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.
American patriot, was born at West Barnstable, Massachusetts, on the 5th of February 1725. He was the eldest son of James Otis (1702-1778), fourth in descent from John Otis (1581-1657), a native of Barnstaple, Devon, and one of the first settlers (in 1635) of Hingham, Mass.