Mitsawokett: The "Moors" of Delaware

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The Tri-Racial Isolate Communities of Delaware & So. New Jersey

"The term"tri-racial isolates" is distasteful today, but its existence is part of history that we must recognize....

"As details have fallen together, it has become apparent that the isolate groups are, in fact, remnant Native American communities that have remained outside the official system of recognized tribes." (Ned Heite)

The following 6 papers are part of one large web page:

Delaware's Invisible Indians Part I. by Dr Louise Heite

Delaware's Invisible Indians Part II. by Edward Heite

Searching for Invisible Indians: Finding Assimilated Indian Populations.... by Edward Heite

Mitsawoket, the Community on Pumpkin Neck (and Biographical Directory).

Bloomsbury. Introductory Remarks. Discoveries in Duck Creek Hundred. by Edward Heite

Isolates Communities by Ned Heite

Racial Islands by Elizabeth Pollard

Racial Islands by Rick Gildemeister

The Moors of Delaware: A Look at a Tri-Racial Group (author unknown)

Gouldtown (New Jersey) Ebony magazine, Feb. 1952

Colleagues of Ned Heite address mixed-race communities of the Eastern U.S.

Articles describing Cheswold and the Delaware “Moors”

True Story of the Delaware Moors Philadelphia Press 1 Dec 1895

Delaware’s Forgotten Minority --The Moors Delaware Today, Jan 1972

Kent County’s Moors Times, Philadelphia, May 9,1892

Train Whistle Recalls Cheswold Of Past Wilmington Morning News 4 Sep 1967

Moor Says His People Started ‘Big Thursday’ Wilmington Journal-Every Evening, 13 Aug 1959

Cheswold: Home Town Of Senator J Caleb Boggs Wilmington Evening Journal 11 Feb 1961

Memories Have Replaced Industry in Town That US 13 Passed By (unknown newspaper)

The Moors of Delaware monograph by Donald V.L. Downs, 10 Aug 1960

The So-Called Moors of Delaware by George P Fisher, Milford Herald, 15 June 1895

The Moors of Delaware: A Look at a Tri-Racial Group (author unknown)

He Bought the Plane Before Lessons by Deedie Kramer, Evening Journal, Wilmington, Del, October 30, 1967

More About Moors:

Another View - The Moors of Delaware

The Melungeons "Traditions still persist that the Melungeons were descendants of the ancient Phoenicians who migrated from Carthage to Morocco, whenced they crossed the Atlantic before the American Revolution and settled in North Carolina."