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GOIN, Melungeon, Claiborne County

GOIN, Melungeon, Claiborne County

Posted: 26 Feb 2015 3:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GOIN
Hello,
Here are some friendly notes of mine:
Richard Bradley Bonds


"GOIN" is possibly English, or Irish; or French/Huguenot (i.e., "GUION"); or Norman/French. Also, in another way, GOIN, linguistically, is directly from GOUIN and GOUIN is a place, a people, and a language in West Africa (in what is now Burkina Faso). From "GOUIN," historic routes of migration were southward to the Portuguese Gold Coast area. Portuguese ships traded from there to Virginia in the 1500s and 1600s. Free black West Africans could have sailed on slave ships, aside from the slaves as well, or even possibly indentured. The first unknown GOIN in Virginia could have been a free black West African in the 1500s - 1600s. Also, there is Sub-Saharan African DNA heritage in the GOIN family Melungeon research. GOIN is a recognized Melungeon surname in northern East Tennessee in the region that includes Claiborne County. Melungeon is so-called "Black Dutch" or "Portugee." My grandmother, Della Mae Goin, called her "cousins" "Black Dutch." She was Elijah's granddaughter (see above Elijah Goin mulatto slander lawsuit). Although, she related the old, old marriage of an English Goin man to a Spanish woman, rather than the Portuguese narrative. There actually was a very, very early Spanish expeditionary and fortified settlement presence. Melungeon is distinct tri-racial mixed white, black, and Indian. GOIN was recognized sometimes as "free persons of color" and sometimes as "mulatto."
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