That's right, throw you away, and tromp through your spilt blood later without thinkin' about it. Getting any respect now, are you, for those that faced similar, and gave all, so you can go uptown and act a fool, if you want to? 

That pistole on an Officer's side is to shoot you with, if you don't comply with orders. And all that stuff in enlistment contracts, like which school your promised, is all taken away in the last paragraphs. All your guaranteed by law is; one meal a day (you might have to kill something or someone, to get to eat.) And one hour's rest. Not sleep; rest. Per day!

Not that matters in the personal scope of things. But it gives your mind something to "curse" upon whenever your backed up a river too small to turn your 30 ft. patrol boat around in, as you await the two o'clock Vietcong village meeting. Which the Seals will try to attend or at least disrupt with fireworks, before running to your boat fora quick getaway, their shirts on fire from a dozen AK-47's! 

So now we've accomplished a couple things, although you might not think so. We understand my brain's wave pattern better, and something of my life experience. Prepared you to understand the problem we have communicating "correctly", which I aim to do, so as to benefit you and society. And we got the dull brained to leave us. All intentional I assure you.

One day long ago, when I was very young, (Yes, even I had days like that.) so as to see the road ahead and read the signs better. I was "learning to drive, as every kid wants to do. I was standing up on the floorboard of the pickup to see over the dashboard. (If those terms are hard for you to understand you might have been better to have gone already. :)

We had a family pickup as well an older car, being in TEXAS, that's still the way most do it. The car for Mom, the family truck for hauling hay to the horses. Everyone I knew had at least a couple. And then fishing just ain't right without a tailgate to sit on, backed up to the lake or river.

So as my Dad worked for Lone Star Gas Company, we were riding in the "company" truck. He had several small towns in North TEXAS to take care of. We were just leaving one, and on the way home just about dusk of a summer's day. As we came up to a city limit sign, I dutifully read that aloud, ignoring all others.

My Dad slowed and pulled to the side of the highway stopping behind an older car with the hood raised, which I had not seen, because I had yet to learn to look far down the road, which is an essential skill to driving.

There was a Black man, about mid-thirties, dressed in work clothes, bending over the front fender of the car, then straightening up to see who was stopping. He walked back to my Dad's window as my Dad asked if we could help, maybe give him a ride? His answer was that the problem seemed to be a broken fanbelt. 

He had relatives just up a dirt sideroad he explained, swinging his arm to point, He could just quickly walk up the road to get all the help he needed. The main problem to him, he did not have to explain to my Dad, but was not understood by me as I remained silent, was the car needed to be given a push of a few yards along the road. My Dad agreed to push his car, a thing he NEVER did with the "company" truck, which did get my attention.

I know it's hard to envision my being silent, but here adults were talking. And in TEXAS, at that time, if someone as young as I interrupted, he would not be sitting down to eat his supper, if indeed he got supper.

My Dad eased up and just touched the vehicle ahead, a thing that impressed me, and as the man drove the car, my Dad pushed it up a couple of lengths along the side of the grass along and off the pavement. Then he backed up a bit, and cut across the highway, checking both ways, I noted, into the off-road the young man had already begun to walk up to his relative's house. 

Then backing carefully out onto the highway as if to head back in the direction we had just come from, he asked me, "Son, you missed a sign didn't you?". Without really expecting my answer, which was only a silent head shake, denying my having misread a road sign, he cautiously circled around to once again head in the original direction of home.

He pulled over right in front of the city limit sign and stopped the truck. "Son," he said, "Read all the signs and understand them."

I read the sign twice silently until the truth, and understanding, reached my young brain. Then I read the sign aloud, hesitating a bit at the word I was not supposed to use, at least, not in public. 

Don't get me wrong, I had no idea we were "Passing", sort of, as no one in the family seemed to be aware of such a thing. And then as we were a bit Indian, and all us kids looking so different from one another, no questions were ever asked. One of us looked "English",with the typical crooked-set teeth and was born in England just at War's end. One looked very English-Irish-Typical American, having very black curly hair, and dark blue eyes. And one looked "Second Generation Indian-English-Irish", complete with eye-folds. My Dad was dark, even darker in summer's heat, but only dark enough to seem of Mexican or Indian admixture. Of course, there was Mom. A typical Berwick-Upon-Tweed Scotland Lass, with a brogh that no one in Texas could, without trouble, understand! It was like listening to a Mexican or Vietnamese just starting to speak English. Having learned it from someone raised in Jersey or New York, which to us TEXANS is much the same!

 I had no idea for many years that there were only two classifications during the World Wars I and II, for those inducted. Eithier you were classified as "colored", or "white". And that "stuck", even though later census taking. Unless you filed to change it. Not as in "Old Virginia" for instance, or worse, during the days of Walter A. Plecker. Now-a-days you are permitted to "self-identify" from a hundred choices printed upon a census form that you fill out. Yes, there is a place to fill-in a number for tri-racial, but I won't tell you it, due to the fact I/We don't use it (Yet), and it might be changed on the next form.

