According to Tim Hashaw’s book \u201cThe Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown\u201d:<\/p>\n
The African Cumbo family first appeared in Jamestown documents in September 1644 and they, too, survived and traveled far from the colony over many generations. \u00a0That year, the Virginia House of Burgesses ruled Manuel Cambow was a Christian Servant and ordered that he was to serve as other Christians in indenture. \u00a0He was freed in September 1665 and, two years later, was granted fifty acres in James City County.<\/p>\n
Emanuell Cambow’s descendants\u00a0lived on as free people of color\u00a0and intermarried\u00a0with\u00a0whites and Native Americans throughout the Virginia and coastal North Carolina areas through the colonial period of America.\u00a0As a result, over successive generations, many\u00a0Cumbo\u00a0family branches either maintained black or mixed race identities, passed as white (Melungeon or Portuguese) or fully embraced Native American (Lumbee or Tuscarora) identities.<\/p>\n
Included in the link below\u00a0is a list of\u00a0 17th century Mixed Blood families from which Most Mixed Ethnic Groups, of Early Virginia Records descend.<\/p>\n
See the Cumbos in the following sections: \u00a0“Common Mixed Blood Surname List” (black\/mixed race) and “Melungeon and Melungeon-related surnames” (white) \u00a0and “Lumbee\/Croatan Indian” (Native American). Cumba, Cumbaa, Cumbee, Cumbo, Cumboe, Cumbow<\/p>\n
Ethnic Racial Isolates: Mixed Blood Surnames<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n