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Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


From A Remote Frontier, Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

From A Remote Frontier, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters and Reports Passing Between the Commanders at Apalache (St. Marks), Governor Grant at St. Augustine, General Haldimand at Pensacola, John Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and General Gage, Commander-in-Chief, at New York, 1768-1769


God’S Protecting Providence: A Journal Of Jonathan Dickinson, Charles M. Andrews Mar 2021

God’S Protecting Providence: A Journal Of Jonathan Dickinson, Charles M. Andrews

Florida Historical Quarterly

Toward the end of September, 1696, a group of shipwrecked people found themselves the captives of a petty tribe of Florida Indians in an Indian town, five miles south of the place of their disaster and about eighteen miles north of the present island of Palm Beach on the south side of a body of water now known as Jupiter Inlet. Nearby was one of the many oyster-shell mounds of the eastern coast of Florida, which is still there though much reduced in size. In this Indian town the members of the ship’s company remained for two days, not ill-treated …


Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Castle St. Mark And The Patriots Of The Revolution, Albert Manucy Mar 2021

Castle St. Mark And The Patriots Of The Revolution, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS is a token of Spain’s determination to protect her vast New World riches in the face of seemingly inexorable English rivalry, encroachment, and actual piracy. This aged citadel, renamed Fort Marion by the Americans, is now Castillo de San Marcos National Monument at St. Augustine. Engineer Ignacio Daza laid the first stone for the foundations in 1672, and the fort became a focal point of colonial culture - Spain’s last impregnable outpost on the shores of the North Atlantic. Now, with the passage of two and a half centuries, it represents to us something of the …


That “Odd Being” De Brahm, Charles L. Mowat Mar 2021

That “Odd Being” De Brahm, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the many interesting and distinguished figures who in one way or another were connected with the small community of British East Florida during its brief history none is more intriguing than its first surveyor general, William Gerrard De Brahm. A man whose versatility of genius went beyond even that of the typical eighteenth-century dilettante: a surveyor, engineer, botanist, astronomer, meteorologist, student of ocean currents, alchemist, sociologist, historian and mystical philosopher; he was also something of an eccentric in character, whose peculiarities are heightened for us by the odd ways in which his imperfect knowledge of the English tongue expressed …


From A Remote Frontier: San Marcos De Apalache, 1763-1769 (Continued), Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

From A Remote Frontier: San Marcos De Apalache, 1763-1769 (Continued), Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters and Reports Passing Between Lieutenant James Pampellonne in Command at Apalache (St. Marks) and General Gage, his Commander-in-Chief, at New York, 1764-1765


Our Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Our Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A Letter From Indian Key, 1840, Charles Howe Mar 2021

A Letter From Indian Key, 1840, Charles Howe

Florida Historical Quarterly

The writer was Charles Howe who was Inspector of the Port and Postmaster at Indian Key and a survivor of the massacre there three months before the date of this letter. He was also one of the two associates of Dr. Henry Perrine in his noteworthy horticultural enterprise. See this Quarterly, v. 38 (July 1926). Grateful acknowledgment is made for a copy of the letter to Dr. H. Bailey Carroll, Professor of History, North Texas Agricultural College.


St. Augustine Under The British Flag, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat Mar 2021

St. Augustine Under The British Flag, 1763-1775, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

The city of St. Augustine, in the serenity which comes from nearly four hundred years of existence, inevitably carries the visitor back to the days of the Spanish Empire. Its narrow streets, its low coquina houses with their balconies overhanging the roadway, its shady square running from the old Governor’s House down to the bay, and above all the massive yet graceful lines of the fort which should be called as of old Castillo de San Marcos, all bring back the spirit of the Old World to blend with that of the New into something of its original charm and …


The Confederate Baggage And Treasure Train Ends Its Flight In Florida: A Diary Of Tench Francis Tilghman Mar 2021

The Confederate Baggage And Treasure Train Ends Its Flight In Florida: A Diary Of Tench Francis Tilghman

Florida Historical Quarterly

Editor’s note : The widespread interest aroused by A. J. Hanna’s latest publication FLIGHT INTO OBLIVION suggests that readers of the QUARTERLY will wish to read the diary of Tench Francis Tilghman on which a chapter of that book is based. In editing the diary Professcr Hanna* has used the mass of materials he assembled through years of research for his book to give us a picture of conditions in Florida in 1865. For this he has a noteworthy heritage, as each branch of his family came to Florida before the War, and two of his great-grandfathers were here before …


Florida’S First Constitution Mar 2021

Florida’S First Constitution

Florida Historical Quarterly

The constitution of 1838-1839, formulated by representative delegates and adopted at the polls, represented the dominant will of the people of the Territory of Florida in emerging from a status of territorial dependence upon the Federal government into that of a sovereign State subject only to the Federal constitution.


March Madness With A Twist, Richard C. Crepeau Mar 2021

March Madness With A Twist, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

After a year with no “March Madness” that turned into one of the maddest years of our lifetime, the calendar has rolled through twelve months and the lure of television money has resurrected “March Madness.” Some things look very familiar.


