i move to strike from the lead i also move to strike the entire last paragraph of the lead genealogical researchers have documented that ancestors of many lumbee families were part of a tri racial isolate group of predominantly african and european ethnicity originating among individuals free in colonial virginia most such free african americans were descended from unions between white women servant or free and african men servant free or enslaved although relationships across racial lines were tolerated among the servant class in early colonial days virginia officials later moved to outlaw them in the mid s the free colored families of virginia migrated together with other european colonists into the interior of north carolina researcher paul heinegg noted numerous families identified as mulattos many with characteristically lumbee names in the tax lists for bladen county from which robeson county was formed heinegg found no nuclear families listed as indian in the censuses all free people of color were listed under other free