Had the "More-Than-One-Drop of African blood been known, or someone with an attitude had made a point of it, I would have had to attend the One Room Schoolhouse down the hill, literally, from the huge converted old stone four-story Women's College for the white children. With its newer added on open architecture brick Grade School Building. That is, after the death of the Objector.

The "Colored" school, with very little Whitewash paint left upon it's wooden walls was really two or three rooms, or what passed as such. Having One proper room with a teacher/ principal and then a room for the Office of the Superintendent/ principal/ teacher. At least that is what I was told, having never entered it's doors. The older children were bused to the County Seat to the Highschool. One I have never seen in all my years living in that County. A County where the Courthouse was burned down by a man with the same name as my Father-In-Law, who was completely innocent. And the real arsonist/murderer was soon caught.

A Black man was arrested for suspected rape of a White woman. This was before WWII. And to protect him from a mob of White men the Law locked him up, emptied the Courthouse, and armed with rifles and shotguns tried their best to disperse the mob and guard the life of their prisoner. But to no avail. Somone set fire to the Courthouse and the "suspect" was the victim of that horrific act! Then the mob went on a rampage of burning and; ... I cannot now remember my reading about this history. Perhaps further horrors were committed, such as hangings. I have read of similar stories, perhaps one in Oklahoma and other places, back when I studied the subject on my own to learn the truths that my educators skipped over. I could mix the History if I tell you what I'm not sure of. I'm typing all of this from memory tonight, Without notes or reference, as usual.

My brain is not as good as before. Old age creeped up on me and stabed me in the back. And too, perhaps such as this should be forgotten. But I hold that it should be remembered. All of it should. Perhaps not taught to younger minds. I'm not an educator. But finding out after I was grown that the reason many of the Courthouses in Counties, such as the one where I started School, was built just across the street from the old one that sat on the square proper, is due to its burning, And I suppose this is due to Plecker's action. The Nazi loved Plecker's idea to rid the world of undesirables and "Mud People" like me. And of course, the Rockefellers'' sponsored it in America.

One day you're a White man, married to a White woman. You have a Clerking job somewhere and making a living for the family that now includes three small children that depend Soley on you. You awake one morning, and you are a Black man, due to plecker's list. And the little wife is married to a Black man, which isolates her from family and friends. And puts you out of a job! No way you can be a Clerk for a White company handling the confidential information of the White public! But the worst thing is your children have to attend "The Littlt One Room Schoolhouse" at the bottom of the hill! Of course, too, you'll have to move to the "Colored" section of town, No way could your landlord rent that house to a "Colored" family! And seeing that you can't get them to change the records back, nor get at them yourself; someone in your shoes burned many a Courthouse in the Old South!

Don't worry! I've thought of a way to "read" the city-limits sign to you. Only so you won't be stupid all your life. I'm speaking here to non-African influenced here you see, because their education such as this isn't given at home as others are taught by parents to keep their children safe.

And here, in today's "Woke", and "Safe" world is what the meaning the sign conveyed.

"Sir, as the Authorities elected of this great City, we would like to thank you for shopping here. And to point out to you who are of a "particular Race and color, as "The Good Lord" made you, that you must know that we do have wonderful sunsets here. However. we insist that you take advantage of viewing the sunset every day out in the countryside, beyond our city limits, where the air is so much fresher, and breathable."

Naaa....The terror, threat, and old "Plantation" spirit has been lost in translation. Perhaps I can think of a better way as thinking more about this I might get an inspiration? 

Dan Bunch

TEXAS

 MY LINE OF CHEROKEE SAPONI BUNCH

 

JAMES BUNCH ?

HENRY BUNCH

PAUL BUNCH (FATHER OF MICAJAH BUNCH "KING OF MELUNGEON"

MARTIN BUNCH

WILLIAM GREENBURY BUNCH

SAM F. BUNCH

WALTER F. " DUDE" BUNCH

WALTER L. "GOOSE" BUNCH

DAN "Dirty Water" BUNCH

DARRON BUNCH

A SON BUNCH

What if your family had a secret? And what if one day you found out you were not who you think you are? Search "Melungeon" for an incredible adventure into Americas past! Find out where Hitler learned to deal with the "Unwanted" dregs of society! Are you one of the "Lost tribe of Isreal"? Didyour ancestor know the secret that the Knights Templar knew? Did Captain Cook kick your ancestor overboard onto these shores? Or were your ancestors one of the Pilgims, who stole the first corn they put into their mouths in this New World?

My name is Dan Bunch. I was born in Kansas, an Army "Brat". By birth, of Native American - Cherokee; Choctaw, and "Saponi"; African ancestry. Having Melungeon heritage. My mother was a naturalized citizen, a Scot born in Hong Kong. My father, a United States Army veteran of WWII, was born in Texas, a Cherokee-Choctaw-Melungeon. My particular family line, having its origin along the James River, includes Pamunkey/Saponi. And Paul Bunch, brother of Micajah Bunch; King of the Melungeon. 