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


From A Remote Frontier: San Marcos De Apalache 1763-1769 (Continued), Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

From A Remote Frontier: San Marcos De Apalache 1763-1769 (Continued), Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters Passing Between Captain Harries in Command at Apalache (St. Marks) in 1764 and his Commander-in-Chief, General Gage, in New York


From A Remote Frontier, Part I, San Marcos De Apalache, 1763-1769, Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

From A Remote Frontier, Part I, San Marcos De Apalache, 1763-1769, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters Passing Between Captain Harries in Command at Apalache (St. Marks) 1763-1764 and the Commanders-in-Chief, Amherst and Gage


Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida, Promoter Of Cuban Liberty, Ruby Leach Carson Mar 2021

Florida, Promoter Of Cuban Liberty, Ruby Leach Carson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida’s geographical peculiarities have resulted always in giving her a colorful history, and at no time has this been more evident than during the Cuban War of Independence, previous to American intervention. This period, from 1895 to 1898, has provided inspiration for many books and articles about the Cuban Juntas formed in the United States and about their filibustering enterprises. Because Florida’s ragged outline forms an arm which Uncle Sam extends into the affairs of Spanish America, it was inevitable that Cuban insurrectionists should lean heavily upon this arm after they declared their independence from Spain. An effort to assemble …


Hiram F. Hammon, Homesteader Of Palm Beach, Marian R. Trumbull Mar 2021

Hiram F. Hammon, Homesteader Of Palm Beach, Marian R. Trumbull

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the early settlers who helped to transform a stretch of Florida wilderness into a modern city was Hiram F. Hammon, first homesteader of what is now Palm Beach; and this account of him and what he did has been gathered from family recollections, intimate papers of the Hammon and Lanehart families, and several authoritative publications.


The Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1888 In Jacksonville, Margaret C. Fairlie Mar 2021

The Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1888 In Jacksonville, Margaret C. Fairlie

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first of the four thousand six hundred fifty-six cases of yellow fever recorded in Jacksonville in the summer and fall of 1888 was that of R. D. McCormick who had lately come from Tampa and who was reported ill on July 28. Though this caused some alarm, the assurance of the Board of Health that it was a sporadic case seemed to calm all fears.


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society: 1856-1861, 1879, 1902-1940, Watt Marchman Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: 1856-1861, 1879, 1902-1940, Watt Marchman

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A Prelude To The Creek War Of 1813-1814, John Innerarity To James Innerarity, Elizabeth Howard West Mar 2021

A Prelude To The Creek War Of 1813-1814, John Innerarity To James Innerarity, Elizabeth Howard West

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is of unusual historical significance, for it describes the visit of McQueen and his Creeks to Pensacola, which resulted in the attack of the whites on the Indians at Burnt Corn Creek, the first fight of the war. Without this Creek victory as fuel for the war party and aid in bringing the waverers along with them, Big Warrior’s peace party might well have carried the majority with them instead. Innerarity’s letter is important in the light it throws on the relations of Governor Manrique with McQueen, and his furnishing the Indians with a large amount of ammunition- …


A Stowe Memorial, K. W. Hooker Mar 2021

A Stowe Memorial, K. W. Hooker

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the village of Mandarin on the St. Johns is the little “Church of Our Savior” with its memorial window to Calvin E. Stowe and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This fine example of American artisanship in stained glass represents the St. Johns River at sunset, seen through the moss-curtained branches of a big live oak-the “Stowe oak,” at Mandarin.


The Library And The Library Committee, Watt Marchman Mar 2021

The Library And The Library Committee, Watt Marchman

Florida Historical Quarterly

President Hanna has recently announced the appointment of a library committee for the general purpose of assisting the Society’s librarian in “securing and conserving important publications, documents, manuscripts, papers, letters, diaries, and similar material to be housed in the Florida Historical Society library, and . . . to aid in the building of the collections of the Florida Historical Society.”


The East Coast In 1870, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The East Coast In 1870, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the close of the Civil War, there were but two counties on the East Coast south of Cape Canaveral, Brevard and Dade. Dade had been established in 1886, but it was still virtually uninhabited wilderness in 1870, extending from the present southern boundary of St. Lucie County to the keys. The following narrative and statistical extracts are taken from The Florida Gazetteer, compiled and published by J. M. Hawkes, M. D. (New Orleans, 1871, 214 p.) Few copies were printed and the volume has now become rare.


Ralph Waldo Emerson In Florida, Mrs. Henry L. Richmond Mar 2021

Ralph Waldo Emerson In Florida, Mrs. Henry L. Richmond

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the 1820’s Ralph Waldo Emerson was a young Unitarian minister living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As one of six children of a widowed mother in meagre circumstances, his twenty-three years had been a struggle of ambition over privation. His health had never been robust and in the autumn of 1826 he developed a bronchial ailment that demanded a change from the rigors of a New England winter. He was persuaded by family and friends to leave his ministerial duties and, his good uncle Samuel Ripley assisting with travel expenses, on November 25 Emerson sailed in the ship Clematis for Charleston, …


Why Two Connecticut Yankees Went South, Samuel H. Fisher Mar 2021

Why Two Connecticut Yankees Went South, Samuel H. Fisher

Florida Historical Quarterly

General Edmund Kirby Smith was an outstanding figure in the War between the States, particularly in its closing years when he was in command of the Trans-Mississippi Department. He was Florida-born and his native State was proud to place his statue in the Capitol at Washington.


James Alexander Robertson, A. Curtis Wilgus Mar 2021

James Alexander Robertson, A. Curtis Wilgus

Florida Historical Quarterly

Few scholars have had such an extensive general understanding of, or such an intensive interest in certain fields of history as had Dr. Robertson. The Philippines, Latin America, Florida, and Maryland all attracted his earnest, enthusiastic, and scholarly attention; and in each of those fields the results of his labors are outstanding. Though honors came to him from four continents, those who knew him best remember the man before the scholar.


Governor Johnstone In West Florida, C. N. Howard Mar 2021

Governor Johnstone In West Florida, C. N. Howard

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first letters and reports of Major Farmar upon the new province, West Florida, and the conduct of the military administration were received in the early spring by the secretary at war and, in due course, were forwarded to the new governor, George Johnstone, at his London house in Half- Moon street. The papers came from the secretary at war to the office of the secretary of state for the southern department. After inspection, they were returned to the secretary at war.