Founding Fathers of the United States:
โขGeorge Washington: English (ancestry traceable to England)
โข Thomas Jefferson: English (with some Welsh influences)
โข John Adams: English (Puritan settlers from England)
โข Benjamin Franklin: English (Puritan/English settler roots)
โข James Madison: English
โข Alexander Hamilton: Scottish (father) and French Huguenot/British (mother); born in the British West Indies
โข John Jay: English and Dutch (mother from prominent Dutch New York family)
โข Samuel Adams: English
โข John Hancock: English
โข James Wilson: Scottish (born in Scotland)
โข John Witherspoon: Scottish (born in Scotland)
โข Robert Morris: English (born in England)
โข Button Gwinnett: English (born in England)
โข Francis Lewis: Welsh (born in Wales)
โข George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, James Smith: Irish (born in Ireland or Northern Ireland)
โข Charles Carroll: English/Irish (prominent Catholic signer with Irish roots)
โข Philip Livingston: Dutch/English (New York Dutch colonial family roots)