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The Southern Boundary Commission, The Chattahoochee River, And The Florida Seminoles, 1799, Jack D. L. Holmes May 2021

The Southern Boundary Commission, The Chattahoochee River, And The Florida Seminoles, 1799, Jack D. L. Holmes

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the pressure of European affairs mounted during 1795, Spain’s Minister of State, the erratic Manuel de Godoy, was persuaded to sign the Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney Treaty) with the United States in an effort to neutralize that power in the approaching struggle with the English. Whatever its utility to Spain in Europe, this treaty marked the beginning of the end for Spain’s North American empire by yielding control over the Mississippi and by surrendering the strategic posts north of the thirty-first parallel and east of the Mississippi.


British Strategy And Southern Indians: War Of 1812, John K. Mahon May 2021

British Strategy And Southern Indians: War Of 1812, John K. Mahon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hardly had land operations commenced in Canada during the War of 1812, when British officers in North America and adjacent waters began to recommend a diversion somewhere to the southward to relieve the pressure at the north. As early as November 1812, Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, British commander on the North American station, suggested the shores of the Gulf of Mexico as the proper place, especially New Orleans. Seizure of that city, he said, would throttle the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, which were then spearheading the war against Upper Canada.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 44, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


British Designs On The Old Southwest: Foreign Intrigue On The Florida Frontier, 1783-1803, J. Leitch Wright, Jr. May 2021

British Designs On The Old Southwest: Foreign Intrigue On The Florida Frontier, 1783-1803, J. Leitch Wright, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

It is widely recognized that for years after the American Revolution Britain played an important role in the affairs of the Old Northwest. In spite of the peace treaty’s provisions, she continued to occupy military posts ceded to the United States. Using these posts as centers, Canadian traders continued to monopolize most of the Indian commerce north of the Ohio, and the Indians in this vast region still looked to Detroit, Niagara, and Quebec, rather than to New York, Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia for commercial and political leadership. In theory the Old Northwest was an integral part of the United States; …


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


The Siege Of Pensacola: An Order Of Battle, Albert W. Haarmann May 2021

The Siege Of Pensacola: An Order Of Battle, Albert W. Haarmann

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Siege of Pensacola by the Spanish in 1781 has been generally ignored in most military histories of the American Revolution. In some accounts brief reference is made to it, but by and large, it is part of a forgotten theater of that war. Admittedly it is easy to observe that Continental or Patriot forces were not involved and therefore this campaign cannot properly be considered within the scope of our Revolution. On the other hand, we cannot ignore a campaign that involved approximately 10,000 combatants and the outcome of which gave us a relatively peaceful neighbor on our southern …


The Florida Land And Colonization Company, Richard J. Amundson May 2021

The Florida Land And Colonization Company, Richard J. Amundson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Land and Colonization Company, Limited, came into being as a result of Henry S. Sanford’s desire to make his Florida real estate holdings pay bigger dividends. In the years following the Civil War, Sanford, then minister to Belgium, had invested in the South - a cotton plantation in South Carolina, a sugar plantation in Louisiana, and a large block (approximately 23,000 acres) of undeveloped land on Lake Monroe in Florida, the so-called Sanford Grant. Sanford proposed to turn a portion of his land in Florida into a model orange grove and sell the remainder to others who he …


The Delaney Murder Case, Helen Hornbeck Tanner May 2021

The Delaney Murder Case, Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Florida Historical Quarterly

The only violent crime to disrupt life in St. Augustine in the early years of the Second Spanish Period was a murderous attack the night of November 20, 1785, on Lieutenant Guillermo Delaney. Since the town’s annals provide almost no reference to such malevolence, this incident appears to be a distinct exception to the general behavior pattern. The crime remains unsolved; yet the evidence accumulated in an effort to identify Delaney’s assailants provides a rare view of Florida colonial society.


A French Report On St. Augustine In The 1770s, Lee Kennett May 2021

A French Report On St. Augustine In The 1770s, Lee Kennett

Florida Historical Quarterly

The original of this unsigned undated report is preserved in the French War Archives at Vincennes in the Memoires Historiques series, carton 1681, document 6. It is most probably the work of a French officer who arrived in Charleston late in 1777 and was subsequently captured by the British and held prisoner at St. Augustine. The importance which the author assigns to St. Augustine as a blockading base would indicate that neither Charleston nor Savannah had fallen to the British at the time the report was written. A report on Charleston in the same handwriting (document 7) can be dated …


Janas In British East Florida, Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr. May 2021

Janas In British East Florida, Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Seven Years' War in Europe offically ended in Paris on February 10, 1763, with England actively solving the Anglo-French contest for colonial and commercial supremacy in North America. France was in a state of bankruptcy. Spain, a long standing opponent of England, suffered defeat and consequent loss of colonial territory. Spain had entered the war at a rather late hour, and England quickly captured Havana and Manila. At Paris, Spain suffered the loss of Florida, fishing rights in Newfoundland waters, and lumber rights in Honduras. England became the undisputed mistress of the seas; George III became the leading monarch …


The East Florida Indians Under Spanish And English Control: 1763-1765, Robert L. Gold May 2021

