Posted on 11/28/2014 8:01:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
No, that was my fathers line.
They were about the same time as you said - Out of Rotterdam, then London, then Staten Island in 1699: John Vannoy.
In my mothers case it was earlier, and they were English from York; but they too started out on Staten Island in 1681.
Must have been land availability or lack of it in New York.
I am thankful Julia, that Oncle Yankel was properly invited here from the USSR. I am also thankful he was not accompanied by 3500 other Yankels who made it over the Southern Border the night before. Thankful too am I, that there are not "11 million" other uninvited Yankels wandering about the US.
Ms. Ioffe, you and Onkle Yankel are now free to resume kissing and caressing Obama's gluteal regions while he recreates in this country the very conditions The Good Yankel was attempting to escape. Thanks too for writing in English.
Saying that immigration should not be checked is like surrendering sovereignty.
Actually, because the law is so simple, I think we're all well informed.
And...lectures from last-minute Americans such as this wench make me less, not more open to immigration.
My first English ancestors arrived in Winthrop’s Fleet to MASS in 1630
Not immigrants it was just like going from TN to GA...
Free friendly skies and roads now..free seas then..
:)
actually there was still lots of land in Manhattan and still farmed at that time..
The Bowery used to be Dutch farms..Dutch for farm
go home.....
“And...lectures from last-minute Americans such as this wench make me less, not more open to immigration.”
Agreed. I think a moratorium on immigration for the next 2 years at a minimum goes without saying. And a frapping wall on the Mexican border with cameras, lasers, dogs, drones, etc.
I just shopped in our local K-Mart for the first time in years. All the announcements were being made in Spanish. (This was in the Florida Keys).
Speaking the common language is embracing the dream.
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