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Botanical Explorers Of The Southeastern United States, H. Harold Hume Mar 2021

Botanical Explorers Of The Southeastern United States, H. Harold Hume

Florida Historical Quarterly

The southeastern United States, and in particular the part now embraced within the state of Florida, is an unusual area from the standpoint of its plant life. Here nature with a lavish hand scattered far and wide an unrivaled flora. It has no counterpart either in the United States or in the whole world. The number of species is great and individual specimens of the higher plants so numerous that in the pristine condition they completely covered the surface of the soil on all but the poorest lands. In support of this statement it may be added that there are …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 21, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Triangular Contest For Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Triangular Contest For Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida’s colonial history is mainly that of an intermittent struggle for possession by the three great European nations-Spain, France, and Great Britain. Though efforts were made at colonization, none were really successful except the fair beginning of the English in East Florida; the beginning in the West was in those parts only nominally and temporarily Florida. The purpose of Spain’s two hundred years of sovereignty was to keep the others out, and that was the reason for St. Augustine and Pensacola-two oases in a wilderness.


St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, Charles L. Mowat Mar 2021

St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

Several years ago, in an article in the Quarterly, Abbot Charles H. Mohr, O. S. B., gave an interesting account of the work of the Franciscans in Florida during the first Spanish regime and described the strange history of their monastic buildings, which were converted into barracks during the British period and still give the name, and probably considerably more than the name, to the present day St. Francis Barracks on Marine street in St. Augustine. These barracks thus furnish a link of unusual interest between the present day and both the transitory regime of the British in East Florida …


Milly Francis And Duncan Mckrimmon, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Milly Francis And Duncan Mckrimmon, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hillis Hadjo, known in English as Francis the Prophet, was a Creek chief of considerable prominence. When the famous Indian Tecumseh visited the Creek Indians during the opening phase of the War of 1812 to enlist them in the cause of the British, Francis became his convert. He was then living near the Chattahoochee river in the present state of Alabama. In the campaign of General Andrew Jackson in 1813-14 against the Creeks, Francis was driven into Spanish Florida and finally took up his abode near the Spanish Fort St. Marks.


George J. F. Clarke, 1774-1836, Louise Biles Hill Mar 2021

George J. F. Clarke, 1774-1836, Louise Biles Hill

Florida Historical Quarterly

Here is a man who was an English colonial by birth, a Spanish citizen by naturalization, and died an American citizen by virtue of the treaty through which the United States acquired the Floridas. All occurred in St. Augustine!-though some of his mature years were spent in Fernandina and in St. Marys, Georgia.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 21, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Members Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida Historical Society: The Library, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Florida Historical Society: The Library, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A Memorial To James Alexander Robertson, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

A Memorial To James Alexander Robertson, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

James Alexander Robertson published little Florida history; but a large part of what has been published during the past quarter-century, and much that is still to be published and still to be written, is and will be the better because of his years of work with and for the writers. And some of that history would not have been written except for him.


New Books, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Books, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of: Curley : Church and State in the Spanish Floridas; Haggard: Handbook for Translators of Spanish Historical Documents; Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the North Carolina Historical Commission; Venable : William Adam Hocker (1844-1918) Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida


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


Names Of The St. Johns River, Herbert M. Corse Mar 2021

Names Of The St. Johns River, Herbert M. Corse

Florida Historical Quarterly

Four centuries of history are reflected in the changing names of the St. Johns river. From earliest times the leaping surf on the bar which marked the entrance was noticed by coastal explorers. The great volume of water coming from the river was obstructed by a shallow bar which caused a turbulent appearance and earned the river its first name, Rio de Corrientes (River of Currents). This name appears on the earliest known map of the De Soto expedition. Here the southern region and its coast from Cape Hatteras around Florida and beyond the Rio Grande is remarkably accurate in …


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 …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 20, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Historical Quarterly Index, Volumes Xv-Xx, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Florida Historical Quarterly Index, Volumes Xv-Xx, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Library Accessions, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Library Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Minutes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Minutes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, 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 Haldiman at Pensacola, and General Gage, Commander-in-Chief at New York, 1767-1769


Philip Freneau On The Cession Of Florida, Lewis Leary Mar 2021

Philip Freneau On The Cession Of Florida, Lewis Leary

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among American men of letters who have paid tribute to Florida-and perhaps, with the exception of William Bartram, the earliest of them-we may now number Philip Freneau, the “Poet of the American Revolution”. Unlike many others, Freneau apparently never saw Florida, though for a period of years between 1785 and 1790 he was master of a coastal vessel which occasionally called as far south as Savannah. His poem on Florida was written when he was an old man, almost seventy. Living in retirement on his farm in New Jersey, he nevertheless still watched with interest the development and expansion of …


Spanish Colonial Contacts With The Ais (Indian River) Country, Charles D. Higgs Mar 2021

Spanish Colonial Contacts With The Ais (Indian River) Country, Charles D. Higgs

Florida Historical Quarterly

The narratives of the early explorers and the Spanish archives of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are replete with references concerning shipwrecks in the Bahama channel. This passage which gave to Florida its strategic importance, offered a course with more favoring winds and a safer route for the homeward-bound treasure fleets from Mexico, but was in itself distinctly hazardous. Ships and even whole fleets were too often wrecked all along the “Banda del Sur”, or South Coast, from St. Augustine to the lower keys. The majority of these disasters occurred along that bight of the shore, south of Cape Canaveral, …


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 …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 20, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents