Anyone here of colonial American Jewish descent?

I’m of entirely colonial American descent, though they were not Jewish. I’ve one or two Jews in my ancestry, but I was not born Jewish and was raised Protestant. Some of my mother’s ancestors actually arrived on the same boats as the initial congregation of the modern Shearith Israel in NYC (a Norwegian named Haymansz “the Portuguese” Rosenkranz working as a West India soldier in Brazil. Another ancestor working for the company died in Malacca)

I’ve been deeply interested in the Jewish communities my family would’ve come into contact with in the colonial Northeast and South.

Contrary to popular belief, NYC was not always the hub of American Jewry. Until the 1840s-1850s, it was Charleston, SC. This was also the place American Reform Judaism developed initially and it was out of a Sephardi synagogue, no less.

One of the inscriptions of the Statue of Liberty was actually written by a Jew of colonial descent, Emma Lazarus.