Abstract
The English Puritans of New England are a foundational element in the current racist ideology of White Supremacy. Depicted in history books as stalwart British Protestants who braved bitter winters and Native predations to establish a “City on the Hill”—a beacon to the world of freedom and liberty—the Puritans became ideals in the American consciousness. But what if this is a misrepresentation, created largely in the mid and late 1800s to serve as a political barrier against Catholic, East European, Jewish, and Asian immigrants who threatened the “American way of life”? The present research uses genealogical DNA data collected from descendants of the New England settlers to demonstrate that these original “Yankees” were of Jewish ancestry. The WASP origination of New England is shown to be a false narrative.
Highlights
The research we report here shows that this assumption—that New England was settled by Anglo-Saxon/Nordic persons—is false
The genealogical DNA results we report document that these English crypto-Jews may have retained their ancestral identities and immigrated as a group to New England in the early 1600s
During the late Middle Ages, the Ashkenazi population shifted steadily eastward into areas that became part of the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth, comprising parts of what are Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine (Vital 1999). Many of these Eastern European Ashkenazim immigrated to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Vital 1999). Their descendants comprise the Jews described by Madison Grant ([1933] 2018, p. 227) as follows: “The (Ashkenazic Jews) set up almost entirely in the larger cities built up a ghetto population similar to the . . . congested urbanism of their homeland . . . Americans were so obsessed with the idea of providing a “refuge for the oppressed” that they welcomed into our country that morass of human misery found in the Polish ghettoes!”
Summary
In order to create a social distinction between the earlier New England colonists and these undesirable newcomers, family genealogy books were written purportedly documenting the noble and aristocratic pedigrees of the original settlers (see e.g., Smith [1897] 2015). The genealogical DNA results we report document that these English crypto-Jews may have retained their ancestral identities and immigrated as a group to New England in the early 1600s. This would have meant retaining their crypto-Jewish practices for a 300 year period, which may seem unlikely, but is currently present among colonial Hispanic families in the Southwest United States (see e.g., Hordes 2005). Most companies have posted their test results on multiple commercial sites, giving users at each one access to all data collected globally
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