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 == Background ==
-The original European settlers came in the early 17th century from the midland and southern counties of [[England Genealogy|England]].<ref>David Hackett Fischer, ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). {{FHL|593285|item|disp=FHL Book 973 H2fis}}.</ref> They first settled in [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]]'s tidewater (coastal plain). Many colonists had connections to [[Barbados Genealogy|Barbados]].<ref>David L. Kent, ''Barbados and America'' (Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980). {{FHL|316574|item|disp=FHL Book 972.981 X2b}}.</ref> The earliest Africans to Barbados was in 1619. Starting in 1680, large numbers of Africans were captured and brought as slaves to Barbados. It has been estimated that 75% of white colonists arrived in bondage as indentured servants or transported convicts.<ref>Wesley Frank Craven, ''White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian'' (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1971).</ref> Small landholders moved westward to the Piedmont, where they were joined by a new wave of English and [[Scotland|Scottish]] immigrants.
+*The original European settlers came in the early 17th century from the midland and southern counties of [[England Genealogy|England]].<ref>David Hackett Fischer, ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). {{FHL|593285|item|disp=FHL Book 973 H2fis}}.</ref> They first settled in [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]]'s tidewater (coastal plain).
+*Many colonists had connections to [[Barbados Genealogy|Barbados]].<ref>David L. Kent, ''Barbados and America'' (Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980). {{FHL|316574|item|disp=FHL Book 972.981 X2b}}.</ref> The earliest Africans to Barbados came in 1619. Starting in 1680, large numbers of Africans were captured and brought as slaves to Barbados.
+*It has been estimated that 75% of white colonists arrived in bondage as indentured servants or transported convicts.<ref>Wesley Frank Craven, ''White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian'' (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1971).</ref>
+*Small landholders moved westward to the Piedmont, where they were joined by a new wave of English and [[Scotland|Scottish]] immigrants.
+*In the early 1700s, [[France|French]] Huguenots arrived. Their settlement, in [[King William Parish, Virginia|King William Parish]], near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town.<ref>"Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. 1750," ''National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763,'' http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf, accessed 23 June 2012.</ref> They and many of their descendants lived in [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Goochland County, Virginia|Goochland]], [[Cumberland County, Virginia|Cumberland]], and [[Powhatan County, Virginia|Powhatan]] counties.
+*[[Germany|German]] workers were imported between 1714 and 1717 to work iron furnaces in the Piedmont area.
+*A group of Germans created a settlement called Germanna in early eighteenth-century Virginia. '''[[Germanna Foundation]]''' maintains a visitor's center with genealogical library. They work to promote historic preservation as well as family history information and research.
+*During the 1730s and 1740s, a large number of settlers of [[Northern Ireland|Ulster Scot]] and German descent moved southward from [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]] down the Allegheny Ridges into the Shenandoah Valley.
-In the early 1700s, [[France|French]] Huguenots arrived, followed by [[Germany|German]] workers imported between 1714 and 1717 to work iron furnaces in the Piedmont area. During the 1730s and 1740s, a large number of settlers of [[Northern Ireland|Ulster Scot]] and German descent moved southward from [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]] down the Allegheny Ridges into the Shenandoah Valley.
-Beginning in the late 18th century, Virginia lost many residents as families moved westward to new states and territories. There was very little foreign immigration to Virginia after 1800.
-==== German Immigrants  ====
-A group of Germans created a settlement called Germanna in early eighteenth-century Virginia. '''[[Germanna Foundation]]''' maintains a visitor's center with genealogical library. They work to promote historic preservation as well as family history information and research.
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-==== Scottish and Irish Immigrants  ====
-Many Scottish merchants established stores where British goods were imported in eighteenth-century Virginia.  Scots-Irish settlement was particularly concentrated in the Shenandoah Valley during the eighteenth-century in places such as [[Augusta County, Virginia]].
-==== French Immigrants  ====
-Huguenots came in 1700. Their settlement, in [[King William Parish, Virginia|King William Parish]], near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town.<ref>"Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. 1750," ''National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763,'' http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf, accessed 23 June 2012.</ref> They and many of their descendants lived in [[Henrico County, Virginia|Henrico]], [[Goochland County, Virginia|Goochland]], [[Cumberland County, Virginia|Cumberland]], and [[Powhatan County, Virginia|Powhatan]] counties.
 ==Immigration Records==