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Pioneer Florida: The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: The First Session Of The Legislative Council Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Conformably to the law, the first Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida was to meet at Pensacola on Monday, June 10, 1822. On that day several members met, but owing to lack of a quorum occasioned by the non-arrival of the East Florida members they adjourned until the 17th. On the 17th, the East Florida members had not arrived and there was another adjournment. It was not until July 22 that the Council organized with a quorum attained through the arrival of some of the members from East Florida. These bare facts are all that official records show; for …
The Seminole Negroes Of Andros Island, Bahamas, John M. Goggin
The Seminole Negroes Of Andros Island, Bahamas, John M. Goggin
Florida Historical Quarterly
In a recent article in this journal, Kenneth W. Porter has raised the question of the identity of the Indian negroes of Andros Island in the Bahamas. As the result of investigations on Andros Island in the summer of 1937, it is possible to clarify the problem, and positively to identify the legendary Indians of Andros Island as Seminole Negroes. A more detailed historical investigation of the problem had been contemplated, but present conditions make it impossible to complete the research as originally outlined.
Governor Salazar’S Wheat Farm Project, 1645-1657, Katherine S. Lawson
Governor Salazar’S Wheat Farm Project, 1645-1657, Katherine S. Lawson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The governors of Florida from the founding of St. Augustine in 1565 to the evacuation in 1763 were continually faced with food shortage, even with starvation; for St. Augustine knew hunger pangs many times, when ships bringing supplies to the Presidio were wrecked, were captured by pirates, or in some years failed to be sent from Mexico with the flour ordered furnished to Florida by the king’s command. So of much interest are the records of a project, covering the years 1645 to 1657, for a wheat farm (trigo hacienda) the result of the determination of Governor Salazar (who may …
The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722, Part I, Stanley Faye
The Contest For Pensacola Bay And Other Gulf Ports, 1698-1722, Part I, Stanley Faye
Florida Historical Quarterly
John Law’s Mississippi Bubble of speculation began to inflate itself on September 26, 1717, when Law’s Company of the West made ready to colonize Louisiana. Yet Law in Paris already knew that a sandbar had blocked up the one seaport of Louisiana that he thought suitable for receiving his transatlantic vessels. Five years later the bubble persisted only in memory, the bubble-maker lingered in exile and necessity persuaded light-draft French shipping to enter the Mississippi river. In the course of those five years the Company of the West had searched unavailingly for another deep, suitable and almost necessary port, and …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 24, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society
Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
A Timely Florida Bibliography, Florida Historical Society
A Timely Florida Bibliography, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Since the last issue of the Quarterly there has been published “Recommended Readings for the Florida Centennial, by A. J. Hanna. A standard guide to the best books on Florida with helpful explanations and critical evaluations. [Imprint:] Union Catalog of Floridiana, Winter Park, Florida.”
A Diary Of Joshua Nichols Glenn, St. Augustine In 1823, Joshua Nichols Glenn
A Diary Of Joshua Nichols Glenn, St. Augustine In 1823, Joshua Nichols Glenn
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Florida became a part of the United States, Methodists in nearby Georgia and South Carolina looked upon East Florida as their missionary field, and at the annual session of the South Carolina Conference of 1823 which met at Savannah, Joshua Nichols Glenn was chosen and sent to establish a mission at St. Augustine.
Pioneer Florida: An Interpretation Of Spanish Laws And Land Titles, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: An Interpretation Of Spanish Laws And Land Titles, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Florida was acquired by the United States from Spain through the treaty of cession concluded and signed in 1819 and ratified in 1821, one of the foremost questions arising was that of the confirmation of land titles. For a decade there was a strange uncertainty with regard to property, titles and judicial decrees, which, according to a contemporary writer in the Florida Herald, were “scattered about as floating objects in the wide ocean of Law.” He goes on to say, “This confusion cannot be supposed to arise from any intention or design in the high contracting parties [the governments …
Tallahassee And St. Marks In 1841, A Letter Of John S. Tappan, John S. Tappan
Tallahassee And St. Marks In 1841, A Letter Of John S. Tappan, John S. Tappan
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Florida Banditti, 1783, Joseph B. Lockey
The Florida Banditti, 1783, Joseph B. Lockey
Florida Historical Quarterly
East Florida was ill at ease on receiving, in the spring of 1783, news of the retrocession of the province to Spain. The necessity of abandoning homes in a land to which government and people alike were attached, together with the uncertainties, vexations, and difficulties of finding new homes elsewhere presented to all a dark picture of the future. In the midst of these apprehensions some of the settlers at least were troubled by the depredations of a group of lawless men whom Governor Patrick Tonyn described as banditti.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 24, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Quarterly, Florida Historical Society
The Quarterly, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
As you have doubtless noticed, our Quarterly is growing again. Since the beginning of the war we have averaged only about two-thirds of our former number of pages. We hope the size can be increased steadily. The saving under our budget has resulted in a good balance, so we expect to begin publishing documents again, and there will be a few in each future number-for the right kind of documents hold a large and important part in the writing of history.
