Vermont Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

The [[United States Emigration and Immigration|“Emigration and Immigration”]] section of the United States Research Outline (30972) lists several important sources for finding information about immigrants to this country. These sources include many references to people who settled in Vermont. The [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins Research Outline]] (34111) introduces the principles, research strategies, and additional record types you can use to identify an immigrant’s original hometown.

Colonial settlers of [[Vermont]] generally came from [[New Hampshire]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New York]], [[Connecticut]], and [[Rhode Island]]. During the early years of statehood until about 1808, settlers continued to come to Vermont from southern New England, but by the 1830s many Vermonters had left for developing cities in the south or for new farmlands to the west in the United States or to the north in Canada.<br><br> Before the middle of the 19th century, Irish immigrants from overseas came to build the railroads. Canadian immigrants, especially French Canadians from Quebec province, began to come to the state before the Civil War and continued to come in large numbers in the early 1900s. Smaller numbers of settlers came from Italy, Wales, Spain, and Poland to work in the mines, mills, and quarries of Vermont.

Stilwell, Lewis D. ''Migration from Vermont. Growth of Vermont, 5''. Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 1948. (FHL book 974.3 W2s; film 873949.) This book includes a name and locality index and charts showing migration patterns of Vermonters to other parts of the United States.

=== Colonial immigrants ===

Names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources are indexed in P. William Filby’s ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index''. See the [[United States Emigration and Immigration|“Emigration and Immigration”]] section of the United States Research Outline (30972) for this source and more detailed information on U.S. immigration sources.

=== Canadian Border Crossing Records (1895–1954) ===

Lists of passengers crossing the Canadian border to the United States, including Vermont, were collected at St. Albans, Vermont, and are called Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont District. This collection includes records from all over Canada and the northern United States. These are the records compiled by U.S. immigration officials who inspected travelers at all Canadian seaports, major cities, and emigration stations and at U.S. train arrival stations in all border states from Maine to Washington. These lists may include the name of the passenger, date and port or station of entry, literacy, last residence, previous visits to the United States, place of birth, and names of relatives in the United States and Canada. For a full description of the two sets of records and four indexes, see the [[United States Emigration and Immigration|“Emigration and Immigration”]] section of the United States Research Outline (30972). One record pertains more to Vermont than the others:

=== Where Vermont Residents Went ===

For information about where Vermont residents tended to move, see:

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