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Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson 2021 University of Central Florida

Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Governor Melchor Feliu closed the extensive and complicated operation of evacuating Spanish residents from St. Augustine on February 5, 1764, he reported that in order to provide for looking after certain properties of the king, and to dispose of many horses running in the woods, he had left seven soldiers and an interpreter there. One of these was a militiaman, Luciano de Herrera, whose family had long been resident in the colony.


The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd 2021 University of Central Florida

The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first flag of the State of Florida was flown for the first and, so far as is known, for the last time on June 25, 1845. The raising of the state and national banners, closing the ceremonies marking the inauguration of William D. Moseley as first governor of the State of Florida, on the east portico of the recently completed capitol, was accompanied by a twenty-eight-gun salute. The band then played "Yankee Doodle."


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765-1843), Philip S. May 2021 University of Central Florida

Zephaniah Kingsley, Nonconformist (1765-1843), Philip S. May

Florida Historical Quarterly

After extensive travels and successful commercial operations in the British Isles, Africa, the West Indies, and North and South America, Zephaniah Kingsley, at the age of thirty-eight, brought to Florida in 1803 his unusual menage and here lived out the remaining forty years of an active, colorful life. During this period while Florida was first a Spanish colony and then a territory of the United States, he had a prominent part in its commercial and political affairs.


Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Reviews And Notes, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Reviews And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The History of Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas; The Province of Carolina on the Coasts of Floreda; Negroes in the Seminole War; The Trail of the Florida Circuit Rider; The P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History


The Conservation Of Historic Sites In Florida, C. R. Vinten 2021 University of Central Florida

The Conservation Of Historic Sites In Florida, C. R. Vinten

Florida Historical Quarterly

In past years I have noted with great interest the concern expressed by members of the Florida Historical Society for the protection of the historical and archeological relics which still exist in Florida. In listing these accounts of strange archeological sites and of interesting historical areas, I have always asked myself the question, “What can be done to save the most valuable of these sites so that they will not have to share the fate of many which have been wantonly destroyed?” I believe we will all agree that these historical and archeological relics, which have been passed down to …


Pioneer Florida: Sidelights On Early American St. Augustine, T. Frederick Davis 2021 University of Central Florida

Pioneer Florida: Sidelights On Early American St. Augustine, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Change of Flags, as it is called, designating the official transfer of East Florida from Spain to the United States under the treaty of cession, took place at St. Augustine July 10, 1821.


Material In The National Archives Relating To Florida. 1789-1870, Elizabeth B. Drewry 2021 University of Central Florida

Material In The National Archives Relating To Florida. 1789-1870, Elizabeth B. Drewry

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the time of the first meetings of the First Continental Congress in 1774, when steps were taken to record the actions of the Congress, there has been an almost continuous agitation for an appreciation of the historical importance of the official records of the United States Government. As the years went by and valuable documents were damaged and lost through fire, inadequate space, neglect and ill-use, the feeling became more widespread that the records of our Government’s activities deserved a better fate than they were receiving. Periodically proposals were made for adequate housing and centralized control. It was not, …


The Beginnings Of Printing In Florida, Douglas C. McMurtrie 2021 University of Central Florida

The Beginnings Of Printing In Florida, Douglas C. Mcmurtrie

Florida Historical Quarterly

Printing came to Florida not as a result of natural expansion with a gradually increasing necessity for a press, nor for the purpose of Christianizing the Indians as was the case in some other areas; printing was introduced there as a result of war conditions outside the province. Florida had passed from Spanish to English hands in 1763 and had remained true to England throughout the Revolution, offering a haven for Tory refugees from the colonies to the north. In 1782 there was a great influx of loyalist Georgians, and later in the year, with the withdrawal of British troops …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Report of the President, Report of the Treasurer, Librarian's Report, Director's Meeting, and new members


The Southern Brigade, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat 2021 University of Central Florida

The Southern Brigade, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

From The Journal of Southern History: The British colonies of East and West Florida differed from their thirteen cousins in so many ways, as evidenced especially in the outcome of the American Revolution, that their close relationship to the thirteen in the mind of the British government is seldom realized. For two decades they were an integral part and the important left flank of the British empire in America, without the possession and security of which, as any military man will hold, it were unwise to advance.


Pioneer Florida: The Beginning Of Tampa, T. Frederick Davis 2021 University of Central Florida

Pioneer Florida: The Beginning Of Tampa, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

General Andrew Jackson was responsible for the failure of the first purposed community settlement of whites in the Tampa region. It came about in this way: General Gregor MacGregor, a Scotchman, who had been associated with Bolivar in the South American revolutions, conceived the idea of also liberating the Floridas from Spanish rule. In 1817, he collected a force recruited largely from adventurers hanging loose upon the society of the United States, made a descent upon the island of Amelia in northeast Florida and captured it in June, 1817. He held on for several months, when, his situation becoming precarious …


The Tallahassee Historical Society's "Apalachee", Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

The Tallahassee Historical Society's "Apalachee", Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Tallahassee Historical Society has long been one of the most active local historical associations in Florida. Program meetings are held during each winter at which carefully prepared papers are read, many of them having been written after extensive research. Several of these papers have been published in this Quarterly, and a much larger number were selected and published at intervals as The Annual of the Tallahassee Historical Society in 1934, 1935, 1937 and 1939. These are mimeographed volumes of sixty to one hundred twenty pages.


The Tribulations Of Denys Rolle, Charles L. Mowat 2021 University of Central Florida

The Tribulations Of Denys Rolle, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the brief and generally uneventful history of British East Florida greatest interest has, perhaps, attached to the two unusual experiments in colonization which were carried on in the province at New Smyrna and Rollestown. The history of both has been told by Carita Doggett Corse, 1 and to her work there is little to add. It is, however, possible to give some new light on the early difficulties which Denys Rolle met with in his attempts to establish his colony.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 23, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Names Of Liberty Ships., Florida Historical Society 2021 University of Central Florida

Names Of Liberty Ships., Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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