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Author: RobertaEstes13
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Hatteras Island DNA Projects
Hatteras Island is a very unique place with an incredibly interesting history and
geography as well.
. Hatteras Island is the location where the Lost Colonists indicated that they went, to
join their friends, the Croatoan Indians.
. Hatteras Island has a long history of shipwrecks, with many families carrying the oral
history that they descend from shipwreck victims.
. Hatteras Island has an equally long oral history that many of the current residents
descend from the original residents, the Croatoan (later the Hatteras) Indians.
. Early records confirm his history in various ways. For example, by 1710, the Farrows,
O'Neals, Hoopers and Wahabs were reported to be "half Indian and half
English".
. The isolated geography of Hatteras Island served to discourage a lot of movement to the
island after the initial land grants were awarded and free/cheap land was no longer
available.
. The isolated geography prevented or discouraged intermarriage with people not island
residents, creating a rather closed community, allowing us the unique opportunity to
reconstruct the original island residents from their descendants today.
I have compiled a list of early island surnames from deeds, wills, tax lists, militia and
other documents. These surnames represent the early island residents up through about
1800. We would like to be able to reconstruct the ethnicity of the earliest island
families, especially the wives whose surnames have been lost to time. Using DNA, we will
be able to reconstruct those families and help people who cannot identify their
ancestors' families to reconnect.
Allen, Austin, Ballance, Barret, Barrett, Barnett, Barnet, Bailes, Burgis, Beckley,
Balance, Basnet, Basnett, Basnight, Baum, Bennett, Bennet, Black, Burton, Bright, Brooks,
Burras, Burrus, Carr, Callahane, Callahan, Casey, Cirk, Clark, Dahoe, Dailey, Davis,
Dring, Duncan, Durant, Elks, Etheridge, Evans, Fulcher, Farrow, Flower, Gallop, Garrish,
Guthrie, Gaskill, Gaskins, Gibbs, Goodin, Gray, Howard, Hooper, Jarvis, Jackson, Jennett,
Jennette, Jennings, Johnson, Johnston, Jonston, Jones, Keito, King, Kirk, Lewis, Lindsey,
Lindsay, Love, McCoy, Maccoy, McDearmid, MacKuen, Macuing, Mann, Masque, Mashue, Maskue,
Matham, Meekins, Midget, Midgett, Midyett, Midyet, Miller, Nelson, Norton, Neal, Neel,
Oliver, Oden, O'Neal, O'Neel, Oneal, Oneel, Paumer, Palmer, Penney, Payne, Paine,
Pinkham, Price, Palmer, Peele, Pugh, Quidley, Quidly, Reed, Read, Relfe, Robb, Robertson,
Rollison, Rollinson, Russell, Sanderson, Scarborough, Scarboro, Simpson, Stiring,
Stirling, Styron, Smith, Salter!
, Spencer, Spenser, Squires, Stewart, Stow, Stowe, Taylor, Tolson, Toleer, Toler, Van
Pelt, Vanpelt, Wahab, Wallis, Wallice, Whedby, Whidby, Whedbee, Whedbe, Williams, Willis,
White, Wells
If your Carr family descends from Hatteras Island families and you have a male who carries
that surname today available to test (or who has already DNA tested), please join our
Hatteras Fathers DNA project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/HatterasFathers/default.aspx
If your maternal Carr line, meaning your mother's mother's mother's line, on
up the tree through women only on the maternal line extends back to Hatteras Island
residents, you are eligible to join our Hatteras Mothers DNA project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/HatterasMothers/default.aspx
If you are descended from Hatteras Island residents through any of your genealogical
lines, and you have taken the Family Finder test, please join our Hatteras Family Finder
project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Hatteras-Families/default.aspx
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