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Did you know that Immigration means To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native and that Emigration means To leave one country or region to settle in another Find your ancestor on 2,553 Olive Tree Genealogy FREE Ships Passenger Lists or Search over 8,000 ships passenger lists on websites like ISTG (Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild), TheShipsList.com, and more!

Lydia 1740

Sept. 27 1740. Palatines imported in the ship Lydia, James Allen, Commander, from Rotterdam, last from Dover. In all 180.

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