15 Surnames That Prove Your Family Is Truly Colonial American

Somewhere in your family tree there might be a name older than the country itself — and it's probably not the one you'd guess. We counted down 15 surname bloodlines that mark a truly colonial line in America, and some of them aren't English, aren't Puritan, and aren't even Christian. One is currently the subject of an actual federal court case. Does your last name make the list? Sources: https://colonialswedes.net/list-of-qu... https://moravianarchives.org/records-... https://www.ncpedia.org/scottish-sett... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephard...