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 dont go back very far. But your roots predate mine! Wow! You and I might be related, too.
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.
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.
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