[exDemMom]

I have at least two ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, and one who was in Jamestown, my last name traces to a settler in New Netherlands in 1664, but none of those lines seem to have married aboriginal Americans.

I call a lot of people newcomers, since every branch of my family traces back to people who arrived in the 1600s (Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies) and their American ancestors usually don’t go back very far. But your roots predate mine! Wow! You and I might be related, too.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Two of my grandparents, my mother’s father and my father’s mother, were descendants of 19th Century Irish immigrants, so I am at least half newcomer, but I do not particularly consider myself Irish. I am about as white and as American as it is possible to be.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

BTW, my 6th-great grandfather was a militia Captain in the Revolutionary War, and his son, Nathan, my 5th great- was in the Continental Army, and fought at Saratoga.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59677024/elisha-cole