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In reply to the discussion: How did you get here? [View all]frogmarch
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to New England in the 1600s during the Great Migration. One of the families, John & Elizabeth Cogswell and all but one of their children, an adult daughter, came over on the ship Angel Gabriel, which sank off the coast of Maine during a hurricane. The Cogswells survived and settled in Ipswich MA.
John and Elizabeth Cogswell were also ancestors of American presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and of British princes William and Harry through their mother, Diana.
My dads maternal ancestors were French and German and arrived in the U.S. from Alsace-Lorraine in the early 1800s.
My mothers paternal ancestors were English and her maternal ancestors Indian and Portuguese. My mother was born in India and never left. I was too, but I came to America on a WWII U.S. troop transport ship when I was about a year old.