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Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, 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

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Colonial Land Claims In East And West Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Colonial Land Claims In East And West Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Records Survey (Works Progress Administration) is engaged in translating, abstracting, and indexing the manuscripts relative to land claims in East and West Florida in the Field Note Division of the Department of Agriculture at Tallahassee. These manuscripts constitute the archives of the Boards of Commissioners for the settlement of claims based on English and Spanish land grants in the Floridas, which Boards sat at Pensacola from 1822 to 1825 and at St. Augustine from 1823 to 1826. Although certain portions of this material, chiefly of a legal nature, are summarized and published in American State Papers, Public …


The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, 1815, Edmund Doyle Mar 2021

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, 1815, Edmund Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Debrahm’S Report On East Florida, 1773, Carita Doggett Corse Mar 2021

Debrahm’S Report On East Florida, 1773, Carita Doggett Corse

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most detailed of the early reports on the Florida peninsula is that of John Gerard William DeBrahm, Surveyor General of the southern district of North America for George III of England. His observations on Florida are contained in a work entitled “History of the Three Provinces, South Carolina, Georgia and East Florida,” in manuscript in the British Museum, with a copy in Harvard University Library. The South Carolina and Georgia sections of this report have been printed but the Florida material is still only in manuscript. A great benefit would be conferred upon students of Colonial Florida if this …


The Relationship Of Florida Archaeology To That Of Middle America, Doris Stone Mar 2021

The Relationship Of Florida Archaeology To That Of Middle America, Doris Stone

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida, as we all know, is a low coastal plain having as its principal element a limestone base, with its share of swamps and soft adhering mud which covers easily and in certain cases preserves. On the east and west coasts the environmental conditions differ from each other and from the peninsula itself, as well as from the entire southeastern area to which anthropologically it belongs, and from the rest of North America. On the western coast are the shell keys and coral reefs and not far distant on the eastern side, in addition to a few reefs, lie the …


The Disston Land Purchase, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

The Disston Land Purchase, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

To understand the importance of the Disston land purchase to the development of Florida it is necessary to consider the conditions in the state antecedent and relative.


The Military Occupation Of British West Florida, 1763, C. N. Howard Mar 2021

The Military Occupation Of British West Florida, 1763, C. N. Howard

Florida Historical Quarterly

The military occupation by the British troops of the former French and Spanish forts on the Gulf coast to the east of New Orleans was a movement of continental as well as of local importance. The twentieth article of the Treaty of Paris, 1763, had ceded to His Britannic Majesty all of the French territory to the east of the Mississippi river, except the port of New Orleans and the delta, and all of the Spanish territory of Florida, which extended westward to the Perdido river.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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A St. Joseph Diary Of 1839, Peter Haskew Mar 2021

A St. Joseph Diary Of 1839, Peter Haskew

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reverend Peter Haskew, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while serving on the “St. Joseph Station and Apalachicola Mission” in 1839 wrote the diary from which extracts follow. It has been edited with notes by Mr. F. W. Hoskins, in whose possession it is. The Reverend Mr. Haskew was born in Alabama in 1803. He was licensed to preach on September 4, 1834. Joining the Alabama Conference on trial in the following December, he was admitted in full connection on January 4, 1837. His first appointment was the Cedar Creek Circuit, Mobile District, for 1835; followed by Monticello, Irwinton District, for …


The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins Mar 2021

The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins

Florida Historical Quarterly

After the convention had adjourned and most of the members had departed, one of the delegates remained over for a few days, and before leaving wrote the following letter to the editor of the St. Joseph Times. It was reprinted in the St. Augustine News of March 2. The writer’s identity will probably never be known, for he used a nom de plume, signing himself “Ruminator”. He wrote as follows.


The Reception. Of The St. Joseph Constitution, Emily Porter Mar 2021

The Reception. Of The St. Joseph Constitution, Emily Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida framed her first constitution the principle of submitting constitutions to the people had been generally established. By January 11, 1839 the St. Joseph convention was ready to submit the fruit of its labors to the people for their approval or rejection. The date set for voting on the question was the first Monday in May 1839, coincident with electing a delegate to Congress.


St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, James O. Knauss Mar 2021

St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, James O. Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

No subject within the wide range of Florida’s history has stirred a greater interest than St. Joseph. Because of its quick rise to importance, its still more rapid decline, and the double tragedy of its extinction, an aspect of romance has settled upon the dead town, heightened through tradition and a haze of unreality engendered by the lack of definite records of its life. Dr. Knauss, searching out and bringing together these scanty records, gives us a light, for the first time, to penetrate that mist. - Ed .


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, 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

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Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Historical Records Survey And State Archives Survey Of Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Historical Records Survey And State Archives Survey Of Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814, Edmund Doyle Mar 2021

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814, Edmund Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

This report on the work of the surveys in Florida was submitted to the Manuscripts Committee of the Florida Historical Society and read at the annual meeting on January 25, 1938. Both surveys, in Florida, are directed by Mrs. Sue A. Mahorner.


Transportation In Territorial Florida, Alice Whitman Mar 2021

Transportation In Territorial Florida, Alice Whitman

Florida Historical Quarterly

FOREWORD. Two years ago Florida State College for Women was the recipient of an annual prize of fifty dollars offered by Mr. D. H. Redfearn of Miami for the winning essay on a selected topic in Florida History. The topic for this essay is selected by Mr. Redfearn with the consultation and advice of the Department of History of the College. Qualifications for the competition are broadly drawn because it is not the desire of the donor nor the department to limit it only to those who are specializing in history. Students are required to have had merely sufficient history …


A Map Of, The Road From Pensacola To St. Augustine, 1778 (With Nine Plates), Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

A Map Of, The Road From Pensacola To St. Augustine, 1778 (With Nine Plates), Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The attention of students of Florida history is called to the Stuart-Purcell map of the road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, which was brought to the writer’s notice by Dr. John R. Swanton. Considered both from the standpoint of the representation of topography, as well as the descriptive legend, it is the outstanding available account of the interior of western and much of northern Florida in the British colonial period.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Recent Accessions To The Library Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Recent Accessions To The Library Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Program, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Program, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Report Of The President, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Report Of The President, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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

The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1808-1814, Edmund Doyle Mar 2021

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1808-1814, Edmund Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

These letters are the first of a series of thirteen written by Edmund Doyle, their representative, to members of the firm of John Forbes & Co. (successors to Panton, Leslie & Co.) from their trading house on the Apalachicola river between 1808 and 1817, in some of which mention is made of the intrigues of Capt. George Woodbine in that region. As an introduction to this series there appeared in the October, 1937, issue of the Quarterly a paper by Mark F. Boyd entitled Events at Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River, 1808-1818.