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Excerpt, Affecting Narrative Of The Captivity And The Sufferings Of Mrs. Mary Smith, Mary Smith, Petronella Van Doorn Dec 1817

Excerpt, Affecting Narrative Of The Captivity And The Sufferings Of Mrs. Mary Smith, Mary Smith, Petronella Van Doorn

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"An Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Mary Smith tells the story of a white settler who, along with her husband and daughters, was forcefully taken from her frontier home by Kickapoo Indians in the vicinity of New Orleans. An unknown 'gentleman' tells the outrageous story filled with extreme violence, including torture, scalping, massacre, sexual submission, white racism, bravery, and chivalry to 'his friend in Rhode Island.' During this sixty day ordeal, Smith witnesses the horrific torture and killing of her husband and her children, marries an older chief, gets recaptured by the Kickapoos, and is …

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Excerpt, Travels Through North And South Carolina, Georgia, East And West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories Of The Muscogulges, Or Creek Confederacy, And The Country Of The Choctaws, William Bartram, Devin Pallone, Heather Wiseman Dec 1790

Excerpt, Travels Through North And South Carolina, Georgia, East And West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories Of The Muscogulges, Or Creek Confederacy, And The Country Of The Choctaws, William Bartram, Devin Pallone, Heather Wiseman

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"Commissioned by the London physician John Fothergill to survey the land and catalog the flora and fauna, Bartram rambled through the southeastern colonies of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama from 1774-1777. He filled the pages of journals with notes about the landscape, encounters with its inhabitants, and his reflections on what moved him most. He sketched quirky birds and sinuous plants. The result of his journals and letters was a book known as Travels, published in 1791, and circulated widely in the US and Europe."

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Introduction: A Translation Of Avertissement In: Tableau Encyclopédique Et Méthodique Des Trois Règnes De La Nature, Jean G. Bruguière, John M. Lawrence Dec 1790

Introduction: A Translation Of Avertissement In: Tableau Encyclopédique Et Méthodique Des Trois Règnes De La Nature, Jean G. Bruguière, John M. Lawrence

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Journal, Diary Of A Journey Through The Carolinas, Georgia And Florida From July 1, 1765, To April 10, 1766, John Bartram, Michael Sadler, Brent Jowers Dec 1764

Journal, Diary Of A Journey Through The Carolinas, Georgia And Florida From July 1, 1765, To April 10, 1766, John Bartram, Michael Sadler, Brent Jowers

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"John Bartram (1699-1777), a Quaker, Pennsylvania farmer, and father of William, trained himself scientifically at a young age. John maintained an extensive correspondence with leading minds of the Enlightenment on both sides of the Atlantic. A life’s work in natural history earned Bartram an annual stipend of fifty pounds by King George III in 1765, and with that income, the elder Bartram and son William explored East Florida’s St. Johns River."

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Excerpt, Autobiography Of Mrs. Elizabeth Pilot (Nee Digby), Born 1742, Died 1826, With A Concluding Memoir By Her Daughter, Elizabeth Digby Pilot, Deborah L. Bauer Dec 1764

Excerpt, Autobiography Of Mrs. Elizabeth Pilot (Nee Digby), Born 1742, Died 1826, With A Concluding Memoir By Her Daughter, Elizabeth Digby Pilot, Deborah L. Bauer

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"Surviving primary source documents that detail life in East and West Florida during the British Period are exceedingly rare. Such journals or diaries written by women are even more scarce. Elizabeth Digby Pilot (1742-1826), wife of a British infantry officer, wrote one of only two known surviving accounts."

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Journal, Relation Or Journal Of A Late Expedition To St. Augustine, Edward Kimber, Krista M. Coker Dec 1743

Journal, Relation Or Journal Of A Late Expedition To St. Augustine, Edward Kimber, Krista M. Coker

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"In A Relation or Journal of a Late Expedition to the Gates of St. Augustine, Edward Kimber relates his experiences as a soldier in James Oglethorpe’s raid on St. Augustine. The author was originally described as “a Gentleman, Volunteer in the said Expedition.” The raid was an attempt to further expand British holdings and take St. Augustine from Spanish control, being part of the long struggle between the two empires

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Excerpt, God's Protecting Providence, Jonathan Dickinson, Mikaela Perron Dec 1698

Excerpt, God's Protecting Providence, Jonathan Dickinson, Mikaela Perron

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"Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal, first printed in 1699 and originally titled God’s Protecting Providence, Man’s Surest Help and Defense, In Times of the Greatest Difficulty, and most Eminent Danger, […] From the cruel Devouring Jaws of the Inhumane Canibals of Florida, is a narrative of shipwreck and captivity. Though originally written as a report to the Spanish governor, the account was published by the members of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, who believed the narrative exemplified God’s guidance, intervention, and deliverance."

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