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Letters From East Florida, Dorothy Dodd Dec 2020

Letters From East Florida, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before the outbreak of the Seminole Indian War in 1835 the northern counties of East Florida were increasing in population at a faster rate than Middle and West Florida. Although the country was but sparsely settled there were a number of flourishing plantations, but these were laid waste by the Indians during the next seven years and immigration into that section almost entirely ceased. On the termination of the war in 1842, Congress passed a temporary free homestead act to encourage settlers to come into the section that had been the seat of the war in the hope that settlement …

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Some Experiences Of Bishop Young, Edgar Legare Pennington Dec 2020

Some Experiences Of Bishop Young, Edgar Legare Pennington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The entwining network or railroads and inproved highways has practically obliterated all recollection of the handicaps of travel in Florida a few decades ago. It is hard to realize that the journey made in a few hours today required days - even weeks - in the years which followed the War Between the STates. So accustomed are we to thinking of our centres of population as bustling, wide-awake cities that we seldom picture them as isolated and crude communities or wretched little fishing-towns. Yet such conditions prevailed; and the second Episcopal Bishop of FLorida, the Right REverend John Freeman Young, …

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The Fortifications At San Marcos De Apalache, Mark F. Boyd Dec 2020

The Fortifications At San Marcos De Apalache, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The region of Apalache and of its bay on the Gulf coast seem to have been ignored by the Spaniards following the departure of De Soto from this vicinity after overwintering here in 1539-40. Certainly we are not aware of its further mention in available records until the arrival of the Christianizing Franciscan fathers in 1633, who probably, as did De Soto, came overland,, but in the latter instance from St. Augustine.

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Edmund Kirby Smith’S Boyhood In Florida, Joseph B. James Dec 2020

Edmund Kirby Smith’S Boyhood In Florida, Joseph B. James

Florida Historical Quarterly

Edmund Kirby Smith, who became one of the few full generals of the Confederate Army during the War Between the States, was born in St. Augustine, May 16, 1824. He was the second of Judge Joseph Lee Smith, who had left Connecticut in 1823 to become one of the two judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Florida. President Monroe had appointed Judge Smith to that post in the new territorial government that was then being set up by the United States after the acquisition of Florida from Spain in 1821.

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The Transfer Of Fort San Marcos And East Florida To The United States, Rogers W. Young Dec 2020

The Transfer Of Fort San Marcos And East Florida To The United States, Rogers W. Young

Florida Historical Quarterly

Spanish Florida, comprising the provinces of East and West Florida, was ceded to the United States under the provisions of the “Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty,” of February 22, 1819. The treaty was signed in Washington by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and Louis de Onis, the Spanish Minister to the United States. Ratifications of the treaty were delayed, but on October 24, 1820, Ferdinand VII of Spain affixed his ratification and confirmation, while acceptance on the part of the United States Senate followed on February 19, Three …

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East Florida Seminary - Micanopy, C. L. Crow Dec 2020

East Florida Seminary - Micanopy, C. L. Crow

Florida Historical Quarterly

For some eight years there existed in Florida, less than thirty miles apart, two schools founded at approximately the same time and bearing similar names: the one, “East Florida State Seminary, located in Ocala and controlled by the State; the other, “East Florida Seminary”, established in Micanopy and, at least nominally, under the care of the Florida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This Conference, it may be said in passing, extended at the time from Key West to Albany and from the Atlantic to Apalachicola, thus covering all Middle and East Florida and that part of Georgia lying …

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The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, 1824. Part Ii, Mark F. Boyd Dec 2020

The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, 1824. Part Ii, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey And Construction Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, Part I, Mark F. Boyd Dec 2020

The First American Road In Florida: Papers Relating To The Survey And Construction Of The Pensacola-St. Augustine Highway, Part I, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

In these days of paved highways and of swift private transportation, accounts of early efforts to improve communications have a great interest. After American occupation of the territory of Florida, the inaccessibility of the only centers of population to each other soon attracted interest. This resulted in the projection and construction of the old Pensacola-St. Augustine highway, today an abandoned and almost forgotten route across the state, but interesting as the first instance of American road construction in Florida, as well as the fact that the eastern half would appear to follow one of the early Spanish routes from St. …

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Market Driven Residential Energy Codes: Comparing Performance In A Changing Technical Environment, Code Official Survey Results, Florida Solar Energy Center, Karen Fenaughty Dec 2020

Market Driven Residential Energy Codes: Comparing Performance In A Changing Technical Environment, Code Official Survey Results, Florida Solar Energy Center, Karen Fenaughty

FSEC Energy Research Center®

The DOE Code Survey conducted for this project was launched on 2/18/2020 and closed 3/20/2020. There were 907 participants responding to at least some portion of the 48 question survey, though some questions received poor attention. Note that the number of responses to each question varies by design and depends on answers to prior questions. Further, multiple answers are sometimes allowed.