I was totally ignorant of African and Melungeon heritage, spending my formative years in Whitewright, Texas, where I was exposed to the typical "White" American youth experience of; school; football, baseball, and boxing, and farm work. I enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve at the age of seventeen while still a junior in high school. Seeing the murder of a President caused me to get irate at the wrong people, the Communists. Not that they don't deserve all the hate the humanity of the world's population can muster.

I had a multitude of experience in the business world. I got lost working in stockrooms of a large world-wide corporation when just out of the U.S.Navy, in insurance sales, real estate sales, and in custom home building. I am now retired with my wife as country "Ranchers", and call myself a writer. I can attribute my interest in many subjects to an early career as a newspaper boy in my hometown of Whitewright, Texas. 

I married my high school sweetheart Gayle in 1965, a brilliant woman with a professional carreer in finance. We have two children and five grandchildren. I'm a graduate of Grayson County Jr. College, which I attended at night upon my return from active military service in Vietnam. In Vietnam I was a crewmember aboard U.S. Navy River Patrol Boats, seeing service in the Rung Sat Special Zone, and in the Delta. Experiencing many machinegun, rocket, and mortar engagements with the enemy, I got a "Ho-Che-Min"; awarded in the field, my Petty Officer chevron, and obtained the rank of Gunners' Mate Missiles Petty Officer Second Class. I'm a lifetime member of the DAV; and member of a Navy Veteran association. 

I was totally ignorant of my African and Melungeon heritage due to a blood oath taken by Great Grandfather Sam Bunch, not to tell anyone about the family past during his migration to Texas. Several families migrated from Tennessee amidst the diaspora undertaken by those of Great-Grandfather's generation. Melungeons, Native-Americans; mullotta; who suffered Mr. Walter Plecker's insane plans to exterminate those of African mulloto and Native American ancestry in VA. Walter Plecker's plan, soon adopted by Adolph Hitler, was the inspiration for the infamous "Final Solution".

Whitewright, Texas is famous for the uncovering of the thief, and recovery of, the "Mecklinberg Treasure". This priceless treasure of church antiquities, hidden from the Nazi in a cave during the occupation of World War II, disappeared while being guarded by American troops.

This Bunch family is Cherokee; Choctaw, Saaponi, and African influnced ancestry, a Melungeon heritage. The Cherokee/Melungeon/African line is traced through these names from VA, to TN, to TX; John Bunch; Paul Bunch; Martin Bunch (brother of Micjah Bunch, King of Melungeon); WilliamGreenbury Bunch; Sam Bunch; Walter Bunch; Walter Bunch; Dan Bunch. 

The Choctaw comes from my Grandmother, Ronda McNabb Bunch, Whose line comes through Germanna influnce of a Conrad Rubin Willhoit of Govenor Spottswood fame. Some of the famous Carpenter/Farmer Bunch ancestors would include; a Nobel Prize Winner; a U.S. Senator from Tennessee; as well as a host of Military officers, soldiers, thieves, forgers, murders, and spies, dating from before Jamestown; the indian wars; and serving the British long before the of independance. Melungeons served mostly in the Union Army during the Civil War, due to their treatment by their Southern neighbors. The men and women of the 

Bunch surname have contributed greatly to the military defense of the United States serving in all its wars. I can attribute my interest in many subjects to my love of reading and early career as a newspaper boy in my hometown of Whitewright, Texas. 

Whitewright, a then mean small town in North Texas having no library nearer than the County Seat, Sherman, Texas, twenty-five miles away. Excepting the High School library, a meager collection of reference and well -chosen books of American Classics that was devoid of anything lurid, spicy, or mature, "woke" and bawdy. A collection accessable to any year-round. But only by scaling the outside wall and sneaking in through an unlocked third story library window. Being absolutely horrible at retaning anything "taught" to me, including the multiplication table! I fed my insatiable thirst of trying to learn something of every subject by reading all the books in that small library. (I later learned about Dislexia. If your early reader asks, "What is this word," whenever he sees the words; who, whom, what, where; get the child checked by an expert, they can help, so the child won't have to "yell" what he reads silently to himself, within his own brain, as he copes.)

THE BUNCH STORY:

My family started, they tell me, as Danish. Then fled to Ireland because of religious persecution. These Irish Bunch's migrated to where Scotland is now. They invaded but found so much in common with the people of the area that they intermarried! Commonality in following the mother's line for instance, and that will be inportant later, when mingling with Native American.

These beutifull people are known in history as the "Pict". The Pict were the original people of the north end of the island of Britiania. Never defeated by the Roman Legions, who stopped to build Haddrians Wall, one of the important constuctions of the ancient world. The wall was to built for control of the commerce, and to keep the Pictish hoards out. During war the dark-skinned Pict fought male and female, side by side, totally nude! An amazing site with tattoos all over their bodies! The tattoos of the Pict are where we get the word "Picture".

