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| [http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/ The Palatine Project], sponsored by [http://www.progenealogists.com/ ProGenealogists], includes annotated passenger lists for Germans entering Colonial Virginia. | | [http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/ The Palatine Project], sponsored by [http://www.progenealogists.com/ ProGenealogists], includes annotated passenger lists for Germans entering Colonial Virginia. |
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| ==== Colonial Ports ====
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| [[Image:Ports.png|thumb|right|600px]]
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| *Accomack ([[Accomack County, Virginia#Immigration|Accomack County]])
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| *Alexandria ([[Fairfax County, Virginia#Immigration|Fairfax County]])
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| *Belvoir Plantation ([[Fairfax County, Virginia#Immigration|Fairfax County]])<br>
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| *Bermuda Hundred ([[Chesterfield County, Virginia#Immigration|Chesterfield County]])
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| *Dumfries ([[Prince William County, Virginia#Immigration|Prince William County]])
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| *Falmouth ([[Stafford County, Virginia#Immigration|Stafford County]])
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| *Fredericksburg ([[Spotsylvania County, Virginia#Immigration|Spotsylvania County]])
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| *Hampton ([[Elizabeth City County, Virginia#Immigration|Elizabeth City County]])
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| *Jamestown ([[James City County, Virginia#Immigration|James City County]])
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| *Leedstown ([[Westmoreland County, Virginia#Immigration|Westmoreland County]])
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| *Norfolk ([[Norfolk County, Virginia#Immigration|Norfolk County]])
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| *Port Royal ([[Caroline County, Virginia#Immigration|Caroline County]])
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| *Portsmouth ([[Norfolk County, Virginia#Immigration|Norfolk County]])
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| *South Quay ([[Southampton County, Virginia#Immigration|Southampton County]])<ref>John Crump Parker, "Old South Quay in Southampton County: Its Location, Early Ownership, and History," ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 83, No. 2 (Apr. 1975):160-172. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4247939 JSTOR] ($).</ref>
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| *Suffolk ([[Nansemond County, Virginia#Immigration|Nansemond County]])
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| *Tappahannock (aka Hobb's Hole) ([[Essex County, Virginia#Immigration|Essex County]])
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| *Urbanna ([[Middlesex County, Virginia#Immigration|Middlesex County]])<ref>''Urbanna: A Port Town in Virginia 1680-1980'' (1980).</ref>
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| *Williamsburg ([[James City County, Virginia#Immigration|James City County]])
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| *Yorktown ([[York County, Virginia#Immigration|York County]])
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| Ships commonly docked along riverside plantations on the Elizabeth River, James River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, and York River.
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| ===== Customs Districts =====
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| Ports and eastern seaboard towns were divided into customs districts. In 1770, there were six:
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| *Accomack District
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| *James River Lower District
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| *James River Upper District
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| *South Potomac District
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| *Rappahannock District
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| *York River District<ref>Lester J. Cappon, Barbara Bartz Petchenik, and John H. Long, ''Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790'' (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976), Plate 40. {{FHL|90443|item|disp=FHL Book 973 E7ae}}.</ref>
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| ==== Colonial Ships ==== | | ==== Colonial Ships ==== |