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The St. Joseph Convention Iii: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins
The St. Joseph Convention Iii: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins
Florida Historical Quarterly
At last the work of the convention drew to a close. The differences that arose as the various articles of the constitution were reported by each committee were finally adjusted and the proposed constitution was ready to be submitted to the house. Nearly six weeks had passed since the convention had assembled. Many acquaintances had been made, friendships formed, and associations enjoyed, and now this was the last day. The convention would pass into history, and many were never to meet again. We cannot do better than quote from the journal.
U. S. S. Peacock In The War Of 1812: A Fight Off The Florida Coast, T. Frederick Davis
U. S. S. Peacock In The War Of 1812: A Fight Off The Florida Coast, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the second year of the second war with England, known as the War of 1812, keels were laid for a number of fighting craft for the United States navy. Among them was that of a sloop of war which. was launched at New York, September 19, 1813, seventy-two working days after the keel was laid. Her dimensions were, length 118 feet, breadth of beam 32 feet, depth of hold 14 feet. The sloop had 26 gun-ports, was of 509 tons, and was classed next below a frigate. She was christened Peacock.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 16, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Cleared For The Last Action Of The War Of 1812, Florida Historical Society
Cleared For The Last Action Of The War Of 1812, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
List Of Members, Florida Historical Society
List Of Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Letter To The King Of Spain From Officers In De Soto’S Army, Florida Historical Society
Letter To The King Of Spain From Officers In De Soto’S Army, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Note-The original of this letter is in Archivo General de Indias, Seville. The translation is by Buchingham Smith, and is reprinted from the Bradford Club edition of his Narratives. (New York, 1866)
The Arrival Of De Soto’S Expedition In Florida, Mark F. Boyd
The Arrival Of De Soto’S Expedition In Florida, Mark F. Boyd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first account of the De Soto expedition to appear in print was the Relecam verdadeira dos trabalhos q ho governador do Fernado de souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passarom no descobrimeto da provincia da Frolida, Agora novamete feita per hu fidalgo de Elvas, which was published in Evora, Portugal in 1557.
Concession Made By The King Of Spain To De Soto, Florida Historical Society
Concession Made By The King Of Spain To De Soto, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
This translation was made by Buckingham Smith from a copy in the Archivo de Indias at Seville (rubricated by the secretary Samano). It was published in the appendix of his translation of the Elvas Narrative, the Bradford Club edition (New York, 1866) from which it is reprinted. Florida historians and all who are interested in our history are under great obligation to this Floridian and scholar who made so much of our Spanish colonial history known to us.
Letter Of De Soto To The Secular Cabildo Of Santiago De Cuba, Hernando Desoto
Letter Of De Soto To The Secular Cabildo Of Santiago De Cuba, Hernando Desoto
Florida Historical Quarterly
This translation of De Soto’s letter, doubtless the first letter ever written with a Florida date line, has been made for the Quarterly by James A. Robertson, managing editor of Hispanic American Historical Review and editor of the series of volumes on Florida’s history published by the Florida State Historical Society. These include a facsimile of the first edition of the Elvas Narrative with a new translation of that early classic by Dr. Robertson himself. As De Soto’s letter bears so important a relation to our knowledge of the beginning of his exploration here in Florida, Dr. Robertson has made …
The Landing Place Of De Soto, John R. Swanton
The Landing Place Of De Soto, John R. Swanton
Florida Historical Quarterly
It admits of no reasonable doubt that the place where Hernando de Soto’s army landed, at the end of May, 1539, was in Tampa Bay. Although I have considered other possibilities carefully I shall not enter upon a discussion of them in the present article. But while there has been almost unanimous agreement on this point, the exact location of the landing place within the bay has given occasion for very sharp differences of opinion for over a hundred years and almost every possible site has been made the basis for someone’s theory. Too many of these hypotheses have been …
The De Soto Quadricentennial, Florida Historical Society
The De Soto Quadricentennial, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 16, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
List Of Members, Florida Historical Society
List Of Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Librarian, Florida Historical Society
Report Of The Librarian, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
To The Members, Florida Historical Society
To The Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The directors, sure of the members’ interest in Society affairs, wish to bring the library fund and other matters to their attention.