After the Romans pulled out of Britania due to problems at home, (The Romans were auctioning off the office of Emperior) the Pict and other native peoples attacked the Norman-Saxon, who in?vaded from the Germanic continant and took over the land in the English South. The Pict were defeated when on the opening of the war their fleet of ships was destroyed in a huge storm!

The Norman-Saxon, who had tried for centuries to overcome the Romans and take possession of the land conqured the native peoples. But instead of killing them all off they intermarried with them! These dark native people, with their tattoos, were very beautifulll indeed, because the Royalty of the Norman-Saxon intermarried with the Royalty of the Pict.

Yes! The Pict Royalty, my Bunch Family, and the Royalty of England and Scotland were mixed race from the beginning almost. Actually they were Tri-racial! Irish; Pict; and Germanic! There was a Pict Royalty, a Princes, Married to a Bunch, or had the bunch name from birth. I forget which. The English Royal family changed it's name from Germanic to English/French during WWII, as Hitler invaded much of Europe. If you don't know at least that much, stop and learn some "real history", which geno is about mostly.

Yes, they Royal family of Britian is of mixed race! Had paintings in oil of the Royal family not been invented we would not have seen this then either. Beacuse it was, later of course, fashionable to show, paint, the subject as being very white! Challenge that if you must, but be prepared to accept the fact that the English ate human body parts and drank blood long before they came to America to accuse the Amer-indian of doing this "barbarous" act! 

Actually the Brititsh imported much of the human body parts they consumed as medicianal. Harvested from the battlefields of France!Then My Family of Bunch came to America. Here the names and places are very fuzzy. Did my family come from the "James Bunch..." traded land for passage"? It would seem the family experinced the same, some coming as indentured servants, who were treated much the same as African slaves, except that outright murder of the bonded servant was seen as un-Christian! 

Many bonded were taken out of prision and sold into bondage by the Monarch, to enrich and populate the New World, and to regain any expenses and or monies and fines owed the Crown by these prisioners. Some imprisioned voluntarily came as a way to avoid prision and death, and begain anew. Some begged for death instead of transport, as the "middle passag" experience and death was very high. While survival after brutal abuses was very low and disabling for many that did survive.

One of My Bunch Family bred with an African servant. None that were "White" of course would marry a bondwoman. They all wanted to better themselves, and the way to do that was mainly, by custom, though marrage. "Marrying up" as they say. Another way was to be a military hero, or perhaps be Knighted for some deed to the Monarchy. Not many heroes are born, so they usually looked to marrage to upgrade themselves in English society. If you came up one step on the social ladder you were a moving man, getting somewhere in society, if only your son could do that well, he might become a gentleman! Only later did Plantation owners learn how to cheat the bounded out of his promised land and freedom.

The pages on this site contain my impressions and my thoughts. I am responsible for the contents! I write. Not only do I write, but I think! I wonder what you think of my thoughts. How can I find that out, unless I have the freedom, within constraints of all applicable laws, to express my views and thoughts? Express them in a context, and in a forum, and in a medium, that will convey them to you? That is what this is! Freedom of expression! Nothing more. But nothing less! I did not earn that right. It was given me by my ancestors! I only claim it.

Have you ever had a nightmare that you suddenly were not you? What could be more intensive, or scary, if you for instance found out you were adopted? Wouldn't that cause you to have some questions that just needed to be answered? Where would you turn for the answers? What if your family heritage left behind by a Great Grandfather was purposefully a lie? A lie of oommission intended for you to pass on to your children and grandchildren! A lie formed to hide you from the United States Government in order to hide your ethnic origins and keep your children safe from those seeking to sterilize them or place them into a mental asylum! To chase them down, take custody of them, and then house and treat them, just because they said and believed that they were Native Americans! I found that my family suffered horribly from their version in time of the "Homeland Security" efforts! A program so well liked that Adolph Hitler's henchmen put it into practice to rid themselves of a similar "problem"!

For a wonderful, and awesomely inspiring true story of a people's struggle to overcome all degradation and persecution and discrimination to become "normal" citizens of America, start your journey into a self-discovery of the Melungeon! This will be the beginning of the most amazing, wonderful, inspiring, and exiting adventure into history you have ever been on, I guarantee it!  Search for Jack Goins blog of the Melungeon and Native American to begin your adventure into learning of the courageous and strong-willed Melungeon! Also get his books, which are highly regarded in the Melungeon research world.

YOU REEK A B.U.N.C.H.:)

Howdy,

My name is Dan Bunch. I would like to tell  you a story. It may be longer than intended, but it is about Bunch Geno, and Geno in general, so I think I can make it worth your trip.

My mom and dad died the same year, and worse still, that made me the "old man" of the family! Of course for lots of years the family of my Bunch have tried to determin who and what and where. Mostly though, we had lives to live, and there were no computers. 

