Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Melungeon \Me*lun"geon\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]langer to mix,
   m['e]lange a mixture.]
   One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of
   Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early
   intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North
   Carolina the

   {Croatan Indians}, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost
      colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now
      legally recognized as distinct.