Both sides of my family, the Foxwell and the Parks families were early settlers in the Richmond colony in the mid 1660s. I am a settler, not an immigrant. I am of settler stock as much as any people who came to this land to settle it and build a culture.
Ann is absolutely and completely correct.
I’ve got a lot of Virginia ancestry, primarily Jamestown, but do have one from the vicinity of Richmond. Surname variously spelled Faure/Foree/Fore/Ford under the loose spelling of the era, it morphed over time and in different branches. French Huguenot, settlement was Manakin Towne, west of present-day Richmond, on the James River.
None of my ancestors arrived after the Revolutionary War, the one Johnny-come lately was German-speaking from Alsace, 1738. Earliest European was 1610, Jamestown. Then, there’s the smattering of Indian wives from the frontier era in the NC backcountry.