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Does your average American (especially from the north, ranging from Minnesota to Maine), somewhere down the line, come from the original 13 colonies!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I don't think so, as these were probably swamped by later waves of immigrants and slaves!. Don't forget that a big chunk of people from the 13 colonies left too, as Loyalists!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You will find most of your "direct descendants" of people from the original 13 colonies actually IN the original 13 colonies themselves!.!.!.!.!.!.!.not in Minnesota!.

Families tend to stay close to where they came from, even after 200 years!.

Especially in the South!.!.!. Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia!.

A lot had to do with how the colonies were settled!. Northern colonies were more townships and communities surviving by trade and merchants!. The Southern colonies were farming communities!.!.!.!.spread out and less populated, needing the land for crops!. Towns were much smaller!. Families much closer!.

It was the Northern colonies that had the harbors!.!.!.!. New York and Boston!.!.!.that saw the MOST immigration from Europe, England and Ireland!.

And no, the typical American of today doesn't have a descendant from the original 13 colonies!.

You forget, the largest migration of the US came AFTER the American Civil War!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.where THOUSANDS of descendants of the original 13 colonies DIED!.

To find real descendants from the original 13 colonies your best bet is Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Rhode Island, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia!.!.!.!.which ARE original 13 colonies!.!.!.!.not just New England!.

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Sofia!.!.!.!.the population of the midwest came at a MUCH later time, after the American Civil War, from the huge migration of Europe after the war!. Minnesota really IS hugely Scandinavian from this migration!. Michigan and Illinois DOES has a huge French history LONG before they were states and NOT from the 13 colonies!.
You are assuming Americans were the ones that populated these other areas!.
Tennessee came from the growing boundaries of North Carolina, but it wasn't an original colony!.
Kentucky's great distillers came from Scotland!.
Delaware was a New Sweden!.
It wasn't the "settled Americans" that moved WEST!.!.!.it was the NEW settlers that moved west!.!.!.!.NOT the descendants of the original colonies LIKE Georgia, LIKE Massachusetts, LIKE Virginia!.
Indiana DID have a Quaker upstart from the Southern States but this was at the time of the Civil War!.
That is why the Northeastern cities!.!.!.Boston, New York, Philadelphia, etc!.!.!.became so large!. Their first settlers STAYED there!.!.!. and just added the NEW settlers!.
They didn't move west!.
Neither did the agri-communities of the South!.

It was the new migrations of Europe long after the original 13 colonies that populated the areas west of the Appalachians Mountains with a MINOR sprinkling of an original settler here and there!.

Regular travel of people from the East Coast to the West Coast is a rather NEW developement!. We didn't even have a highway you could travel on between the two places until the 1940's!
So!.!.!.!.no, I am sorry!.!.!.!.!.the "typical American" is NOT a direct descendant of someone from the the original 13 colonies!.!.!.!.you have to go BACK to the original 13 colonies to FIND these descendants!.!.!.they are still where they came from! MInus a few here and there, like myself, or through marriage, change of jobs!.!.!.!.but this is ALL VERY recent activity!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I guess it depends on whether you're just talking about people whose ancestors were here during the colonial times!. If you're asking if most people have ancestors who once live in one of the 13 colonies the answer is almost certainly yes when you consider how many immigrants came through Ellis Island in New York!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am a decedent from William Bradford, and I am from Connecticut!.

Alot of people I know have their ties to people from the original 13 colonies, so yes I would say average Americans in the North come from the original 13 colonies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most Americans probably do, unless their family didn't arrive in the U!.S!. until after the American Revolution!.

I am related to Confederate Army General Robert E!. Lee, and he originally came from Virginia, which was one of the original 13 colonies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com