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Journal Of John Lee Williams, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Journal of a voyage from Pensacola to St. Marks and the district of country included between the rivers Ocholockney and Suwannee, in West Florida, during the months of October and November, 1823.

Journal Of Dr. W. H. Simmons, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Left St. Augustine and reached Buonavista, late at night, the road being impeded with water nearly the whole way. The flats being on the other side, there was no possibility of getting my horses over before the morning. I however passed over myself in a canoe and slept at Vibrillia.

The Selection Of Tallahassee As The Capital, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Mr. Wall, Chairman of a Special Committee on Examination of a Site for a Governor's Mansion, submitted the, following report: Sir— On the 15th of this month there was presented and read to this body a communication from the Council of the city of Tallahassee, in which they agree to give a "Fee Simple Title" to six town lots of land within the city for a Governor's Mansion, provided the Legislature will grant $20,000 to build the same. Therefore, I ask permission that the following history relative to these lands be presented in the Journal."

Indian Massacre In Gadsen County, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sixteen miles southwest of Quincy, the county seat of the grand old county of Gadsden, and about a mile from the banks of the Tallogee creek, spelled on the maps Taliga, lives John K. McLane, now in his eighty-third, year, and a descendant of those, sturdy old Scotch colonists who have contributed so much to the history of this republic.

Origin Of The Shell Mounds, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Modern methods of traveling and the corresponding number of travelers, permitting easy access to all parts of the civilized world; and especially throughout the United States, cause many persons to spend their winters in a semi-tropical climate, thereby combining the opportunity to escape the rigor of winter and secure that change of climate condusive to health and happiness. To entertain this vast concourse of people, whose dispositions and tastes vary almost as much as their personal appearance, is no small matter. For the success of each city or locality, in obtaining its proportion of tourists is in proportion to their …

Catalogue Of Collections, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This is a list of books, pamphlets, maps, relics, and photographs.

Report Of President F. P. Fleming To The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Held November 19th, 1907, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gentlemen of the Florida Historical Society— It gives me pleasure to again greet you on this occasion of the annual meeting of the society.

Major George Rainsford Fairbanks, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Major George Rainsford Fairbanks, the first president of the Florida Historical Society, whose likeness appears in this number, died at his summer home in Sewanee, Tennessee, on the third day of August, 1906, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He was born in Watertown, New York, on July 5, 1820. At the age of nineteen, he graduated from the Union College, Schenectady, with the degree of B. A. Later he received the degree of M. A. from his alma mater, and the same degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. At the age of twenty-two he was admitted to the …

Prospectus, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society was organized November 26, 1902. It was chartered as a corporation May 15, 1905. The objects of the Society, as set forth in its charter, are as follows.

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHQ Officers and Board of Directors

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Contents of issue

Major George Rainsford Fairbanks Photo, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Photograph of Major George Rainsford Fairbanks

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Extent and Importance of Federal Naval Raids on Salt-Making in Florida, 1862-1865 Ella Lonn
A Letter of James Innerarity on William Panton’s Estate
New Books
The Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society.

• Minutes
• Report of the president
• Report of the treasurer
• Membership roll of the Society

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Story of the LaFayette Lands in Florida Kathryn T. Abbey
Letters of James Innerarity The War of 1812
Slavery in East Florida, 1776-1785 Wilbur H. Siebert
An Early Nineteenth Century Traveler in Pensacola
To the Members

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

International Rivalry in the Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency of Alexander McGillivray 1783-1789 Lawrence Kinnaird
Sir John Hawkins in Florida Edgar Legare Pennington
The Forbes Purchase A letter from James Innerarity to William Simpson, 1804
A Historical Sketch of My Home Town, Dania Lilliam Jordan

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726- 1776 Wilbur H. Siebert
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part V. T. Frederick Davis
The Archival Distribution of Florida Manuscripts James Alexander Robertson
Documents Relating to Colonel Edward Nicholls and Captain George Woodbine in Pensacola, 1814

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Battle of Olustee Col.. George F. Baltzell, U.S.A.
The New City of Pensacola, 1835-1837 Dorothy Dodd
Soldiers Connected With Florida History Since 1812 Gen. Charles P. Summerall
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part IV. T. Frederick Davis
A Journal of John Forbes, May, 1803 The Seizure of William Augustus Bowles
Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

• Minutes
• Annual Report of the President
• Annual Report of the Treasurer
• In Memoriam

