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Ships commonly docked along riverside plantations on the Elizabeth River, James River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, and York River.
Ships commonly docked along riverside plantations on the Elizabeth River, James River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, and York River.


=== Colonial Period ===
=== Colonial Records ===


Most surviving lists of colonial Virginia immigrants have been published. The place to start is P. William Filby, ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'' (available online at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486 Ancestry] ($)). Available library copies can be located through [http://www.worldcat.org/title/passenger-and-immigration-lists-index-a-guide-to-published-arrival-records-of-about-500000-passengers-who-came-to-the-united-states-and-canada-in-the-seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/oclc/7385897&referer=brief_results WorldCat]. See also [http://www.worldcat.org/title/passenger-and-immigration-lists-index-supplement/oclc/9228872&referer=brief_results ''Passenger and immigration lists index. Supplement''].<br>  
Most surviving lists of colonial Virginia immigrants have been published. The place to start is P. William Filby, ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'' (available online at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486 Ancestry] ($)). Available library copies can be located through [http://www.worldcat.org/title/passenger-and-immigration-lists-index-a-guide-to-published-arrival-records-of-about-500000-passengers-who-came-to-the-united-states-and-canada-in-the-seventeenth-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/oclc/7385897&referer=brief_results WorldCat]. See also [http://www.worldcat.org/title/passenger-and-immigration-lists-index-supplement/oclc/9228872&referer=brief_results ''Passenger and immigration lists index. Supplement''].<br>  
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