[GrandEagle]

So... I suppose his choices were to be dead or in jail?
It is difficult to imagine that the folks over there are our ancestors. Easily explains why we broke away.

[Twinkie]

As John Wayne would say, "Yup."

[Godebert]

"It is difficult to imagine that the folks over there are our ancestors."

The folks over there today might be distant cousins.....but certainly not our "ancestors". Our ancestors of English blood had the good sense to boot the gun-grabbing British from America back in the late 18th century.