Stephen Colbert connection?

A quick follow up to my previous post.  Apparently one of Ulrich Zug's fellow passengers on the good ship James Goodwill that arrived in Philadelphia in 1727 was one Hans Diebold Ledermann, who happens to be the seventh great grandfather of political satirist Stephen Colbert.  This is confirmed in an excerpt of a book entitled "Faces of America:  How 12 Extraordinary People discovered their pasts," by Henry Louis Gates.  I haven't read the book yet, but I do intend to and I will and share any additional information I discover that might be of interest.  There very well may be other connections to Stephen Colbert as not only did some of his relatives come across on the same ship at the same time (and likely were from the same area in Germany) but the son of Hans Diebold Ledermann relocated to the same part of Maryland (Frederick County) as many of our ancestors.  In 1728, four different families arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse who would all later become direct Ringer ancestors, so it's safe to say that the people who immigrated from Germany on these ships at that time were fairly friendly with each other.  Were Colbert's ancestors connected with ours in some way?  We'll have to explore that.

Another interesting tidbit from the excerpt I found in this book is that the law that required new immigrants to pledge an allegiance to the king was passed in 1727, due to "...a deep suspicion of non-English speaking immigrants..." and the men from the ship James Goodwill were only the second group of immigrants to have to agree to the pledge before entering the colonies.