My Palatine German ancestors Johann Georg Kast and Annas Margaretha Fag/Feck arrived in 1710
Queen Anne sent 3,000 of them to the Albany, NY area in1709-11 to cut down pine trees to make pitch and tar to seal Enlish navy wooden ships..
however it was too cold for that particular tree it grew in the carolinas...
My ancestor Johann fought in that war in 1711, Queen Anne’s War..against the French and indians...
with 3,000 arriving early like that and more later then yes they would have many descendants...
My ancestors came over in about the 4th or 5th boat to arrive on our shores. They came from England. Two of my antecedents were in the 1st and 2nd Houses of Burgesses.
Ah, another FReeper with ancestors from the Palatinate! My patrilineal descent traces to a Jacob Yetter (probably the spelling was Englished from Jetter, expecially considering we know a Jetter family who also traces their ancestry to the Palatinate) who came through the port of Philadelphia in 1763. I’m not sure whether I’d have ticked the German box or the American, probably German since my maternal grandmother is of East Prussian ancestry, and I also had some Alsastian ancestors. Of course, I also have Scots (both Highland and Lowland), Scots-Irish, and English ancestors, and physically take after my svartnorwegian far mor much more than any of my other recent ancestors.