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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 City, Maryland. | 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 City, Maryland. | ||
Free native-born Marylanders, alive in 1850, who had left the state, resettled as follows:<br> | |||
*~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 Georgians 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: | Henry C. Peden has published books on Marylanders who migrated to other parts of the country: | ||
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*''More Marylanders to Ohio and Indiana: Migrations Prior to 1835''. Lewes, De.: Colonial Roots, 2006. {{FHL|1379744|item|disp=FHL Book 975.2 D2phc v. 2}}.<br> | *''More Marylanders to Ohio and Indiana: Migrations Prior to 1835''. Lewes, De.: Colonial Roots, 2006. {{FHL|1379744|item|disp=FHL Book 975.2 D2phc v. 2}}.<br> | ||
*''Marylanders to Tennessee, 1775-1835''. Lewes, De.: Colonial Roots, 2004. {{FHL|1202774|item|disp=FHL Book 973 W2pm}}.<br> | *''Marylanders to Tennessee, 1775-1835''. Lewes, De.: Colonial Roots, 2004. {{FHL|1202774|item|disp=FHL Book 973 W2pm}}.<br> | ||
== Websites == | == Websites == | ||