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Paw Patrol, Bree Watson Dec 2020

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Paw Patrol, Bree Watson

UCF Forum

I thought we’d avoid it, but it’s simply unavoidable. The animated allure of talking dogs is just too strong for preschoolers to resist.

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A Foot-Note To Captain Young’S Itineraries: Letters Of Jeremy Robinson, Joseph B. Lockey Dec 2020

A Foot-Note To Captain Young’S Itineraries: Letters Of Jeremy Robinson, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Topographical Memoir on East and West Florida With Itineraries of General Jackson’s Army, by Capt. Hugh Young of that army, appeared in the last three issues of the Quarterly. Another series on the same general subject of roads and travel in Florida in the early nineteenth century will be begun in the October number next: papers relating to the survey and construction of the Pensacola-St. Augustine highway, arranged and with an introduction by Mark F. Boyd to whom we are indebted for the Young memoir.

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Fort Marion During The Seminole War, Rogers W. Young Dec 2020

Fort Marion During The Seminole War, Rogers W. Young

Florida Historical Quarterly

The news that the Seminoles had begun hostilities in Florida spread slowly early in January, 1836. The intelligence stirred the country, however. The War Department had heard of the Dade’ massacre and of other Indian atrocities as early as January 4, but it was not until January 17 that it received official verification of the battle of the Withlacoochee.

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A Topographical Memoir On East And West Florida With Itineraries (Continued), Hugh Young Dec 2020

A Topographical Memoir On East And West Florida With Itineraries (Continued), Hugh Young

Florida Historical Quarterly

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A Topographical Memoir On East And West Florida With Itineraries, Hugh Young Dec 2020

A Topographical Memoir On East And West Florida With Itineraries, Hugh Young

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a communication from General Jackson addressed to the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, from Fort Gadsden, May 5, 1818, there occurs the following statement: “For a detailed account of my movements from that period to this day, you are respectfully referred to the report prepared by my adjutant general, accompanied with Captain Hugh Young’s topographical sketch of the route and distance performed”. This evidently refers to the memoir and itineraries here presented.

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The Manufacture Of Cotton In Florida Before And During The Civil War, Dorothy Dodd Dec 2020

The Manufacture Of Cotton In Florida Before And During The Civil War, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The fluctuating price of cotton in the 1840’s caused the cotton planters of Florida, like their brethren in other parts of the South, to consider ways in which they might stabilize the price of their staple crop in order to stave off economic ruin. 1 Numerous proposals were made to this end, 2 but none met with more widespread response throughout the South than that. of bringing the cotton mill to the cotton field by establishing cotton manufactories throughout the cotton producing regions.

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The Florida Intrigues Of Jose Alvarez De Toledo, Joseph B. Lockey Dec 2020

The Florida Intrigues Of Jose Alvarez De Toledo, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

This article is an outgrowth of an extended project undertaken by the writer for the Florida State Historical Society. The material upon which it is based consists in part of photostatic reproductions of documents provided by this Society, and in part of like material loaned by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The Research Board of the University of California has generously given the project financial support. To all these agencies the writer acknowledges his indebtedness.

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The Panton, Leslie Papers: James Innerarity To John Forbes, James Innerarity Dec 2020

The Panton, Leslie Papers: James Innerarity To John Forbes, James Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is in continuation of the series of records of Panton, Leslie & Co. and its successor, John Forbes & Co., the publication of which has been continuous in the Quarterly. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade who has transcribed them.

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Apalachee During The Brisih Occupation, R. E. Pittman Dec 2020

Apalachee During The Brisih Occupation, R. E. Pittman

Florida Historical Quarterly

According to Prof. F. H. Hodder, in the introduction to his reprint of Pittman’s work entitled “The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi,” there are but few available biographical data pertaining to Pittman. Hodder there presents such information as he was able to collect. Apparently Pittman must have accompanied the first British detachment occupying Florida, he states that he “resided four years as an engineer in those parts” and it is known that he left towards the close of 1768. Apparently during 1767 he was occupied in making surveys in different parts of West Florida, as records …

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Edmund Ruffin's Account Of The Florida Secession Convention, 1861, Edmund Ruffin Dec 2020

Edmund Ruffin's Account Of The Florida Secession Convention, 1861, Edmund Ruffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following account of the Florida secession convention is taken from the manuscript diary of Edmund Ruffin in the Library of Congress. Ruffin was perhaps the most eminent southern authority on agriculture in the twenty years preceding the Civil War and his experiments in soil fertility, described in his Essays on Calcareous Manures and in the columns of the Farmers’ Register which he edited, brought an agricultural renaissance to his native Virginia. Ruffin early became convinced that the interests of the agricultural South demanded that she cut loose from the Industrial North and form a Southern Confederacy. So ardent were …

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Letters Of John Innerarity And A. H. Gordon, John Innerarity Dec 2020

Letters Of John Innerarity And A. H. Gordon, John Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

These letters are in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie & Co., the publication of which has been continuous in the Quarterly. They are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, who has transcribed them.

