What do they think about being from that family tree?
Very interesting answers. I'm learning so much!
Does this help you with your history homework too!? 
or show and tell?
My mother-in-law traces back to the idiot who fell off the Mayflower half way over and had to be rescued. She's a direct descendent of not one but three of the Salem witches (it does explain soooo much about her). The daughter-in-law of two of the witches (also her greatxgrandparent) was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony for showing up for services on Sunday completely nude in protest of the tax for not showing up for Sunday services.
Three generations after that, the line got expelled from the US for being Tories (Loyalists to the Crown) during the American Revolution. According to their sworn statements, they were stripped of everything they owned and put on a boat (which used to be theirs before the confiscation) and were sailed up the coast to Nova Scotia and dropped there. They didn't have a penny to their name and only the clothes on their backs. The British helped them relocate to the Niagara district in Ontario where they started a new life. But ironically, 2 generations later they were back in the US having snuck into Michigan because they didn't like life under the British.
This conglomeration of misanthropes explains so much about my *cough* lovely mother-in-law.