Wheresoever INCLUDES Virginia. A child born IN Virginia to a father (or mother if father is deceased) who was NOT a citizen, was also NOT a citizen. There was NO automatic citizenship at birth for a child of a non-citizen father (or mother if father is deceased).
If birthers could read, they wouldn’t be birthers.
“...all infants wheresoever born, whose father, if living, or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth, or who migrate hither, their father, if living, or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen, or who migrate hither without father or mother, shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth, until they relinquish that character in manner as herein after expressed”
Your interpretation:
“A child born IN Virginia to a father (or mother if father is deceased) who was NOT a citizen, was also NOT a citizen. There was NO automatic citizenship at birth for a child of a non-citizen father (or mother if father is deceased).”
Please learn to read. Here is the paragraph:
“Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth and all who have resided therein two years next before the passing of this act, and all who shall hereafter migrate into the same; and shall before any court of record give satisfactory proof by their own oath or affirmation, that they intend to reside therein, and moreover shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth; and all infants wheresoever born, whose father, if living, or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth, or who migrate hither, their father, if living, or otherwise their mother becoming a citizen, or who migrate hither without father or mother, shall be deemed citizens of this commonwealth, until they relinquish that character in manner as herein after expressed: And all others not being citizens of any the United States of America, shall be deemed aliens.”
Please try reading that first sentence again:
“that all white persons born within the territory of this commonwealth”
What part of ALL WHITE PEOPLE do you not understand?
In addition: “and all infants wheresoever born, whose father, if living, or otherwise, whose mother was, a citizen at the time of their birth”
Thus those infants born to parent citizens while out of Virginia are ALSO citizens. White infants born INSIDE Virginia were already included in ALL WHITE PEOPLE. It did not say all white ADULTS, did it? No, I thought not.