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Records Of Panton, Leslie And Company, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Records Of Panton, Leslie And Company, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

These documents are in continuation of the series, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie & Co. and its successor John Forbes & Co., the publication of which has been continuous in the QUARTERLY. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade who has transcribed them.

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The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, James C. Bronaugh Dec 2020

The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, James C. Bronaugh

Florida Historical Quarterly

The legislative council of Florida met and organized at Pensacola on the 22d July. The governor administered the oath to the members to support the constitution of the United States, &c. A motion was made by Mr. Miller to proceed to elect. a president-the council adjourned without going into an election. On the 23d the council having met, Mr. Bronaugh was called to the chair, when they proceeded to elect a president, and the choice was unanimous of James C. Bronaugh, esq. of Pensacola.

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Walker Anderson, 1801-1857, Julia J. Yonge Dec 2020

Walker Anderson, 1801-1857, Julia J. Yonge

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the leaders of men who worked to lay the foundation for Florida’s statehood and her subsequent growth, Walker Anderson must not be forgotten.

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Anthropology In Florida, Rhea M. Smith Dec 2020

Anthropology In Florida, Rhea M. Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any attempt to investigate the origin and customs of the aborigines of Florida through reliance on written materials is almost immediately frustrated by the paucity of such material and the scantiness of data available. Even an attempt to summarize the work done by field investigators leads to the baffling task of trying to reconcile conflicting theories, a condition that arises from the fact that the conclusions reached as to the origin, antiquity, and life of the early peoples of Florida are so indefinite. Yet there are few regions in the United States more abundantly supplied with mounds that call for …

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William Pope Duval: Pioneer And State Builder, James Owen Knauss Dec 2020

William Pope Duval: Pioneer And State Builder, James Owen Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

The life of William Pope DuVal, the first civil governor of the territory of Florida, should be an attractive study for anyone who is interested in the colorful characters of our frontier history. He belongs to the same class of pioneers as Sam Houston of Texas. Frontiersmen of this type not only were among the vanguard as settlers but also remained long in the new settlements as leaders in their development. Hence, a study of DuVal’s life, while interesting for many reasons, is particularly important because it enables us to see a cross section of the history of Florida between …

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General Wilkinson's Occupation Of Mobile, April 1813, James Innerarity Dec 2020

General Wilkinson's Occupation Of Mobile, April 1813, James Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie and Company preserved by the family of John Innerarity, a partner of that firm and its successor John Forbes and Company, the publication of which has been continuous in the QUARTERLY. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, who has transcribed them.

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How The Spaniards Evacuated Pensacola In 1763, Wilbur H. Siebert Dec 2020

How The Spaniards Evacuated Pensacola In 1763, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

The documents on which this article is based are all contained in Folder 228, General Archives of the Indies, Seville (Santo Domingo, Louisiana and Florida, 86-7-11).

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A Letter Of James Innerarity Of William Panton's Estate, John Innerarity Dec 2020

A Letter Of James Innerarity Of William Panton's Estate, John Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie and Co. preserved by the family of John Innerarity, a partner of that firm, the publication of which has been continuous in the QUARTERLY. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, who has transcribed them.

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International Rivalry In The Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency Of Alexander Mcgillivray 1783-1789, Lawrence Kinnaird Dec 2020

International Rivalry In The Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency Of Alexander Mcgillivray 1783-1789, Lawrence Kinnaird

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Creek nation with its lands situated in regions claimed both by Spain and the United States occupied a strategic position at the close of the War of the American Revolution. Since no treaty existed between the two countries the question of boundaries was left entirely for future determination. The Spaniards desired to extend the limits of the Floridas as far northward as possible; while the Americans wished to establish the boundary near the Gulf as specified in the treaty with Great Britain.

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United States Troops In Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, Part V, T. Frederick Davis Dec 2020

United States Troops In Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, Part V, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the preceding issues of the QUARTERLY, starting with July, 1930, we followed the career of a detachment of United States regulars during their occupancy of Spanish East Florida beginning March 18, 1812, as told by their commander, Col. Thomas A. Smith, in his official and semi-official correspondence, much of which has never appeared in print before. The last issue brought the story to the time when Col. Smith turned the command over to Maj. Lawrence Manning, of the 8th U.S. Infantry, and bade adieu to the little detachment that he had led into the Spanish province more than a …

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