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.
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In the fall of 1777, a half dozen of Gamage's ancestors from New England made their way to New York's Upper Hudson River Valley to fight in what would come to be known as the Battle of Saratoga. I think they were all red hot patriots because they were turning out when they were needed, said Gamage, who grew up in Maine.