According to recent information on him his grandfather was German. A large percentage of the United States ancestors were Northern European from 1620 to recent time. His actual ethnicity could be said to be American like so many others.
New England Patriots. The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston region. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division.
African American Patriots. 1  James Armistead - Armistead was an American spy who worked as a double agent. 2  Crispus Attucks - Attucks was the first patriot killed at the Boston Massacre. 3  Austin Dabney - Dabney fought for the Georgia Militia as an artilleryman. 4  Lambert Latham - Latham was a member of the Continental Army.