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The Founder Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter Mar 2021

The Founder Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

For nearly a century the generally accepted account of the origin of the Seminole has been “that the first group of Seminoles came into Florida in 1750, under a chief named Secoffee,” to quote Dr. John R. Swanton, chief contemporary authority on their origins and early history, whose source is the anthropologist Daniel G. Brinton, although Dr. Swanton states that he does not know Brinton’s authority.


Nocoroco, A Timucua Village Of 1605, John W. Griffin Mar 2021

Nocoroco, A Timucua Village Of 1605, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1605 Alvaro Mexia was sent on an expedition down the east coast of Florida by Governor Don Pedro de Ybarra of Spanish East Florida. Mexia followed the inland waters as far south as St. Lucie Inlet, and upon his return to St. Augustine compiled a map and itinerary which are invaluable in the study of the archaeology of the early historic period in the area.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 27, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Major-General John Campbell In British West Florida, George C. Osborn Mar 2021

Major-General John Campbell In British West Florida, George C. Osborn

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in the autumn of 1778 Brigadier-General John Campbell received a communication from Lord George Germain to proceed from the colony of New York to Pensacola, Province of West Florida. In this imperial province, which was bounded on the west by the Mississippi river, Lake Ponchartrain and the Iberville river, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Apalachicola river and on the north by the thirty-first parallel but later by a line drawn eastward from the mouth of the Yazoo river, General Campbell was to take command of His Majesty’s troops. That the newly …


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes information on the annual meeting, a membership drive, members, and accessions to the library


Florida Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Florida Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Historical Association of Southern Florida, Jacksonville Historical Society, The St. Augustine Historical Society


Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida, 1862-1868 Part Ii, George Winston Smith Mar 2021

Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida, 1862-1868 Part Ii, George Winston Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before the Florida Direct Tax Commissioners couId hope to make extensive tax assessments and sales of “rebel”property in Florida, further military operations were essential in the Jacksonville area. Nevertheless, Fernandina and St. Augustine already were in possession of the Union forces, and Stickney could see before him a limited entree to southern wealth. Before he made a leisurely journey southward at the end of 1862, he quietly began to make preparations.


John Westcott’S Plan For Public Education In Florida, 1844, Nita Katharine Pyburn Mar 2021

John Westcott’S Plan For Public Education In Florida, 1844, Nita Katharine Pyburn

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1843 the Legislative Council of Florida passed two acts pertaining to education ; one providing that “the sheriff of the several counties . . . be Commissioners of school’lands in their respective counties.” Each was to rent or lease the land and retain ten percent as commission. The remainder of the proceeds was to be paid to the county treasurer at the beginning of the year. The county court was to appropriate the fun.ds thus accruing “to the education of the poor children of the County in which such land was situated.“l In 1844 another act was passed which …


A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet Mar 2021

A Connecticut Yankee Fights At Olustee: Letters From The Front, Vaughn D. Bornet

Florida Historical Quarterly

Olustee was the most important battle of the War for Southern Independence in Florida. While the Union army under Brigadier General Truman Seymour was not “completely defeated, with . . . utter rout," it was a severe setback in the plan of the administration for separating Florida from the Confederacy. If the effort had been successful, the political and economic results would have been serious for the South.


William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson Mar 2021

William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years To The Governorship, Ruby Leach Carson

Florida Historical Quarterly

If any contemporaries of William D. Bloxham (1835-1911) made any inquiries concerning the family background of Florida’s two-term governor, they left no record of his ancestry. As the son of a Leon county planter, born and reared in the heart of the political scene in Florida, his presence required no explanation. The War for Southern Independence, and then Reconstruction, of epic importance, engrossed men’s thoughts. Even Bloxham’s activity in statecraft was sufficiently important and picturesque to focus journalistic attention upon the man’s achievements almost to the exclusion of his earlier background.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 27, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 27, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes information on the directors' meeting and accessions to the library


Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith Mar 2021

Carpetbag Imperialism In Florida 1862-1868, George Winston Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

The great Civil War battlefields were far from Florida. Compared with the Wilderness campaign, the bloody slaughter of Pittsburg Landing or other major conflicts, even Olustee was a minor battle on the margin of the war. Yet in addition to keeping Florida in the Confederacy, it and other lesser encounters revealed social forces which were destined to alter the fabric of Florida’s society, and radically influence the future, of all the South. For with the occupying forces of the Union army came political and economic adventurers, the successors of a few earlier Yankee pioneers in Florida, and the predecessors of …


Independentism: A Challenge To The Florida Democracy Of 1884, Edward C. Williamson Mar 2021

Independentism: A Challenge To The Florida Democracy Of 1884, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

After 1876 the Florida Republican party slowly dwindled away, for awhile holding its own in the coastal cities and a few counties of the so called “Black Belt." The Bourbon Democrats were in the saddle, pulling the wires and plucking what political plums there were. Confederate war veterans dominated the scene, causing frustration to many a younger Democratic politician. Therefore, it was not surprising that the election of 1884 saw a new party in the selection of candidates for state offices.


Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd Mar 2021

Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part Ii, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the year 1850, Tallahassee, through its city government, took the first faltering steps which led later in the decade to the organization of a stable school system. Before that year, as was told in Part I of this article, parents had depended for the education of their children on private schools and on two corporate institutions, Leon Academy and Leon Female Academy. The former, constantly in financial straits, was barely kept alive through the years from 1827 to 1840. The Female Academy, begun in 1844, continued as an independent school until 1858. Thus the story of boys’ education before …


Enumeration Of The Florida Spanish Missions In 1675, Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

Enumeration Of The Florida Spanish Missions In 1675, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The instances when either the Spanish civil or ecclesiastical colonial authorities submitted enumerations of the mission establishments in Florida appear to have been infrequent and irregular. It is consequently somewhat surprising that two lists are available for the year 1675. The first of these to attract attention was the list incorporated in an undated letter written to the Queen of Spain by Bishop Gabriel Diaz Vara Calderon of Cuba, which was presented in translation by Lucy L. Wenhold (1936). The bishop paid an extensive pastoral visit to Florida in 1674-75, remaining for eight months, during which he appears to have …


Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose Mar 2021

Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, Nelson Klose

Florida Historical Quarterly

After much research on the subject, this writer believes that no person worked with more devotion and energy for the introduction of tropical agricultural plants into the United States in the second quarter of the nineteenth century than did Dr. Henry Perrine. His was the foremost pioneering in agriculture for the development of the newly-acquired Territory of Florida. Perrine’s work came when a need was felt for new crops to diversify and bolster the agriculture of the South before effective assistance was given the states and before the Federal Congress had bureaucratized this work in 1839 with its first appropriation …


Local History, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Local History, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes information on the drive for new members and accessions to the library


Local Historical Societies Of Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Local Historical Societies Of Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jacksonville Historical Society, The Historical Association of Southern Florida, St. Augustine Historical Society, Tallahassee Historical Society


Archaeology In Florida: A Report On The Goodnow Mound, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Archaeology In Florida: A Report On The Goodnow Mound, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Though we call archaeology “pre-history,” so much has been learned about the former inhabitants of the land we might almost omit the prefix. This is not nearly so true of Florida aborigines as it is of many other parts of the country; and what has been accomplished here has been done by scientists from outside the State: Moore, Wyman, Stirling, Hrdlicka, Fewkes, Willey and others. Recently two of our own young men have been avidly following an urge which must have been congenital by digging into the history before history of the peninsula. These are John W. Griffin of Daytona …


Book Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades, by Alfred Jackson Hanna and Kathryn Abbey Hanna. (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. 379 pp. $4.00), and Lakanal, the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal, by John Charles Dawson. University of Alabama Press, 1948. (215 p. $5.00)


Spanish Relief Policy And The East Florida Refugees Of 1763, Duvon C. Corbitt Mar 2021

Spanish Relief Policy And The East Florida Refugees Of 1763, Duvon C. Corbitt

Florida Historical Quarterly

So runs the pious ejeculation scrawled across the front page of the bundle of documents in the Archivo Nacional de Cuba concerned with pensions to wives, widows and daughters of the Floridians who chose to follow the retreating Spanish flag in 1763 and 1764. 1 It is not surprising that the Havanese officials called for help from on high when they found themselves confronted with the feeding and housing of the whole population of East Florida after the cession of that province to Great Britain by the Peace of Paris. Fortunately the total of that population scarcely exceeded three thousand …


Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash Mar 2021

Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida seceded from the Union, Taylor county was four years old, it having been created from Madison county on December 23, 1856. As a functioning political unit its age was at least six months less, for the members of its first board of county commissioners were not qualified until March 27, 1857, and its first judge of probate, one of whose duties was to preside at board meetings, was not commissioned until July 4, following.


Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel Mar 2021

Robert E. Lee In Florida, Karl A. Bickel

Florida Historical Quarterly

The career of General Robert E. Lee is so overwhelmingly associated with the valleys of Virginia and the great and decisive battles of the Civil War that his very real personal interest in Florida and the fact that as one of the commission of United States Army officers in 1849 he made a detailed and personal examination of the entire coast line of Florida from Pensacola to Jacksonville and Fernandina, has been largely obscured. During this tour of inspection as secretary of the commission, he recorded the results of the examination of every bay, river mouth of any importance, or …


Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd Mar 2021

Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The school problems of early Tallahassee, after a long process of trial and error, were finally solved by the establishment, on January 1, 1857, of the West Florida Seminary. Though the Seminary was nominally a State institution, actually for many years nearly all of its students were from Tallahassee and vicinity, and it was to all intents and purposes a Tallahassee school. With its location in the town, citizens were at last assured of a permanent means of educating their sons, and a little later, their daughters also. Until this fortunate event, Tallahassee, like the other towns of the Territory …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 27, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 27


The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes minutes, report of the treasurer, membership report, and accessions to the library