The population in Pre-Revolutionary Colonial America was pretty small (2+ million?).
I’ve read that most people who have ancestors in Colonial America are cousins. Even more likely among those of us whose ancestors share a last name, although I’m not sure that the prominent Catholic Carroll family of Maryland is connected to the South Carolina Carrolls with their apparent William of Orange Protestant roots. Much as I’d like to claim them. Likewise I’ve got Lee ancestors in Colonial North Carolina, even a Robert Lee, but if there’s any connection to the famous line up in Virginia’s Northern Neck I’ve never seen it.
Dan Morgan’s one of my favorites, too. And Nathanael Greene. The Revolutionary War gets neglected in American history, the Southern Campaign especially so, even though it is in the south where the war was won.
Wouldn’t it be fun if a bunch of us got Trump to bring back Colonial history to the schoolrooms of America? Wow!