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.
Patriots. The Patriots of the American Revolution were colonists who wanted independence from England. These patriots weren't rich or high end citizens, but the middle/lower class of the colony. Many patrtiots lived in rural areas, and had more labor intensive jobs, such as fishing and farming. These men and women felt that the British had wronged them, and wanted to be free from the Crown.