On his mother’s side, yes.
Yeah I’m ten generation (family came to New England in 1630) and was reading something on the Family I had one of Kerry ancestors of my ancestors being founding members of some church in the 1600’s...
Funny thing is I’m from an old New England family but we’re more “Swamp Yankee” (working class Yankee redneck) and far from rich “Blue Bloods” types as you can get
My father’s family moved from New England out to Compton California in 1914 as Dairy Farmers .. Compton / Gardena was all the dairy farm area at the time