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*Naval Office Shippings Lists for Virginia, 1698-1774 in the Public Record Office, London. {{FHL|301374|item|disp=FHL Films 972825-972828}}.
*Naval Office Shippings Lists for Virginia, 1698-1774 in the Public Record Office, London. {{FHL|301374|item|disp=FHL Films 972825-972828}}.


Ships mentioned in the ''Virginia Gazette'' betwen 1736 and 1780 have been identified in the free online index produced by [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm Colonial Williamsburg]. The index links to scanned newspaper images.  
Ships mentioned in the ''Virginia Gazette'' between 1736 and 1780 have been identified in the free online index produced by [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm Colonial Williamsburg]. The index links to scanned newspaper images.  
 
Information about ships can also be gleaned from colonial county court order books and [[Virginia Public Records#Calendar_of_State_Papers_Colonial.2C_America_and_West_Indies|English State Papers Colonial, American and West Indies]].
 
===== English Voyages =====


Peter Wilson Coldham compiled a list of convict ships travelling between English and Virginia ports during the eighteenth century. See appendix to:  
Peter Wilson Coldham compiled a list of convict ships travelling between English and Virginia ports during the eighteenth century. See appendix to:  
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*Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. {{FHL|658375|item|disp=FHL Book 942.41/B2 W2c}}
*Coldham, Peter Wilson. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. {{FHL|658375|item|disp=FHL Book 942.41/B2 W2c}}


Dr. David Dobson has compiled a detailed list of ships voyaging between Scotland and America. Volume 4 includes information gleaned from the ''Virginia Gazette'':
===== Scottish Voyages =====
 
Dr. David Dobson has compiled a detailed list of ships voyaging between Scotland and America. Volume 4 includes information gleaned from the ''Virginia Gazette'':  


*Dobson, David. ''Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828''. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828/1492.html Vol. 1]; [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828.%20Volume%20II/1468.html Vol. 2]; [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828.%20Volume%20III/1465.html Vol. 3]; [http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9704 Vol. 4]. {{FHL|691567|item|disp=FHL Books 973 W3d v. 1-v. 3}} FHL has Volumes 1 to 3.
*Dobson, David. ''Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828''. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828/1492.html Vol. 1]; [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828.%20Volume%20II/1468.html Vol. 2]; [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Ships%20from%20Scotland%20to%20America,%201628-1828.%20Volume%20III/1465.html Vol. 3]; [http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=9704 Vol. 4]. {{FHL|691567|item|disp=FHL Books 973 W3d v. 1-v. 3}} FHL has Volumes 1 to 3.
===== German Voyages =====


Dr. Marianne S. Wokeck created a detailed list of "German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775" to Colonial America. Destinations include Virginia (1730s-1750s). She published the list in an Appendix to:  
Dr. Marianne S. Wokeck created a detailed list of "German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775" to Colonial America. Destinations include Virginia (1730s-1750s). She published the list in an Appendix to:  
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*Wokeck, Marianne S. ''Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America''. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. {{FHL|1023023|item|disp=FHL Book 970 W2w}}.
*Wokeck, Marianne S. ''Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America''. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. {{FHL|1023023|item|disp=FHL Book 970 W2w}}.


Information about ships can also be gleaned from colonial county court order books and [[Virginia Public Records#Calendar_of_State_Papers_Colonial.2C_America_and_West_Indies|English State Papers Colonial, American and West Indies]].
===== Irish Voyages =====
 
A list of Irish ships that made voyages to the English colonies in America is included in:
 
*Griffin, Patrick. ''The People With No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764.'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.


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