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters of John Innerarity The Seizure of Pensacola by Andrew Jackson, November 7, 1814
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part III T. Frederick Davis
The Significance of William Augustus Bowles’s Seizure of Panton’s Apalachee Store in 1792 Lawrence Kinnaird
New Members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Creek Nation, Debtor to John Forbes & Co., Successors to Panton, Leslie & Co. A Journal of John Innerarity
List of Debts Due by the Traders and Factors
Obligation of the Chiefs and Head-Men of the Upper Creek Towns to John Forbes & Co.
John Innerarity, 1783-1854 Marie Taylor Greenslade
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part II T. Frederick Davis
Some Church History of St. Augustine During the Spanish Regime Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812- 1813 T. Frederick Davis
East Florida in the American Revolution, 1775-1778 Edgar Legare Pennington
Bernard Romans’s Map of Florida Engraved by Paul Revere, and Other Early Maps in the Library of The Florida Historical Society A. F. Harley
Book Review : Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785, By Wilbur H. Siebert Kathryn T. Abbey
New Members
Donations.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Original Narratives of Indian Attacks in Florida On the Home of Willoughby Tillis James Dallas Tillis
Attacks Near New Smyrna, 1835-1856 Jane Murray Sheldon
An Alarm at Tallahassee, 1836 A letter of Captain William Chandler, U.S.N.
Indian Murders Florida Herald, May 29, 1840
Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

• Minutes
• Annual Report of the President
• Annual Report of the Treasurer
• In Memoriam

Florida's Mysterious Personality Alfred J. Hanna
List of members
New members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

John Forbes & Co. vs. the Chickasaw Nation A Journal of an Indian Talk, 1805
Elotchaway, East Florida, 1814 T. Frederick Davis
Thomas Campbell to Lord Deane Gordon An Account of the Creek Indian Nation, 1764
Reverend John Forbes (d. 1783) Edgar Legare Pennington
Address of the “Principal Inhabitants of East Florida” to Governor Tonyn, June 6, 1783
Notes and Comment
Silver Spring

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I Kathryn A. Abbey
St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine; The Franciscans. in Florida Abbot Charles H. Mohr, O.S.B.
Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910, Part II Sanuel Pasco
Notes and Comment
New Members
Donations
Index to Volumes I-VI

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1874. Part IV Kathryn T. Abbey
Notes on the Life of James Grant Prior and Subsequent to His Governorship of East Florida Philip C. Tucker
Letter of Marcus C. Stephens (Quincy, Florida, 1835)
Notes and Comment
New Members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part III Kathryn T. Abbey
Key West and Salvage in 1850
Cooperation of State Governments with Historical Societies Harold Colee
France versus Spain in Florida, 1562-1564 (Prize essay) Donald Jaeger
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 7, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part II Kathryn T. Abbey
The Seminole Council, October 23-25, 1834 T. Frederick Davis
Letter of Colonel James Gadsden on the Seminole Council
The Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society Minutes

• Address and Annual Report of the President
• Annual Report of the Treasurer

New Members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Denys Rolle. and Rollestown, A Pioneer for Utopia Carita Doggett Corse
Letters from the Public Record Office, London
Samuel Pasco (1834-1917)
Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910. Part I Samuel Pasco
Music of the Seminole Indians
Jean Ribaut, His Personality and Achievements (Prize Essay) Kenneth Gunny
The Tallahassee Fire of 1843
Notes and Comment
New Members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

General Gregor MacGregor (frontispiece)
MacGregor’s Invasion of Florida T. Frederick Davis
An Early Poem on Florida Edgar Legare Pennington, Clark Sutherland Northup
The Seminole Indians of Florida Minnie Moore-Willson
Letters of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U. S. Army, 1837- 1838. Part III
Book Review The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1785 By Arthur Preston Whitaker Kathryn T. Abbey
New Members
Donations

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 6, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin FRANK DREW
Letters of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U. S. Army, 1837- 1838. Part II
Fort George (St. Michael), Pensacola FREDERICK CUBBERLY
Letter of James Monroe, Secretary of State, to George Matthews, April 4, 1812
The Annual Meeting of the Society

• Minutes
• Report of the president
• Report of the treasurer

In Memoriam
Membership Roll of the Society

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U. S. Army, 1837- 1838. Part I
History of the Introduction and Culture of Cuba Tobacco in Florida Chief-Justice C. H. DuPont
Contemporaneous Pen-pictures of Richard Keith Call and Thomas Brown (1841)
The Legal Status of the Negro in Florida Thelma Bates
Jesuit Martyrs in Florida Samuel H. Ray, S. J.
Book Review Florida Plantation Records, By Ulrich B. Phillips James Owen Knauss
Notes and Comment

• The Anglican Church in Florida
• Milly Francis