I got tired of playing games, and designing homes, and such on the computer, after getting my son to start me off, and learning all the "how-to's", which ain't much help anyway if your dealing with windows, and I got to thinking I might just "find" us. That is, me and the family line. My dad remarried, so did mom, and I haven't much in the way of pictures and no paperwork at all, to start with. What I do have is my father's word. And I have found it to be very truthfull, surprisingly. And his handed down family gossip or things to be quietly studied? Anyway, I knew two things only; One: "We are Cherokee waaaay back." And Two: "We came from Maigs County, TN." That turned out to be Meigs county TN. But the Bunch's were never scholars. Well, not in my direct line anyway. These two items came to us from two sons that were born in TN before Sam Frazier Bunch migrated to Texas from TN. He somehow developed "lockjaw" on the way, and would never tell anyone anything about anything before his arrival in Texas. They say there was an "oath not to tell" taken by many at the time. So perhaps he did take an oath. If he did, he kept it. Typical for my Bunch family. That and fighting and a small bit of criminal behavior, mixed with loads of patriotisim.So with that, I started off pounding on the keyboard of my put together computer. I assembled it and updated it along the way. Then I traded up, finally I have a IBM laptop to deal with. This was about three years ago! 

The thinking here was I would zero in on my line, then chase the paperwork, not knowing that there would be little of it, and most of it inaccuarate to outright lies! This also was from necessity, this internet search. I got lost in it, and never recovered.

I typed in "Sam Frazier Bunch" and all its dirrevitives over months. Until one day up popped my whole dern family! Yep, I got lucky. Thanks to real geno's. Anne Failcowitz (url below) had done years of work and had been kind enough to post it on the web. I was astounded! The thing that really made me "zero" in on Sam was not his name, nor his migration, it was a posting in the Bunch Forum, that said, "If your folks never told you anything, you might be..." That turned out to be quite a learning experience, since I had never heard the word "Melungeon"! If our connection had been known, even in the late 60's, I would have had to go to the little schoolhouse down at the bottom of the hill. It only had two rooms and one principal/teacher with one other teacher, for the "coloreds". In Texas it is ok, even then to be a bit "indian", but not African, as they say, and I have never heard much otherwise, positive or negative, (Cept' Dad's gossip!)that we are or are not African. I am only taking the words and research of a realy great goup of researchers and Name-collectors.So I found out that I am indeed "Cherokee". That I come from the old Cherokee land of Meigs county TN. That I am supposed to be African influenced, and also Saponi. I have run a rough road. Among the latest, a well known researcher that is named Bunch, and lives on the Cherokee reservation that told me, among other things, that: "There are no African blood in the Cherokee Bunch line!" And; "There is no way that the Saponi, our sworn enemies, would be part of the Cherokee mix!" I  have no way to measure that statement, nor do I understand it from my much reading, this is beyond anything I have read. But I am indeed, it would seem, Saponi, and a Bunch, and a Cherokee (as the tribes assimilated; Pamunky), and a Melungeon, as the Bunch line of mine went to TN from VA and intermarried with those "tri-racial isolates" as some call them. This man heatedly denies and with name-calling, culls me out of any Cherokee, and indeed, Native-American blood. I told him "One day I will prove the connection, and then I will write you to show you that all that I was told and all that I have read and written is true."

Now I find this site of yours! And it seems to do the impossible. I have had to "collect" Bunch's from every source, to try to establish a connection between two major lines of bunch (I have seen three, perhaps four) that I have been following. I have worked with Anne Failcowitz to "kick" over stones, (I am quite good at that as a Name-collector) and sending them to Anne to work out the particulars and the lineage.Using the maiden names of the women in my line, I have tried to connect the two lines listed below with; McNabb; Wilson; Sneed; Drury; Graff; etc. And here you are, on  your site, with this connection! How wonderful! 

Now my question to you is; are you sure you want to stand behind this connection? And are you prepared for the fact that I have promised many, up to a thousand, Bunch and associated researchers, that if I found this connection that I would email them ALL to tell them where and how it is?This may cause you some work. It surely will cause questions, applause for your hard work, and more names to "meld" into your site than you ever imagined! As I am kin to many. The Bunch's, as you know, are kin to all the royalty in Europe, many Popes, many famouse people, and even one Nobel Prize winner, not to mention, Senators, spies, bad guys, patriots, Unionsoldiers (mine), and Southern soldiers (mostly yours:), farmers, hunters, trapers, murderers, and generally most of the surnames in the world, it seems at times. (none of which I have any paperwork to establish, only years of internet search and emails) I have tons of files on CD of Bunch's  and their spouses and stories galore that I have collected over the years. 

I have an idea, if you agree, that we should keep this email and its contents between just us two for the time being, until we can see if and how we "meld" into the two lines I am going to mention, and also, how I, meaning first person here,, "I" follow up my line, cross over to yours, (since I cannot establish my Cherokee connections yet, outside of your site) slide down my old granny's line, (she said she was Choctaw); Ronda Ruth McNabb Bunch; and find and establish my Cheorkee blood. 

