the first family member to arrive in the US

This is another HW assignment about my families history, (props to Aunt Pat)
In London, my ancestor John Gassaway was a cobbler, I think.
He moved to Maryland in the mid-1600s, and settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.He was one of the founders of London Town, Maryland. I don't think they were rich, but they weren't poor either. Very soonafter they arrived in America one of the Gassaway ancestors married into aQuaker family. The Quakers were very plain, and they didn't believe infancy decorations or shows, so I think they probably kept their Christmases low-key. They probably went to church and maybe had a bigger than usual meal. I doubt if they exchanged presents, though. My connection to the Gassaway family comes through my Grandpa, Norris Tummons. His great-grandmother was named Susan Trantham. She was born in 1843. Her great-great-great grandfather was a Gassaway. When I was about 8 years old I went to Washington to visit my aunt and my uncle, on that trip, we drove to London Town and Annapolis and saw where some of the Gassaways were buried.

The Gassaways were the first in my family as far as I know to settle down in the US but I think the first people in my family to celebrate the holidays were of my mom’s generation. Every year her 3 brothers and 2 sisters would all get together at their mother’s house and have a big meal, and then when the brothers had kids the entire family would go to Grandma’s house for Christmas and it became a yearly tradition.
I am the youngest in the family and by the time I came into the picture the tradition had formed into a big get-together then a feast then a trip to sing carols at the nearest nursing home around the corner.