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The Mystery Man In 1690, French traders found a settlement in southern appalachia that belonged to the melungeons, mysterious group of people with olive skin and usual facial features who live in log cabins. They were never seen again, until 1784 when Hancock County was visited by John sevier, who discovered a colony of people who appeared to have European features despite their darker skin. They eventually spread out to other parts of the country where they were largely mistreated but nobody knows where they came from In 1690, French traders unexpectedly came across a mysterious settlement in southern Appalachia. They reported that the people there lived in log cabins and had unusual olive skin and facial features reminiscent of Europeans. Since they resembled the North African merchants that the French had done business with in Europe, they assumed they had stumbled on a colony of Moors. Nothing more was heard of the strange settlers until 1784, when the frontiersman John Sevier visi