This is for my son, and grandchildren, since he asked me to help him establish so he could file, as it would be a help to  him just now. And too, so we will not make a mistake in telling that the two lines do intersect. And too we then will not be leading the "real geno's" like yourself, down a muddy lane, but will be giving and posting positive real info, not a shotgun of misinformation. That is, if you agree. I sure would like to spill my compouter guts with you! I have files people have sent me, and files I have saved from the internet that may facinate you no end. Some you may have already, but we can compare notes! I am sorry to say that I have no direct connection to your one name, however I am said to be kin to;

Venable;Vardeman; Roy Acuff; Sneed the golfer; Babptist Mcnabb; bolling; brown; Powhatton; rolf; some of these I can not prove, and some I can, that is; proof of a computer internet source. One question is how Russ's ancestor of Dow Bunch fits in. Now I see there are two of them! Maybe that is why I could not help him so much? I do like to help people, that is why I have kept some emails of researchers. Health does not now permit my once ten hour days on the computer, and putting together a Bunch newsletter. Here then are the 'bone' a' fid' ais' that you might like to check on right now before writting me back.I was raised in Sulphur Springs TExas, hopkins Co. until the fourth grade. 

That is the area My bunch's came from and where two of the family of; Jack Oo-sar-nar-le Bunch, wife is Scraper, came to get married. (initials only) (I found jack in the mormon site, mislabeled as being from Italy, the country:)Jack and family of Jug, Rabbit, etc, are kin to "the other bunch line" you have put mine together with. The two lines I have been searching for, yours of 

English/Cheokee;

William Greenberry Bunch b MO d Mo m Leona Lewis

And My(our now:) line of Cheorkee/Saponi/Melungeon/Scot;

William Greenbury Bunch b TN d Civil WAr m Sidney Armstrong Kuntz 

Here are some Url's to help if you need them.I am truely thankful to you for your site and hard work, and am waiting with 

anticipation your return email.

Your buddy, and family kin,

dan bunch

tx

My line:

(Henry Bunch?)

Paul Bunch  (Paul Bunch sons are Samponi)

Martin Bunch (brother to Micajah Bunch, "King of Melungeon"

William Greenbury Bunch

Sam Frazier Bunch

Walter (Dude) Bunch

Walter Lee Bunch

Dan Bunch (full name and stats later:) yepper! I'm old!

                           My Bunch Family; One NA with eyefolds; One English; All Mixed Up :)

BUNCH FAMILY THE OFFSPRING OF PAUL BUNCH WERE ALL SAMPONI

 

Little Bird Learns To Fly  $450

Saponi town. Bunch is indeed one of the core surnames.  Search “Bunch” and you should have months of reading here. 

"the Bunch offspring of Paul; Bunch were all Samponi."

FINALLY; THE END OF CONFUSION

 FINALLY; THE END OF CONFUSION

(WHICH MEANS THIS IS MY CONCLUSION:)

MY Name, for critics to use; is Dan Bunch.  

(DN =DAN NOTE)

(Please excuse the spelling, I have a good excuse, and a Doctor's note:)

As one critic said to me years ago during a rant about a particular magazine article, ( In those days there was actually print on paper! Not just bits n' bytes:) "You just love to see your name up there, don't ya?""Well...yes, that's

the whole point!"

Being a self-ordained genius is not easy, but it is much harder if you have to defend yourself. In other words, the proof should be in the pudding!

This article is not meant to deride, nor say any author or researcher is wrong about any theory of where the "Melungeon" people came from. But instead, it is my conclusion to my study of the subject. Which, until now I have not voiced, nor written for publishing. 

First you want to be confident in your conclusions, based upon your correct information ingested, and your thought process is in line with your view of the world. (You have to live in the world and enjoy some of it's, sometimes shocking or cruel truths.)

By view of the world, I mean using your accepted logic. (there are thousands!) 

That is why they use "Public education" as a way to get everyone on the "same page", so to speak. So they can understand one another when working together at their chosen endeavors, be that "sweat" jobs, that earn very highly these days! "Blue Collar", which is for the most part "High Tech" today. Or Management, having a tuff time implmenting new "Woke" agendas within the workforce their "Boards" demand. 

Where-as the Elite get a "Private education", to seperate their little minds with a much different logic of "their world view".)

(DN: Mine is "Non-Aristolien Logic". Look that up for correct spelling and kicks:)

Then, after a long, in this case, years of running through books; articles; and the internet, as well as rechecking "facts", I waited for time to flow past, letting the controversy from people interested in this subject voice their opinions and argue their views and thoughts about about such a singular historical fact. One in which we were so affected. But in the end leaving us  with almost no mention except to say; "They existed - but how?

I thought my thoughts for a few years, waiting for a real researcher or investigator of history to develope anything approaching what I thought about the subject. After all, no shy person such as I wants to stir up controversy or end up with egg on their face, having to answer hundreds of emails from my betters. 

