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 Free native-born Virginians, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of Virginians who had resettled and died before the year 1850. See: William O. Lynch, "The Westward Flow of Southern Colonists before 1861," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug. 1943):303-327. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2191319 JSTOR] ($).</ref>
-{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
+{| width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
 |-
 | bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''State'''</center>
 | bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''Persons Born in Virginia'''</center>
 | bgcolor="#cccccc" | <center>'''Percentage'''</center>
 |-
 | <center>Ohio</center>
 | <center>85,762</center>
 | <center>22%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Kentucky</center>
 | <center>54,694</center>
 | <center>14%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Tennessee</center>
 | <center>46,631</center>
 | <center>12%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Indiana</center>
 | <center>41,819</center>
 | <center>11%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Missouri</center>
 | <center>40,777</center>
 | <center>11%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Illinois</center>
 | <center>24,697</center>
 | <center>6%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Alabama</center>
 | <center>10,387</center>
 | <center>3%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Mississippi</center>
 | <center>8,357</center>
 | <center>2%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Georgia</center>
 | <center>7,331</center>
 | <center>2%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Texas</center>
 | <center>3,580</center>
 | <center>1%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Louisiana</center>
 | <center>3,216</center>
 | <center>1%</center>
 |-
 | <center>Other</center>
 | <center>60,808</center>
 | <center>16%</center>
 |-
 | <center>'''Total'''</center>
 | <center>'''388,059'''</center>
 | <center>'''101%'''</center>
 |}
-Many Virginians moved to Georgia immediately after the American Revolution.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, "Review of ''Research in Georgia,"'' in ''The Virginia Genealogist,'' Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1981):147. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Da=285 American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 25 (1981)}}</ref> Barlow published records identifying some of them:
+Many Virginians moved to Georgia immediately after the American Revolution.<ref>John Frederick Dorman, "Review of ''Research in Georgia,"'' in ''The Virginia Genealogist,'' Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1981):147. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;Da=285 American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 25 (1981)}}</ref> Barlow published records identifying some of them:
 *Barlow, Lundie W. "Some Virginia Settlers of Georgia, 1773-1798," ''The Virginia Genealogist'', Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1958):19-27. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/Search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($).
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 *Young, Chester Raymond. ''Westward into Kentucky, The Narrative of Daniel Trabue''. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. {{FHL|57459|item|disp=FHL Book 976.9 H2td}}.
 Robertson compiled a list of Virginians in Kansas in 1860:<br>
 *Robertson, Clara Hamlett. ''Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who were Born in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina:&nbsp;A Compilation with Historical Annotations and Editorial Comment''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. {{FHL|978.1 H2ro}}; digital version at [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806306971_clarahamlettrobertson1976 World Vital Records] ($).
+British Mercantile Claims identify migrations of many Virginians who owed debts to British merchants during the period 1775 to 1803. Dorman published them in ''The Virginia Genealogist'', beginning with Volume 6. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 6 (1962)}}.
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