'It was four hundred years ago today that the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth,

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5. My ancestors.....

....were a jumbled bunch of Eastern Europeans (German Jews to Russians) who came over at various points during the 19th century. Some became deadbeat Mississippi River boat gamblers who fled to the anonymity of New York City to escape their debts, and at least one settled in Charleston, South Carolina and became a poor tailor.

To compensate for intruding in this thread, I have been spending part of my summers in the Provincetown/Truro/Wellfleet area of Cape Cod since 1984! I have surely forgotten more of the history of the place than most descendants ever knew, and have friends who still find Wampanoag and Pamet arrowheads on their farm outside of Wellfleet. I absolutely LOVE that place!