So I waited and used my time wisely. Reading about "Aliens" populating the planet with people having discriptions very similar to the "Melungeons" at discovery.

Waiting so as not to be labeled a "hieratic" and further aggravate someone to actually hang me from my own family tree. And I don't mean that less than literally! I now have a handle upon our subject (Which really means I finally have enough courage. Being very old has it's advantages, seen from my end of things.) to feel confidence in my thoughtfull studies,

There is a problem now however. Instead of just "copy and past" for your notes needed of ancient history, you have to deal with highly educated "Woke" individuals with low IQ. I am refering to my opinion of a certain website. Years ago I used it's wonderful pages of information to research many subjects, especially dealing with famous persons in history. But today, because of letting "Woke" editors from the public have the power to "add, edit or change", even deleating previous pages. We now have the ability to use the same search terms to find altered information; condensed down to one thin paragraph about a historical person as you run over the highlighted name with your mouse, and almost nothing about the sometimes cruel truth having to do with the main subject of the site!

In other words, it is, in my opinion, in the form now of "High-brow "Woke" Elitist Blueblooded" low IQ individuals working for Government. Each page now reads in fact like a travel broucher! (Laws won't allow me to mention URL in this context unless I want to spend money I ain't got on lawyers! :) 

It's all still there, but having no relation to the pure unaltered simple truth, easily grasped, and having the same flavor of truth in times of brutality of the human spirit.

The wording is used to draw your eyes and mind away from the, at times, murderous doings of the ancients. A distraction of "Places to visit and things to do" while you visit this neck of the woods. Yes, travel here to this land 

of 1,000 different kinds of wine, and whiterock caves growing the tastiest mushrooms in bat soil.

Ignore, if you can, your ancient family history about horrible bloodletting,

flowing like rivers to enrich the soil. Above all, you must be distracted from that, so you might see this government as brutal warlike savage rapists, plunderers, and thieves. Actually, there may not have been any government back then. But the powers that be don't like to be painted with the same brush. which is most likely done by those "dumbed down" and suffering from a "Public education" are want to do.

Now for you high-brows, a little copy n' past.

(DN = DAN NOTE)

Melun (French pronunciation: [m?lœ~], local pronunciation: [møl?~]is a commune in... 

History

Meledunum began as a Gaulish town; Caesar noted Melun as "a town of the Senones, (DN Senones = Gauls) situated on an island in the Seine"; at the island there was a wooden bridge,(DN: two bridges now serve, one on either side of the island. ) which his men repaired. [1] Roman Meledunum was a mutatio where fresh horses were kept available for official couriers on the Roman road south-southeast of Paris, where it forded the Seine. 

(DN:  interesting word; "Mutatio", isn't it?)

BUY FROM FANATICAL (DN: It was the "Geneiva" of its day, and for ages before history. )

The Normans sacked it in 845. The castle of Melun became a royal residence of the Capetian kings. Hugh Capet (See also: House of Capet) gave Melun to Bouchard, his favorite. In the reign of Hugh's son, Robert II of France, Eudes, the count of Champagne, bought the city, and the king took it back for the viscount in 999. Le Chatelain and his wife, who had sold the city, were hanged. Robert (DN: HUGH CAPET = ROBERT I?) died there in July 1031.

The région is a major tourist destination for international visitors. Of historical interest are the châteaus of Versailles, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet, Fontainebleau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, and Champs. A large Disneyland theme park in Marne-la-Vallée also is a significant tourist draw.

(DN: Another page, where context is everything. Sorry about what seems to be repetitive:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melun#History

The Normans sacked it in 845. The castle of Melun became a royal residence of the Capetian kings. Hugh Capet (See also: House of Capet) gave Melun to Bouchard, his favorite. In the reign of Hugh's son, Robert II of France, Eudes, the count of Champagne, bought the city, but the king took it back for Bouchard in 999. The chatelain Gautier and his wife, who had sold the city, were hanged; Eudes escaped. Robert died there in July 1031.

In July 1415, Melun was besieged by King Henry V of England, who had recently signed the Treaty of Troyes with King Charles VI of France. The town was in the hands of the Dauphin, later Charles VII of France, who had been dispossessed by the treaty. The defenders were led by Arnaud Guillaume, seigneur de Barbazan, and fought off the besiegers for fourteen weeks before capitulating.[6] The town was liberated by Joan of Arc on 17 April 1430.

(DN: And it ends like this. Only within the article, moreso. :) 

The région is a major tourist destination for international visitors. Of historical interest are the châteaus of Versailles, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet, Fontainebleau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, and Champs. A large Disneyland theme park in Marne-la-Vallée also is a significant tourist draw.

(DN: By the way, I can quote parts exactly in order to discuss the article, but nothing else. This "Dumbing Down" makes it read like a Chinese travelogue.)

(DN: What they left out, from my reading long ago)

England and France were at war. A treaty, which is the ultimate end to all wars, let the English stop where they were, and own the part of France they had won. Including the isle of Melun.

