The Manx people left. Ohio, Cleveland, Virginia — they carried their language, their constitutional instinct, their identity. A tradition connects the Virginia Christians to the same family as Illiam Dhone, and the Fincastle Resolutions of 1775 — drafted by Virginians named Christian — preceded the Declaration of Independence. Whether those Virginians came from the Isle of Man, as A.W. Moore believed, is a question the primary sources have not yet answered. What is documented is the Ohio emigration: John Sayle wrote home from Ohio in Manx Gaelic. The language lived longer in Ohio than it did on the Island. Parish registers and ship manifests trace the Ohio Manx by name, by parish, by ship. The Virginia tradition has no such paper trail.