Okay, if we’re divvying it up on the basis of who was here first — I win. 1585 and already here to greet them. Granted, I’d have to share it with a few hundred thousand other descendants, but I figure the rest of you will have to make other arrangements. Go ahead, Barry. I personally can’t wait for the legal precedent this one sets. We’ve been really nice about sharing, but if we’re gonna’ call dibs, my ancestry trumps most everyone else from the Mississippi East and down through the Carolinas to the Florida border. Spain and France can take Miami and New Orleans and Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California and the Plains Tribes get the Midwest. Looks like the rest of you are pretty much out of luck. Sorry, so bad, so sad. ;-)
Could you read that over and maybe supply more about your ancestry? It's interesting!
Thanks for your good remarks.
Newcomer.
One of my ancestors was a Spaniard who settled in San Juan, Puerto Rico (the oldest European settlement under the U.S. flag) before 1530.
And the 1587 Roanoke settlement that included Virginia Dare’s parents was the second such settlement, the first having come in 1585. The 1585 expedition stopped in western Puerto Rico on the way to North Carolina, where another ancestor of mine, Spanish Governor Diego Menendez de Valdes (an Asturian, and cousin of Juan Menendez de Aviles, the founder of St. Augustine, FL), allowed residents to trade with the Englishmen who needed supplies for the rest of their voyage.
But it’s okay, I’ll let you stay. : )