Continuity In Commerce: Development Of The Panton, Leslie And Company Trade Monopoly In West Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Continuity In Commerce: Development Of The Panton, Leslie And Company Trade Monopoly In West Florida, Thomas D. Watson
Florida Historical Quarterly
As the year 1782 drew to an end, the framers of Indian policy in British East Florida found themselves in a quandary. Although the evacuation of Savannah and Charleston signaled the end of military campaigning, the precise status of the British Empire in postwar North America remained unknown. To Thomas Brown, Indian superintendent of the Southern District, and Governor Patrick Tonyn, this uncertainty was a matter of real concern; numerous deputations of Indians—some from as far as the Great Lakes region— had descended on St. Augustine seeking assurances of continued British support. The officials responded by encouraging the Indians to …
Brigadier Frederick Haldimand - The Florida Years,
2021
University of Central Florida
Brigadier Frederick Haldimand - The Florida Years, Robert R. Rea
Florida Historical Quarterly
The British colonies of East and West Florida were the fruits of one war and fell from the grasp of George III as the result of another. Throughout their brief history runs a common theme: both were part of a military frontier and to both the presence of British army units was of prime importance— economically, administratively, and socially. Their civil governors were men of modest competence at best. Trade never developed as profitably as merchants hoped, nor did immigrants rush to claim their untilled soil. But the army provided a degree of stability, as well as security, in spite …
The East Florida Society Of London, 1766-1767,
2021
University of Central Florida
The East Florida Society Of London, 1766-1767, George C. Rogers, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the great speculation in American lands that preceded the American Revolution, there was more interest in the real estate of East Florida than in the property of any other region of British America. Charles Loch Mowat stated in his seminal study on British East Florida that the Privy Council in London issued orders in council for 2,856,000 acres of land in East Florida in the years from 1764 to 1770, while issuing orders for only 2,108,000 acres in Nova Scotia, New York, Quebec, and West Florida combined. Of the 227 orders for East Florida, 122 were issued in 1767, …
Governor George Johnstone Of British West Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Governor George Johnstone Of British West Florida, R. F. A. Fabel
Florida Historical Quarterly
George Johnstone was the first governor of British West Florida. His activities from his arrival at Pensacola in October 1764, to his departure in January 1767, have inspired detailed by narrow description. What nobody has sufficiently considered are the reasons for his appointment as governor and the circumstances surrounding the loss of this office. These omissions are worthy of examination. It is surprising that a junior naval officer with a spotty record should have been selected for one of the more lucrative colonial governorships. Even more astonishing is that a man who proved to be the most vigorous and possibly …
Mermaids Riding Alligators: Divided Command On The Southern Frontier, 1776-1778,
2021
University of Central Florida
Mermaids Riding Alligators: Divided Command On The Southern Frontier, 1776-1778, W. Calvin Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
George Clemenceau's oft-quoted remark that war was too important a matter to entrust to the military simply put into words a thought prevalent in the western civil mind at least since the days of the Roman Republic. The obverse, that politics is too vital a business to be left to politicians, is equally true in the western military mind but less-often spoken. For a general to utter these words would bring immediate accusations of a “Caesar-complex” or worse. That twentieth-century playwrights would permit such a statement only from a power-mad, insanely-obsessed general, such as Jack Ripper in the production, Dr. …
East Florida As A Loyalist Haven,
2021
University of Central Florida
East Florida As A Loyalist Haven, Linda K. Williams
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the American Revolution broke out, East Florida, a British colony since 1763, supported the mother country and offered refuge to those in other American colonies who were loyal to the crown. East Florida became a loyalist haven when George III ordered Governor Patrick Tonyn to issue a proclamation in November 1775 inviting them to come to St. Augustine. Tonyn was also authorized “for the encouragement of such persons as may under these cruel Circumstances be induced to seek a happy Asylum in the Province, to make out for them gratuitous Grants of Land exempt from Quit Rents for Ten …
Blacks In British East Florida,
2021
University of Central Florida
Blacks In British East Florida, J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
Blacks began arriving in Spanish Florida in the early sixteenth century soon after the appearance of Europeans, and from that point on they constituted a significant minority of the population, if not an absolute majority. During the British era, 1763-1784, blacks outnumbered whites. Except for rare instances, scholars interested in Negro history at any time during Florida’s lengthy colonial era will search in vain for published books and articles. A stroll 200 years ago through rice and indigo fields and through sugar houses of St. Johns River plantations or a visit to St. Augustine’s public market on the plaza and …
Contributors,
2021
University of Central Florida
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Floridas in the Revolutionary Era : Contributors
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 54, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Florida Bicentennial Symposium, Florida College Teachers of History Conference, Latin American Bicentennial Conference, State and Local History Awards, D. B. McKay Florida History Award, Peace River Valley Florida History Award, Announcements and Activities, Obituary
Florida History Research In Progress,
2021
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway and as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1975 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.
