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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 …

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 Spring Grove Guards, Samuel E. Cobb

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was in the spring of 1835, a few months before the actual commencement of that long, harrassing conflict between the Indians of Florida and the whites. Pioneer settlers in Florida had been subject to sporadic attacks by the Indians for many months. A few lives had been lost but, at this time, the conflict between the Indians, who claimed prior possession of the country, and the whites, who claimed ownership under the treaties of 1823 and 1832 had hardly reached a state of warfare.

Seminole Flight From Fort Marion, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Antillean Problem In Florida Archeology, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost since the beginning of archeological studies in Florida the problem of aboriginal relations between Florida and the Antilles has concerned investigators. Many similarities, both archeological and ethnological, between the two areas have been noted. It shall be the purpose of this paper to discuss several aspects of the problem.

A Hitherto Unknown Map Of The Pensacola Coastal Region, 1762, R. H. Barlow

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the Sala de Cartografia of the State Museum of Jalisco (Mexico) in Guadalajara, exists a vellum map bearing the number 25. It is the entire hide of a small animal, drawn on in red, green and black. At the bottom is written the following:

“Carta reducida de la costa de Panzacola desde el cavo [sic] del norte, hasta el de S. Blas, corregida nuevamente, por D. Estevan de Ayarragaray, piloto de esta ensenada, y la dirige al exelmo Sor Marques de Cruillas, ***rrey de esta Nueva Espana, por orden del Sr. Diego Ortiz Parilla, governador del presidio de Panzacola. …

The Florida Census Of 1825, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Legislative Council that met in Tallahassee in November and December 1824 provided, by an act approved December 28, for the taking of a census in each county of the Territory. The census was to be taken by the receivers of tax returns in 1825 at the same time that they received returns of taxable persons or property. Each county census was to show the names of heads of families, names of white males over 21 years of age, names of white males under 21 years, names of white females over 21 years, names of white females under 21 years, …

Report Of The President And Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Milly Francis And Duncan Mckrimmon, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hillis Hadjo, known in English as Francis the Prophet, was a Creek chief of considerable prominence. When the famous Indian Tecumseh visited the Creek Indians during the opening phase of the War of 1812 to enlist them in the cause of the British, Francis became his convert. He was then living near the Chattahoochee river in the present state of Alabama. In the campaign of General Andrew Jackson in 1813-14 against the Creeks, Francis was driven into Spanish Florida and finally took up his abode near the Spanish Fort St. Marks.

George J. F. Clarke, 1774-1836, Louise Biles Hill

Florida Historical Quarterly

Here is a man who was an English colonial by birth, a Spanish citizen by naturalization, and died an American citizen by virtue of the treaty through which the United States acquired the Floridas. All occurred in St. Augustine!-though some of his mature years were spent in Fernandina and in St. Marys, Georgia.

New Books, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of: Curley : Church and State in the Spanish Floridas; Haggard: Handbook for Translators of Spanish Historical Documents; Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the North Carolina Historical Commission; Venable : William Adam Hocker (1844-1918) Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida

Source Materials Of Florida History In The John Carter Brown Library Of Brown University, Lawrence C. Wroth

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his search for the rarest of historical material on colonial Florida, the historian will find in the John Carter Brown Library a good part of all that is available anywhere. There an extraordinary collection of source materials on the history of North, South, and Central America of the period before 1801 has been brought together for the use of scholars. More than four hundred titles, many of the utmost rarity and some unique, have been listed in that library for the Union Catalog of Floridiana. The most important of these have been selected and are described here by Dr. …

Colonial Pensacola: The British Period. Part Iii, Clinton N. Howard

Florida Historical Quarterly

Governor Peter Chester arrived in Pensacola, capital of the province of West Florida, during the summer of 1770. On the eleventh of August the new governor, together with the members of his council, took the oaths and subscribed to the declaration required of all colonial officials.

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Better Parenting Through Western Civ, David Head

UCF Forum

I enjoy teaching the history course Western Civilization because it has great tips for parenting. I have three children—ages 6, 4 and 21 months—and my wife and I face a problem common to the rulers of the ancient world’s great empires: how to maintain order among an unruly population when you are outnumbered.

Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 38th annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society was held at the Sawano Club, Quincy, Florida, at three-thirty o’clock in the afternoon, on Thursday, March 28, 1940.

