On my Father’s side of the family, my namesake ancestor arrived from France as an indentured servant at a fort on the frontier of western Virginia in 1774 and by 1775 was in a militia company that ended up at Yorktown with Washington in 1781.
On my Mother’s side my British soldier ancestor captured in 1777 was also an ancestor of William Kellogg who founded the Kellogg Company that makes corn flakes.
Great family history, and something to be proud of. I never knew any of my grandparents. I discovered the majority of info on my mother’s side of the family in Canada in 1991, the year after she passed.