User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-08-'12 — Official AnvilNext Trailer/@comment-4013467-20120807123427/@comment-3202167-20120807130854

Native Americans were not allowed to own well..anything, really. So Connor must have a father or relative or somebody that gives him the ability of having a Naval Ship.

And they did say there will be one big historical deviation.