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of Florida During the Territorial Days, by Sidney Walter Martin. Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 1944 (308 p. $3.00).
The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
As was to be expected there has been less activity among the local historical societies of the State during the war. But interest is being revived, though it likely will not equal that of prewar years until the war is ended.
Notes On Seminole Negroes In The Bahamas, Kenneth W. Porter
Notes On Seminole Negroes In The Bahamas, Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
On telling Alan Lomax, folksong collector, of my interest in and research on Seminole Negroes he exclaimed “Do you know there are some in the Bahamas today?”
Early Settlers In British West Florida, Clinton N. Howard
Early Settlers In British West Florida, Clinton N. Howard
Florida Historical Quarterly
The land grant records of the British colony of West Florida comprise a fairly complete census of the population of the colony in the early years.
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’S Premature Proclamation, 1821, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’S Premature Proclamation, 1821, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
The treaty of “Amity, Settlement and Limits” by which Spain ceded the Floridas (East and West) to the United States, was concluded and signed on February 22, 1819, but ratifications were not exchanged until February 22, 1821 - both transactions coincidentally being on the anniversary of George Washington’s birth. On March 10, 1821, General Andrew Jackson was appointed to take over the Floridas from Spain, and assume their government pending their formal creation as a territory of the Union. The commission bestowed upon him the title: Governor of the Floridas, exercising all the powers and authorities heretofore exercised by the …
Florida's Population In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida's Population In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first census of the State of Florida was taken in the summer of 1845. The census takers were slow in making their returns, and data for only 17 of the 26 counties were submitted to the adjourned session of the General Assembly, which met in November. The census was actually taken, however, in every county except St. Lucia and Dade, a total of 66,381 inhabitants being reported.
The Last Spanish Census Of Pensacola, Duvon C. Corbitt
The Last Spanish Census Of Pensacola, Duvon C. Corbitt
Florida Historical Quarterly
Prior to 1812 the Spanish monarch did not see fit to grant Pensacola the right to organize as a municipality; consequently, the West Florida capital was governed up to that year by military commandants whose authority was untrammeled by elective officers. With the inauguration of the Constitution of 1812, however, it became necessary to allow the organization of municipal government there, since the charter in question provided such government for all towns and communities having one thousand or more free inhabitants, or whose special conditions necessitated local government. Therefore, Pensacola’s municipal government, consisting of an alcalde, or mayor, and a …
Florida In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the government of the State of Florida was organized in June 1845, the state contained a population of some 66,500. Although Florida has a total area of 58,560 square miles, 2 47 percent of the population was concentrated in the 7,333 square miles (only 12.5 percent of the state total) lying between the Apalachicola and Suwannee rivers, then known as Middle Florida. The remaining 53 percent was distributed fairly evenly between West and East Florida, 25 percent being in the former and 28 percent in the latter. But since West Florida -between the Perdido and Apalachicola rivershas an area …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 24, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xxiv, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxiv, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 24
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Tequesta: Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society
Tequesta: Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The fourth issue of Tequesta, “The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida” appeared while the last number of our Quarterly was in press. This one was edited by Professor Leonard R. Muller, of the University of Miami, with an advisory board of Harold E. Briggs, David O. True, and H. Frank Williams.
The Bulow Plantation, 1821-1835, Ruth Danenhower Wilson
The Bulow Plantation, 1821-1835, Ruth Danenhower Wilson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the dense jungle growth of a hammock ten miles north of Ormond, are bare arches of coquina and great rectangular chimneys of another age towering above the live oaks and palmettos-all surrounded by the desolation of more than a century. This is what is left of Bulow Ville, one of the largest of the sixteen plantations, each working more than one hundred slaves, which were destroyed by the Indians early in 1835 in the section south and west of St. Augustine.
Pioneer Florida: The Pad-Guad At Pensacola, 1830, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: The Pad-Guad At Pensacola, 1830, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Any well-rounded history of a country or of a section must include an account of the habits, customs and pastimes of its people in each generation. For Florida, not much has been told of these during our pioneer period from 1821, when it became a possession of the United States, to its admission to statehood in 1845. The human side of life in that period was recorded mostly in the minds of the old inhabitants, and when that generation passed the records were gone too. Every bit of authentic information relating to this period such as diaries and contemporaneous letters, …
Contemporaneous Reactions To Statehood: State Government, Benjamin D. Wright
Contemporaneous Reactions To Statehood: State Government, Benjamin D. Wright
Florida Historical Quarterly
Including Florida a State, from the Florida Herald, St. Augustine; Public Meeting in Quincy from the Florida Sentinel, Tallahassee; Florida (verse), Ione; The State of Florida, from the Florida Sentinel, Tallahassee