The East Florida Indians Under Spanish And English Control: 1763-1765, Robert L. Gold

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida was smoothly transferred from Spanish to British control following ratification of the 1763 Treaty of Paris. Spain regretfully traded her St. Augustine province in North America to Great Britain for Cuba, which had surrendered to an English onslaught during the Seven Years’ War. Despite the illegal property transactions of England and Spain, the two nations generally observed most of the international provisions of the Paris pact during the transfer of eighteenth-century Florida. The exchange of colonial rule in the province was therefore marred by surprisingly few moments of discord. The entire transfer process, of course, was accommodated by the …


Funerals And Fiestas In Early Eighteenth Century St. Augustine, John J. Tepaske May 2021

Funerals And Fiestas In Early Eighteenth Century St. Augustine, John J. Tepaske

Florida Historical Quarterly

The drab social life of early eighteenth-century St. Augustine contrasted sharply with the glitter and pomp of life in the viceregal centers of New Spain and Peru. Amusements, which gave pleasure to the people of Mexico City and Lima, were unknown in this fringe outpost of the Spanish Empire in America. The soldiers of the Castillo de San Marcos and their wives and children had little opportunity to enjoy plays, operas, tournaments of poetasters, bull fights, cock fights, horse racing, parades, mock jousts, or the joyous recibimiento. Even the dubious pleasures to be obtained from the inquisitorial auto de fe …


Drake Destroys St. Augustine: 1586, James W. Covington May 2021

Drake Destroys St. Augustine: 1586, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sir Francis Drake, scourge of the Spanish Main, came to Florida and destroyed St. Augustine in 1586. Judging from other battles that took place during Drake’s swing through Spain’s Caribbean empire, the Florida episode was a relatively minor affair. St. Augustine at the time was a small out-of-the-way village of about 300 persons with its only defense the small outpost, San Juan de los Pinillos. In contrast to the splendid buildings, numerous soldiers, and excellent defenses of Santo Domingo and Cartagena, St. Augustine was not very important. But in defensive tactics and in its use of manpower, the Florida town …


The Man Who Was Pedro Menendez, Albert Manucy May 2021

The Man Who Was Pedro Menendez, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

Four sixteenth century sources are the basis for most of the knowledge that we have about Pedro Menendez de Aviles. They include archival manuscripts, biographies by two of his contemporaries, and a priest’s journal of the voyage to Florida. Titian painted him by order of Philip II, and the portrait engraving so often reproduced is based on the painting. He is not a handsome man; his head is small, held quite erect; dark hair, half curly despite a rather close cut, frames a high, round forehead. The beard is also trimmed short. His nose is overlong and the mouth too …


Jean Ribault's Colonies In Florida, M. Adele Francis Gorman May 2021

Jean Ribault's Colonies In Florida, M. Adele Francis Gorman

Florida Historical Quarterly

A story often told but still begging for a fuller explanation is the tale of the French settlers in sixteenth century Florida. It is possible to determine to an extent why they came, where they settled and how they fared, what happened to them, and the strong points and weak points in their organization. What is more illusive is the measure of sincerity in their undertaking. A few questions which baffle the historian arise, and there are only partial answers to some of the questions. Was the motive for colonization religious ? Did the English, especially Queen Elizabeth I, collaborate …


Altar And Hearth: The Coming Of Christianity, Michael V. Gannon May 2021

Altar And Hearth: The Coming Of Christianity, Michael V. Gannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Catholic Church in this Country does not begin her history after colonies were formed, and men had looked to their temporal well-being. Her priests were among the explorers of the coast, were the pioneers of the vast interior; with Catholic settlers came the minister of God, and Mass was said to hallow the land and draw down the blessing of heaven before the first step was taken to rear a human habitation. The altar was older than the hearth.


The Exploration Of Florida And Sources On The Founding Of St. Augustine, Luis Rafael Arana May 2021

The Exploration Of Florida And Sources On The Founding Of St. Augustine, Luis Rafael Arana

Florida Historical Quarterly

Four hundred years ago, Europeans made the first permanent settlement within the present limits of the United States. These were Spaniards who under Pedro Menendez de Aviles established St. Augustine in 1565, upon land discovered fifty-two years earlier. In the interval between discovery and colonization, the coast of Florida had been gradually charted and portions of the interior explored. Though all attempts at planting the civilization of Spain in the new land failed until Menendez appeared on the scene, the discoveries of Juan Ponce de Leon, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Panfilo de Narvaez, and Hernando de Soto gradually outlined the …


Contents Of Volume Xliv, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contents Of Volume Xliv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 44


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, news from Florida's historical societies


