I have ancestors here early in Jamestown and ancestors on the Mayflower, so I guess I qualify.
My German immigrant ancestor arrived in the 1760’s. The Scots Irish component in the 1820’s. The Cherokee and Lenape (Delaware)? Probably something like 12k BC. That ought to be heritage enough.
Dittos to that ... I have seen gravestones in upstate NY with my family name on them with dates in the early 1700s.
With that little bit of trivia tucked away in my brain I always stump some idiot spouting the ‘we are a nation of immigrants’ crap when I ask ‘at what point does my family lose the immigrant tag?’
My mom traced our lineage back to the 1600’s. They worked as indentured servants to payoff passage.
My ancestors came later, but pre-civil war. Two penniless kids, a brother and sister, walked from Kidwelly, Wales to an English port and boarded a ship that took them to Nevis, a Caribbean island where he cut down trees before the slaves arrived to plant sugar. She was a Spinner.
They got paid nothing, but at the end of a few years, they were dropped off on a beach in North Carolina.. NC was on the southern side in the Civil War
IFriends agree that our family should be paid reparations for slavery.
Me too. Roger Tyrell and Abagail Ufford, Boston, 1632 on the second Puritan fleet.