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 ==Emigration Records==
 ==In-country Migration==
+*Migrations from Maryland began in the early years of the colony. Travelers generally followed the [[Cumberland Road|Cumberland Trail]] [[Braddock's Road|(Braddock's Road)]] that led west to Pittsburgh and from there to the Ohio River.
-Migrations from Maryland began in the early years of the colony. Travelers generally followed the [[Cumberland Road|Cumberland Trail]] [[Braddock Road|(Braddock Road)]] that led west to Pittsburgh and from there to the Ohio River. Many people also used the [[Great Valley Road|Great Trading Path]], also called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, that led southwest along the Allegheny Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley and beyond. Some Marylanders from [[Prince George's County, Maryland Genealogy|Prince George's County]] went to the Carolinas. A group of Catholics from [[St. Mary's County, Maryland Genealogy|St. Mary's County]] settled in [[Nelson County, Kentucky Genealogy|Nelson County, Kentucky]]. By the 1820s some wealthy young Marylanders were moving slaves from their home farms to open plantations in Mississippi and surrounding areas.
+*Many people also used the [[Great Valley Road|Great Trading Path]], also called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, that led southwest along the Allegheny Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.
+*Some Marylanders from [[Prince George's County, Maryland Genealogy|Prince George's County]] went to the Carolinas.
-Southerners fleeing the devastation of the Civil War and new immigrants from overseas helped to offset population losses. During the heavy period of immigration from 1830 through 1860, approximately half the immigrants were Germans, and a third were Irish. These immigrants tended to remain in the cities, especially [[Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland Genealogy|Baltimore]].
+*A group of Catholics from [[St. Mary's County, Maryland Genealogy|St. Mary's County]] settled in [[Nelson County, Kentucky Genealogy|Nelson County, Kentucky]].
+*By the 1820s some wealthy young Marylanders were moving slaves from their home farms to open plantations in Mississippi and surrounding areas.
-Free native-born Marylanders, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:
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-*65,000 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri
-*45,000 in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Virginia and Delaware<ref name="Lynch">These statistics do not account for the large number of Marylanders who had migrated 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>
 Henry C. Peden has published books on Marylanders who migrated to other parts of the country: