The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, July 1948 - April, 1949 Page: 196
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west. For example, if a group of families moved from North
Carolina to Alabama, and their children in time intermarried,
the boys aged under six at the date of migration would marry
girls born in Alabama after the migration. In a majority of cases,
probably, marriage between natives of different states attested
not the wandering of husband or wife as unmarried adult, but
the parallel or converging paths of their families while the future
spouses were still dependent children.
Six indexes to the sources of migration into East Texas are
brought together in Table 8. The indexes are based upon place,
but a time element implicit in each accounts for the differences
between them. Because the per cents are compound of removals
or births occurring over many years, none of the indexes can
have a precise date. Yet the bulk of the information in each index
falls within a moderate range of years, and the median year of
the range is more or less calculable. The medians herein listed
are not to be taken literally, but they will indicate the range of
years to which each index in the main applies. For removals to
Texas, the approximate median date is 1845-1846; for births of
children, 1840-1841; for first removals, 1838-1839; for births of
children and parents, 1830-1831; for births of mothers, 1817-1818;
for births of fathers, 1812-1813. A cautious correlation of these
median dates with the several columns points to the general
whereabouts of the East Texas migrant stock at various periods
from the War of 1812 down to the annexation of Texas. Tennes-
see is the only state that holds a commanding position across the
board.17 On the eve of the westward sweep that followed the
War of 1812, the migrant stock outside Tennessee was almost all
in the Carolinas and Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky. At each
later period the per cents in those states had become smaller,
and the per cents in the newer states, larger, until by the 'forties
the migrant stock outside Tennessee was almost all in Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri.
Table 8 affords a good opportunity to examine the adequacy
of birthplaces as measures of migration. The subject merits ex-
17In the last two columns, the Alabama, Mississippi, and trans-Mississippi per
cents are clearly too high for the median dates assigned; if they were lowered, the
per cents for the states to the east, especially the Carolinas and Georgia, would
be higher.196
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