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Sneedville, Tennessee
Sneedville is a town in Hancock County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,387 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Hancock County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕
==History==
European-American settlement began in the 1790s,〔Will Thomas Hale and Dixon L. Merritt, ''(A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans, Vol. 3 )'' (Lewis Publishing Co., 1913), p. 794.〕 as migrants moved into the area from the Piedmont frontiers of Virginia and North Carolina. Such migrants had formed families in colonial Virginia. Among them was a multi-racial group of settlers who became known as Melungeon. They have been documented as having primarily European and sub-Saharan African, with a lesser amount of Native American ancestry.
The county historical society asserts that French traders noted encountering the Melungeons in the late 1600s in the area that is now east Tennessee. Such early settlement is not supported by the work of Edward Price, a cultural geographer, who wrote a 1950 dissertation on the Melungeons;〔Price, Edward T. (1953). ("A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States" ), ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 43 (June 1953): 138–155, accessed 18 February 2013〕 Dr. Virginia DeMarce, a professional genealogist;〔(DeMarce, Virginia E. (1992). "'Verry Slitly Mixt': Tri-Racial Isolate Families of the Upper South – A Genealogical Study" ), ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 80 (March 1992): 5–35, scanned online, Historical-Melungeons, accessed 18 February 2013〕 and Paul Heinegg, a genealogist,〔(Paul Heinegg, ''Free African Americans in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware and Maryland'' ), 1999–2005〕 who have documented the migration of ancestors of the first families known as Melungeon from Virginia and North Carolina in the late eighteenth century.
Sneedville was originally known as "Greasy Rock." When Hancock County was formed from parts of Hawkins and Claiborne counties in the 1840s, Greasy Rock was chosen as the county seat. The town was renamed in honor of William Henry Sneed (1812–1869), an attorney from Knoxville who helped defend the new county when several residents sued in an attempt to block its creation.〔William G. Cook, "(Hancock County )," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: 18 February 2013.〕
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