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 Day is commemorated with dramatic battle re-enactments, parades and ceremonies, each year on the third Monday in April. It's also the name of a movie (2016) about the Boston Marathon of April 15, 2013, and the terrorist bombings at the finish line. Patriots Day is a public holiday in Massachusetts and Maine. All Massachusetts state, county and town government offices, libraries, and some local businesses close, though federal government offices, post offices, and offices of large interstate and international companies remain open.