Book Reviews,
2021
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THREE VOYAGES, by René Laudonnière, translated by Charles E. Bennett, reviewed by Robert A. Matter; THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE: LAND AND WATER POLICY IN A GROWTH STATE, by Luther J. Carter, reviewed by John K. Mahon; JOHN JAMES TIGERT: AMERICAN EDUCATOR, by George Coleman Osborn, reviewed by Henry L. Swint; LAND FROM THE SEA: THE GEOLOGIC STORY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, by John Edward Hoffmeister, reviewed by H.. K. Brooks; THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE SOUTHERN VOYAGES, A. D. 1492-1616, by Samuel Eliot Morison, reviewed by Ursula Lamb; IN DEFENSE OF THE INDIANS: THE DEFENSE OF THE MOST REVEREND LORD, DON …
Fort Foster: A Second Seminole War Fort,
2021
University of Central Florida
Fort Foster: A Second Seminole War Fort, Michael G. Schene
Florida Historical Quarterly
On November 4, 1836, Major General Thomas Sidney Jesup, recent quatermaster general of the army, was appointed supreme commander in Florida. His orders carried specific instructions to campaign along the Withlacoochee River, occupy the country between this river and Tampa Bay, and establish forts at strategic points in the interior that would ensure safety for the settlers and provide regular supplies for his command.
Civil War Letters Of Colonel David Lang,
2021
University of Central Florida
Civil War Letters Of Colonel David Lang, Bertram H. Groene
Florida Historical Quarterly
David Lang was born in Camden County, Georgia, in 1838, the oldest son among Robert and Margaret Lang’s seven children. Earlier his father had lived in Nassau County, Florida. After graduating from Georgia Military Academy in Marietta in 1857, Robert Lang returned to Florida with his family, settling near White Springs, where his son David became surveyor for Suwannee County.
Theodore Roosevelt Entertains Booker T. Washington: Florida's Reaction To The White House Dinner,
2021
University of Central Florida
Theodore Roosevelt Entertains Booker T. Washington: Florida's Reaction To The White House Dinner, John K. Severn
Florida Historical Quarterly
"It was merely an incident that had no thought or motive behind it except the convenience of the President.“ Thus did Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and the most influential black leader in America, later describe a dinner he attended as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt in the White House on the evening of October 16, 1901. The Negro educator’s account was too subdued an estimate of what became a cause célèbre with ramifications that were racial, social, political, and sectional. In the furor that followed the dinner party, citizens of Florida played a part.
Population Structure In Hispanic St. Augustine, 1629-1763,
2021
University of Central Florida
Population Structure In Hispanic St. Augustine, 1629-1763, Theodore G. Corbett
Florida Historical Quarterly
Recent study of population in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American and European communities is providing new insights into the nature of their social existence. Such studies depend not only upon the traditional census, but utilize a variety of sources, including parish registers, tax and tribute rolls, musters, and genealogical material.1 The use of these sources for the counting of individuals and the arrangement of aggregate figures into tables may seem to produce a rigidly scientific and arid form of history, but in reality these figures do much to explain the everyday life experience of a past community. There is no better …
Madison County's Sea Island Cotton Industry, 1870-1916,
2021
University of Central Florida
Madison County's Sea Island Cotton Industry, 1870-1916, Clifton Paisley
Florida Historical Quarterly
The demand for cotton with a silky fiber, great tensile strength, and a staple at least one and five-eighths inches in length created a boom in the growing of Sea Island cotton in North Florida and South Georgia during the last third of the nineteenth century. Although Sea Island never comprised more than one per cent of the cotton grown in the United States, the use of its long-staple fibers for fine fabrics, laces, thread, and eventually for automobile tires enabled “long cotton,” as it was called, to command a price that was double and sometimes triple that paid for …
Title Page,
2021
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 54, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Seventy-Third Annual Meeting,
2021
University of Central Florida
Seventy-Third Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society
History News,
2021
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Panton, Leslie Papers, Joseph E. Lee Library Museum, Announcements and Activities,
