Delaware Immigration

This entry was originally written by Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FUGA, FGBS, FASG, in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.

This article is part of the Delaware Family History Research series.

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Ship passenger arrival lists for Wilmington, 1820'49, are on microfilm at the National Archives'Mid-Atlantic Region. See also Carl Boyer, ed., Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware, 1641'1825 (Newhall, Calif.: the author, 1980). Priscilla Thompson's Arriving in Delaware: The Italian-American Experience (Wilmington: History Store, 1989) provides a study of one immigrant group, from about 1870.