Thank you! I've read very little about the Spanish and Portuguese influence in the English colonies but I know it existed. What little I've read, which amounts to not much more than a few sentences in various books at best, largely points to Iberian influence in New England. I'd suspected a genetic influence and the statistics that you provide for Bristol, RI confirms something that I'd suspected for a long time (i.e. Iberians settled in the English colonies in North America, something that's not widely known).