King Robert I gave it to a friend. A man placed in charge and his wife took it when England was weakened by a distraction. They made themselves King and Queen of Melun Island. That made the rightful King mad! Then they "sold" their island Kingdom. The King of England died, "Long live the King!"

His son, the King, got much angrier! He sent an army to take it back. This took a while, as it is a fortified island. But it finally fell. The victors rode in and promptly hung the usurpers from a bridge.

 

Now that was short and sweet. My rendition due to not finding my files from long ago. But wait! something was mentioned, but not expounded upon, of the "Buyer" Eudes escaping! But how? Where to? Who else escaped?

Well we will have to use ny remembered reading of years past. By the way, did I tell you I am a genious? :) Well, that's pretty much the way my old brain works these days, due to my many medical problems:) But that is what we have to depend upon as that part seems to be missing from today's travelogue. 

Ok. to quit fooling around; the "Buyer", Eudes, of the real estate known as Melun skeedadled. But not by himself! The son of the "Sellers", that is, "Party of the first part", put three or four ships into shape. These ships, loaded with people, but not much food, as that was in short supply after such a long siege, escaped and sailed somehow by sailing down river past English waters, and out into open seas!

(DN: Wait for it;...) And dissapered from history! Where did they go? No one knows.

What happened to them? No one knows.

Maybe they all sunk in a storm? Maybe that became "The lost tribe O,Isrial? 

or maybe taken by Pirates and sold as slaves? After all, one of Caeser's most loyal divisions of troops were men from North Africa, which surely intermarried during years spent trying to work out terms during peace talks at Melun. A role that Melun has played for generations before Caeser, and generations after.

As a matter of fact, Melun also later became a hub of airplane engeneering and flight during a couple of World Wars or more. 

The Englishmen who found some strange people after the first war with the indians of Virginia, were Adventerous, well educated, from well-connected families. Well-traveled, and very educated. To the point of speaking several languages, including latin, and knowing much of history of Kings, wars, and lands gained and lost from wars, and through treaties. These were no ordinary men. That is to say Ordinary Seaman or some other bold men. These were, for the most part "Second Sons". Sons of "Well To Do" families. Having no chance of inheratance of Castles nor "Freeholds", which by English law and custom go to the "First Born" male. But being in that position, given liberal educations, schooled in the arts, such as music; dancing; poetry, (DN: Very important in the far East, even today!.

It's time to look back at my studies to better understand what these men might have been thinking at the time. And by doing that, you may come to believe as I do. They had it right. But viewing it from our "Pudding Headed" Educators, we

may have seen it from a scewed education. Time to Copy n' Past...using my method of study.

13-letter words that end in geon

psychosurgeon

12-letter words that end in geon

supersurgeon

neurosurgeon

11-letter words that end in geon

cryosurgeon

10-letter words that end in geon

curmudgeon

chirurgeon

9-letter words that end in geon

habergeon

8-letter words that end in geon

sturgeon

bludgeon

bourgeon

smidgeon

trudgeon

7-letter words that end in geon

surgeon

dungeon

dudgeon

gudgeon

burgeon

widgeon

6-letter words that end in geon

pigeon

wigeon

(DN: I did not make this next stuff up! It's so cool and fits in so well I have to make this note:)

Etymology

From Middle English yon, from Old English geon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare English yon and German jener.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [jon]

(North Northern Scots, Orcadian) IPA(key): [j?n]

(Shetlandic) IPA(key): [j?n]

Adjective

yon (not comparable)

that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)

Pronoun

yon

that one person or thing, etc.

those

Adverb

yon (not comparable)

yonder, over there, further away

thither, to that place

Derived terms

yonwey (“yonder way”)

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ju?. Compare Kazakh ??? (jün, “wool, fur, feather”).

Noun

yon

Did you get that first line? "from Old English geon"? And do you remember we are told those strange people spoke Cherokee; old English, one generation out of favor; and another language none of the Englishmen, nor the indians with them knew.

It could have been any language on this Earth, but certainly not Germanic; Dutch; Turkish; Latin; nor Arabic, or Israeli, because that would have been understood. How about Swahilli (SP), a South African language? Nope, although not enumberated here, I'll bet some African slaves were along and would have 

"picked up" on these people useing most African Languages.

Yep! I have come to the conclusion. I do think it was and is just that simple. "These people are from 'way over yonder', speaking and living as if they are from Ancient Melun, "Back in the time", before Robert II took the island back for England! "You remember those people that took ship and dissappeared? This must be them!"

Putting thought into the evidence they gathered, just as we just did, and inputting learned history, they made an educated guess! They could have been wrong.

"Yes. Way back in time; Way over yonder; From Melun...."Melungeon"!

(DN: "Non-Aristoleon Logic" is a made-up term by the Arthur of a famous SI-FI book written long before you were born. Which basically states, "The murderer is the one who did it. :)