The Tekesta Indians Of Southern Florida, John Mann Groggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Tekesta Indians at the time of the discovery of America occupied a portion of southeastern Florida. This area seems to have comprised the greater part of Dade county and possibly to have extended north to Pompano in Broward county. To the south toward Cape Sable it is difficult to tell where the boundary between the Calusa and the Tekesta was, although Barcia says there was a Tekesta village named Abayoa at the southern extremity of the Florida peninsula (probably Cape Sable). (Barcia, Ensayo 2, bibliography, post). However, archaeological evidence seems to indicate that sites about Cape Sable are more …

The First Protestant Service In North America, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

At dusk on April 30, 1562, two small vessels anchored off the bar of a river which was unknown to them, but which long afterwards became the St. Johns. Gaspard de Coligny, admiral of France and champion of the cause of the Huguenots, had decided upon America as a refuge from religious strife for his countrymen of the Protestant faith, who at the same time would create a new dominion by colonization, thereby extending the territorial possessions of France. These. two vessels under the command of Jean Ribault, 1 a native of Dieppe and a Huguenot, had been sent to …

The Timucua Indians Of Sixteenth Century Florida, W. W. Ehrmann

Florida Historical Quarterly

When first visited by the Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth century, northern Florida was inhabited by the Timucua family of Indians. Their territory was bounded approximately on the west by the Aucilla River, on the north by a line running just north of the present Georgia-Florida state line from the Aucilla River on the west to Cumberland Island on the east, and on the south by a line extending from Tampa Bay to Cape Canaveral.

The St. Augustine Census Of 1786, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

St. Augustine was the chief center of population in colonial Florida. It was not however at any time a town of considerable size. Indeed, the whole white population of East and West Florida in the first Spanish period never exceeded a few thousand at most. The explanation is simple. There were greater attractions elsewhere. Unlike Mexico and the other mainland regions to the south, Florida had no mines to be exploited, no extensive fields already prepared for cultivation, and no Indian serfs to do the white man’s bidding. Nor did it possess the conditions of soil and climate which made …

The Parentage And Birthplace Of Osceola, Charles H. Coe

Florida Historical Quarterly

It is commonly believed that the famous Seminole Indian chief, Osceola, 3 hero of the long and costly Seminole War, was the son of an Englishman named Powell, a trader among the Creek Indians of Georgia, by a Creek Indian woman.

Spanish Mission Sites In Florida, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The story of the mission settlements established by the Franciscan fathers in northern Florida subsequent to 1633 still awaits telling. It cannot be adequately told until the Spanish archives are carefully searched.

Debrahm’S Report On East Florida, 1773, Carita Doggett Corse

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most detailed of the early reports on the Florida peninsula is that of John Gerard William DeBrahm, Surveyor General of the southern district of North America for George III of England. His observations on Florida are contained in a work entitled “History of the Three Provinces, South Carolina, Georgia and East Florida,” in manuscript in the British Museum, with a copy in Harvard University Library. The South Carolina and Georgia sections of this report have been printed but the Florida material is still only in manuscript. A great benefit would be conferred upon students of Colonial Florida if this …

St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, James O. Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

No subject within the wide range of Florida’s history has stirred a greater interest than St. Joseph. Because of its quick rise to importance, its still more rapid decline, and the double tragedy of its extinction, an aspect of romance has settled upon the dead town, heightened through tradition and a haze of unreality engendered by the lack of definite records of its life. Dr. Knauss, searching out and bringing together these scanty records, gives us a light, for the first time, to penetrate that mist. - Ed .

The St. Joseph Convention Iii: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins

Florida Historical Quarterly

At last the work of the convention drew to a close. The differences that arose as the various articles of the constitution were reported by each committee were finally adjusted and the proposed constitution was ready to be submitted to the house. Nearly six weeks had passed since the convention had assembled. Many acquaintances had been made, friendships formed, and associations enjoyed, and now this was the last day. The convention would pass into history, and many were never to meet again. We cannot do better than quote from the journal.

The Arrival Of De Soto’S Expedition In Florida, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first account of the De Soto expedition to appear in print was the Relecam verdadeira dos trabalhos q ho governador do Fernado de souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passarom no descobrimeto da provincia da Frolida, Agora novamete feita per hu fidalgo de Elvas, which was published in Evora, Portugal in 1557.

The Landing Place Of De Soto, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

It admits of no reasonable doubt that the place where Hernando de Soto’s army landed, at the end of May, 1539, was in Tampa Bay. Although I have considered other possibilities carefully I shall not enter upon a discussion of them in the present article. But while there has been almost unanimous agreement on this point, the exact location of the landing place within the bay has given occasion for very sharp differences of opinion for over a hundred years and almost every possible site has been made the basis for someone’s theory. Too many of these hypotheses have been …

Using Zoom Polling Feature To Increase Student Engagement And Learning, Alyssa L. Albrecht, Ashley Rae Salter

Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository

Utilizing the Zoom Polling feature is an efficient way to establish check-ins and provide students with active learning opportunities. Follow-up discussions regarding polling results can be applied to alter or shift instructional approaches. This strategy increases student engagement and learning in online or remote courses.

Packages, Packages, Everywhere, And None Of Them Quite Right, Tina H. Buck

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In this presentation to the 2021 Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference (delivered online on March 11, 2021), I described the challenges involved in identifying the correct package (or collection or database) in a library knowledge base such as multiple entries with very similar names; incorrect number of holdings; or incorrect URLs (links). Drawing from experience using the EBSCO Holdings and Link Management kb and preparing to migrate to Alma, I developed concepts for unique package identifiers to improve confidence, efficiency, and accuracy in library workflows and migration and in the discovery layer used by library patrons.