the 330 years since my mother’s ancestors set up camp on Staten Island
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Huguenots ???
they would have probably fled from France into England and were sent here by the monarch, either becoming Englishmen while they waited in London or Bristol or shortly after arriving..
BTW any English born ancestors who arrived before 1776, were not immigrants but just moving to another part of England..
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.