Notes, Florida Historical Society
The Panton, Leslie Papers: John Mckee To James Innerarity, 1811, John Mckee
The Panton, Leslie Papers: John Mckee To James Innerarity, 1811, John Mckee
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Comments On The Delgado Papers, John R. Swanton
Comments On The Delgado Papers, John R. Swanton
Florida Historical Quarterly
Evidently Delgado uses the word Tawasa much as Calderon does for at least part of the Upper Creeks besides its special application to the town itself. He seems to differentiate between the province of Tawasa (or Tabasa) near the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa and the Tukabahchee province which we may assume was around the bend of the Tallapoosa and above.
A Union Catalog Of Floridiana, Alfred Masbrouck
A Union Catalog Of Floridiana, Alfred Masbrouck
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although the history of Florida is more ancient, is as varied, and as interesting as that of any other state in the Union, much of it is now virtually unknown and little is as well known as it ought to be. While we have profited by the scholarly work of several able historians who have sought and found important sources from which to write of Florida’s history, many others have learned that both primary and secondary material is exceedingly difficult to locate. Also there are general readers, our winter visitors and prospective investors, who wish to know more about Florida, …
The St. Augustine Historical Restoration, Eleanor Beeson
The St. Augustine Historical Restoration, Eleanor Beeson
Florida Historical Quarterly
The St. Augustine Historical Restoration conducted under the auspices of Carnegie Institution of Washington with the cooperation of the City of St. Augustine is dedicated to the purpose of preserving and redeveloping the physical remains of the centuries of history of this region, site of the first permanent white settlement on the Atlantic seaboard, thereby creating a beautiful national shrine where the meaning of the great events embodied in these monuments will be understandable.
The St. Joseph Convention (Continued), F. W. Hoskins
The St. Joseph Convention (Continued), F. W. Hoskins
Florida Historical Quarterly
Next year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the convention which framed Florida’s first constitution. The legislature at its last session provided for the celebration of that centennial at the site of old St. Joseph, where on December 3, 1838 there gathered a body of Floridians which has never been equalled in prominence and ability*. In the last issue of the Quarterly the known facts were told of the decision to hold the convention, the election of delegates, the preparations made for the meeting, and the first day’s proceedings. The account will be continued through the next several numbers. It is …
Events At Prospect Bluff On The Apalachicola River, 1808-1818, Mark F. Boyd
Events At Prospect Bluff On The Apalachicola River, 1808-1818, Mark F. Boyd
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most important branches of commerce during the American colonial period was the Indian trade. Search of opportunities for barter was a powerful motive in French and British exploration, and the trader was the principal Caucasian emissary with whom the primitive Indian came in contact. After the settlement of South Carolina, Charleston became an important center of the southern trade, a position later shared with Savannah. From these points English traders penetrated to the country of the Cherokees and Creeks and later to that of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, where they successfully competed with the French and Spanish. …
Map: Indian Mounds Of Tampa Bay Region, Florida Historical Society
Map: Indian Mounds Of Tampa Bay Region, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 16, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, Florida Historical Society
The Rt. Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the past year interest in the Society and its work has broadened in the Miami-Palm Beach district as it has nowhere else, and Bishop Thomas was the mainspring of that movement.
The Public Buildings Of Pensacola, 1818, Andrew Jackson
The Public Buildings Of Pensacola, 1818, Andrew Jackson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Description and conditions of the public buildings in the town of Pensacola, delivered to Lieut. A. L. Sands of the U. S. Corps of Artillery, agreeably to the articles of capitulation, entered into at the Barrancas on the 28th day of May, 1818, between his excellency the Governor of the Province of West Florida, and Major Gen. Andrew Jackson of the U. S. Army.
The Panton, Leslie Papers: John Graham To Wm. Simpson, 1808, John Graham
The Panton, Leslie Papers: John Graham To Wm. Simpson, 1808, John Graham
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins
The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins
Florida Historical Quarterly
At the time of its cession to the United States in 1821 Florida’s white population was probably about five thousand. There were only two towns, or settlements, of any importance in the territory, and they were near four hundred miles apart. Considering that, with one exception, Florida was the largest territory or State east of the Mississippi river, it can be imagined what an undeveloped country it must have been; remember too that the interior of the peninsula was yet unexplored and its geography unknown.