A South Carolina Lawyer Visits St. Augustine - 1837, John Hammond Moore May 2021

A South Carolina Lawyer Visits St. Augustine - 1837, John Hammond Moore

Florida Historical Quarterly

Just why Henry Summer, a young South Carolina lawyer, journeyed to Florida in the winter of 1837 is not clear. This account, entitled simply “Journal &c. for 1837,” indicates his purpose was to search court records in St. Augustine-perhaps for Judge John Belton O’Neall, a noted jurist with whom he was associated. Born in 1809 of distinguished German stock, Henry was one of six sons. One brother, William (1815-78), became a horticulturist of some note and gave the name Pomaria to the Newberry County community where he lived. Another, Adam (1818-66), was a well-known Columbia printer. As this narrative makes …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Tanner, Zespedes in East Florida, 1784-1790, by John J. TePaske; King, The Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon, by Charles W. Arnade; Fritz, Unknown Florida, by James W. Covington; Dovell, History of Banking in Florida: First Supplement, 1954-1963, by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.; Caruso, The Southern Frontier, by Robert L. Gold


Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson May 2021

Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Henry Shelton Sandord, direct descendant of Thomas Sanford who had come to Massachusetts in the 1630’s, made many contributions to the economic welfare of the United States and particularly to Florida, his “adopted state.” Sanford’s foresight and his sizable investments promoted the growth and prosperity of the orange culture in central Florida. His adoption of modern equipment and scientific methods of cultivation, including selective cross-breeding of citrus stocks and the use of irrigation, speeded the so-called “orange revolution” which occurred in the post-Civil War period. Progress and change, however, often are opposed, and so it was with Sanford’s efforts to …


The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze May 2021

The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early in February 1864, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, commanding the Federal Department of the South with headquarters at Hilton Head, South Carolina, ordered Brigadier General Truman Seymour, commander of the District of Hilton Head, to prepare his forces for a seaborne expedition. Subsequent orders, issued after the embarkation of the troops, directed the expedition to the east coast of Florida. On February 7, Seymour’s forces reached the mouth of the St. Johns River. They ascended the river to Jacksonville and soon took possession of the town. Meeting only token resistance in the area, they began raiding operations outward from …


Mckenna Johnston Oral History Interview 4/18/2021, Mckenna M. Johnston, Tony Atkinson, Cheri Atkinson May 2021

Mckenna Johnston Oral History Interview 4/18/2021, Mckenna M. Johnston, Tony Atkinson, Cheri Atkinson

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

No abstract provided.


The Annual Meeting, May 7-9, 1964, Florida Historical Society May 2021

The Annual Meeting, May 7-9, 1964, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The officers and directors of the Florida Historical Society held its annual meeting at 8:00 p.m., May 7, 1964, in the conference room of the Everglades Hotel in Miami. The following board members were in attendance: Frank B. Sessa, James R. Knott, Lucius B. Ruder, Thelma Peters, Margaret Chapman, H. J. Doherty, Jr., Adam G. Adams, Charles W. Arnade, Mrs. John T. Bills, Mrs. Ralph Davis, Mrs. John R. Dubois, Walter R. Hellier, James H. Lipscomb, III, Ben C. Willis, and Samuel Proctor.


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local and area societies and commissions


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Stetson University and Florida Baptists: A Documentary History of Relations between Stetson University and the Florida Baptist Convention. By Harry C. Garwood. Edited by Edward A. Holmes, Jr. (DeLand: Florida Baptist Historical Society, 1962. vii, 262 pp. Foreword, preface, notes, index. $2.75.); A Wake in Ybor City. By Jose Yglesias. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. 284 pp. $4.95.); Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education. By James B. Conant. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. 164 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $5.00.); The Confederate Constitution. By Charles Robert Lee, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Aristocrat in Uniform: General Duncan L. Clinch. By Rembert W. Patrick. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press for the Florida Historical Society, 1963. xi, 226 pp. Preface, illustrations, notes, map, bibliography, index. $5.50.); The History of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. By Leedell W. Neyland and John W. Riley. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963. xi, 303 pp. Foreword, preface, illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index. $6.50.); Pirates, Indians, and Spaniards: Father Escobedo's “La Florida.” Edited by James W. Covington. Translated by A. E. Falcones. (St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Company, 1963. xvi, 174 pp. Foreword, introduction, footnotes, index, maps. $5.00.); …


A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch May 2021

A British Report On West Florida And Louisiana, November, 1812, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

After returning the two Floridas to Spain by the Treaty of Paris of 1783, England watched with satisfaction while her thirteen former colonies struggled to reach agreement with the government in Madrid on the thorny problem of the southeastern boundary. The Treaty of San Lorenzo of 1795 failed to satisfy either party and the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 further confused the problem by introducing boundary claims in the region west of the Mississippi River. The suggestion to use force to achieve a permanent settlement with Spain was heard with increasing frequency in Washington. Even Thomas Jefferson, in retirement at Monticello, …


The Indian River Settlement: 1842-1849, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr. May 2021

The Indian River Settlement: 1842-1849, Joseph D. Cushman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

No section of the Territory of Florida suffered more than the east coast as a result of Indian deprecations during the Seminole War. The flourishing sugar plantations of the Halifax country were reduced to charred ruins, the tiny port of New Smyrna was entirely deserted, and the infant citrus industry suffered a staggering setback just as it was beginning to show signs of prosperity. After seven years of fighting, many Floridians gravely doubted the truth of General William Worth’s pontifical pronouncement that the Seminole conflict would be “officially” terminated on August 12, 1842. The settlers were alarmed at the naivete …