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Source Materials Of Florida History In The John Carter Brown Library Of Brown University, Lawrence C. Wroth Mar 2021

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. …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 20, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society: The Removal To St. Augustine And The New Library; Directors’ Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: The Removal To St. Augustine And The New Library; Directors’ Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Local Florida Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Local Florida Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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


Book Review: Florida, Land Of Change, By Kathryn T. Abbey, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review: Florida, Land Of Change, By Kathryn T. Abbey, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Florida, Land of Change by Kathryn Trimmer Abbey. (Chapel Hill : the University of North Carolina Press, 1941, XII, 426 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, bibliography and index. $3.50).


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


Colonial Pensacola: The British Period. Part Iii, Clinton N. Howard Mar 2021

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.


The Courts Of Territorial Florida, Charles D. Farris Mar 2021

The Courts Of Territorial Florida, Charles D. Farris

Florida Historical Quarterly

The organic act establishing the Territory of Florida was passed by Congress on March 30, 1822. Another act of Congress admitted Florida into the union of states on March 23, 1845. 2 Provision was made for either the appointment or the election, by October 1845, of all officers under the state government who succeeded to functions of officers under the territorial government. 3 The territorial period, therefore, may be said to have ended with the elections in October 1845.


Moses Elias Levy, An Early Florida Pioneer And The Father Of Florida’S First Senator, Leon Hunter Mar 2021

Moses Elias Levy, An Early Florida Pioneer And The Father Of Florida’S First Senator, Leon Hunter

Florida Historical Quarterly

Never before has there been an instance of the formation of a great nation like our own, in which so many different races and nationalities have taken part. The sturdy English, the thrifty Scotch, the buoyant Irish, the Spaniards, Germans, French, Italians, Dutch, Scandinavians and others are all represented in our country’s fabric, irrespective of their religious tenets or affiliations. And so it is not surprising to find that Jews were also among these pioneers. Though but few in number, they appear in every one of the original thirteen colonies throughout the colonial and revolutionary periods, and also later on …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 19, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society: The Removal To St. Augustine And The New Library; Directors’ Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: The Removal To St. Augustine And The New Library; Directors’ Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Diplomacy and the Borderlands: The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. By Philip Coolidge Brooks. University of California Publications in History, Volume 24. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1939. x, 251 pp. Illustrations, appendices and bibliography. Cloth, $2.50 ; paper $2.00) and Guide to the Material in The National Archives. (Washington : U. S. Government Printing Office, 1940. Pp. xviii, 303.)


Some Notes On An Archeological Survey For Florida, H. Dunscombe Colt Mar 2021

Some Notes On An Archeological Survey For Florida, H. Dunscombe Colt

Florida Historical Quarterly

In these days of increasing population and expanding communities, it is inevitable that many of the historical antiquities should disappear. The Indian mounds are not alone in this respect, for the remains of the early colonial periods are also succumbing to modern demands. In order therefore to preserve, in record at least, as much as possible for the future, a register of all existing antiquities should be compiled before it is too late.


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 …


Colonial Pensacola: The British Period, Part Ii, Clinton N. Howard Mar 2021

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

Florida Historical Quarterly

After the initial difficulties which accompany any new settlement were over, Pensacola developed during the late 1760’s and early 1770’s much as did the other eighteenth century English colonial capitals in North America.


Spanish Contributions In Florida To American Culture, Verne E. Chatelain Mar 2021

Spanish Contributions In Florida To American Culture, Verne E. Chatelain

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the numerous steps taken by Spain during the sixteenth century in its efforts to establish dominion over the New World, none are deserving of greater attention from the standpoint of our own national history than the founding of St. Augustine in the year 1565. The fact that this little settlement which was only one of approximately 200 Spanish towns and cities then existing in the Indies, remained a Spanish colony for nearly two centuries and was always an indispensable factor in the defensive strategy employed by Spain for safe-guarding its commerce as well as in perpetuating its control over …


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 and Documents Pertaining to San Marcos de Apalache, 1763-1769, During the British Occupation of Florida


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 19, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Mexican Resemblances In The Southeastern Area Of The United States, Doris Stone Mar 2021

Mexican Resemblances In The Southeastern Area Of The United States, Doris Stone

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Indians who have inhabited this region belong to various groups, some of which have migrated hither in historical times (as the Shawnee). The most important are the Muskogian tribes, of which the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Natchez are members. However, we find isolated tribes belonging to the large northern and eastern groups of Iroquois and Algonquin Indians, as well as Siouan from the Great Plains, and several less important peoples who came into this area from the Ohio valley.


Report Of The Committee On Archeology, W. J. Winter Mar 2021

Report Of The Committee On Archeology, W. J. Winter

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Board of Directors last year authorized President Hanna to organize a committee on archeology, and Dr. Winter, an experienced archeologist, was appointed chairman. His graduate work was done at the University of Chicago, and during the past three years, as Archeologist and Assistant Director of Research for the St. Augustine Historical Program of Carnegie Institution of Washington, he has surveyed in a general way the archeological research possibilities of Florida. The other members of the committee are: D. Graham Copeland, Francis B. Crowninshield, Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, W. B. Goodwin, R. R. Otis, Mrs. Doris Stone, and Mrs. …


The Florida Historical Society: The Move To St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society: The Move To St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Our good fortune in going “home” to St. Augustine, with the offer of a long-time home there in the Alcazar hotel building, was told of in the last issue of the Quarterly.


Florida Historical Material In Niles’ Register, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Florida Historical Material In Niles’ Register, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any descriptive writing of general character by an intelligent observer a century or more ago is almost certain to contain valuable information for the historian; and this is especially true for Florida. The following account presents a view of East Florida in 1817, four years before the United States officially occupied it through cession by Spain.


The Departure Of The Spaniards And Other Groups From East Florida, 1763, Wilbur H. Siebert Mar 2021

The Departure Of The Spaniards And Other Groups From East Florida, 1763, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

The departure of the Spaniards, their dependents, and other inhabitants from East Florida when the British took over the two Floridas in 1763 began on April 12 when three schooners sailed from St. Augustine for Havana. Sixteen vessels left in August, two or more of them for Apalachee, including an English packet boat and the English sloop Hawk, one sloop left in September, a French sloop and six other vessels in October, two in November, including a French sloop, an English brigantine, an English sloop, and four other vessels in December. With one sloop on January 8, 1764 and eight …


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 Florida Militia And The Affair At Withlacoochee, Samuel E. Cobb Mar 2021

The Florida Militia And The Affair At Withlacoochee, Samuel E. Cobb

Florida Historical Quarterly

Many varied types of organizations, generally spoken of as the militia, came into existence during the Seminole wars in Florida. They ranged from ephemeral units, organized for a particular purpose and at a particular time which were disbanded after a retaliatory attack had been made on the Indians, or the raiding Indians had been dispersed to the fairly well organized military unit, mobilized under the authority of the territorial and national governments and attached to the Federal army.


Colonial Pensacola: The British Period. Part I, Clinton N. Howard Mar 2021

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

Florida Historical Quarterly

Pensacola came to Great Britain as a part of the cessions of Spain at the close of the Seven Years war. The treaty of Paris which closed that war and incorporated the cession of Pensacola and all of Florida in its provisions was a turning point in the history of the British empire and of North America. The counterpart of the cession of Florida to Britain and the return of Havana to Spain was the cession of eastern Louisiana by France to Britain; and the relative value of the interior of the North American continent as compared with the Caribbean, …


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.