I have recently begun researching my ancestry and I have found that the Litchfields came over shortly after the Mayflower, in the 1600′s. The rest of the family, on both sides, have come more, relatively, recently. But what is ironic is that, maybe, it is the Native Americans who should have been standing at the ports saying “Hell NO! you can’t come here and take our land for your own. You can’t push us from our land and change our way of life.” My Irish side came during the Potato Famine, or shortly after and they were escaping the English absentee landowners who had taken their land.

It always comes back to land and the ownership of it and protecting what you already have.