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Notes On The Life Of James Grant Prior And Subsequent To His Governorship Of East Florida, Philip C. Tucker
Notes On The Life Of James Grant Prior And Subsequent To His Governorship Of East Florida, Philip C. Tucker
Florida Historical Quarterly
To the general reader of Florida history, James Grant is but governor of British East Florida. Had the country remained English for a few more decades, it might well have been that those seven years held the most important service of his long public life; for during that time he laid, in a wilderness, the sound foundation of a typical British colony. But as that beginning came to naught; his governorship is only the midpoint of a military career which began in 1741 as an ensign and carried him to the rank of general in 1796.
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1874. Part Iv, Kathryn T. Abbey
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1874. Part Iv, Kathryn T. Abbey
Florida Historical Quarterly
The record of El Destino and Chemonie plantations cannot be brought to a close without some account of the changes wrought there by the ravages of the War for Southern Independence, no matter how meager that account has to be. And meager it is. Beyond a few letters, some broken statistical memoranda jotted down by George Noble Jones, and a score or more bits of paper strewn about the El Destino attic, there is nothing. It is with the fullest realization of this circumstance and the resulting limitation of the picture of the plantations that the following narrative is presented.
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 8, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
New Members, Florida Historical Society
New Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
France Versus Spain In Florida, 1562-1564 (Prize Essay), Donald Jaeger
France Versus Spain In Florida, 1562-1564 (Prize Essay), Donald Jaeger
Florida Historical Quarterly
This essay was awarded a first prize in the Irving Bacheller-Florida Historical Society essay contest for Florida high school students, held at Rollins College under the direction of Alfred J. Hanna, on February twenty-second last. Its author, Donald Jaegar, is a student of Dade City High School. The other prize winners were: Thelma Baker of Orlando, Pyrle Dillingham of Delray Beach, and Laura Belle Fisher of Tampa. These three wrote on The Conquistadores of Florida, 1513-1561.
Cooperation Of State Governments With Historical Societies, Harold Colee
Cooperation Of State Governments With Historical Societies, Harold Colee
Florida Historical Quarterly
This address was delivered before The Florida Historical Society in annual meeting at St. Augustine, February 8, 1929.
Key West And Salvage In 1850, John C. Hoyt
Key West And Salvage In 1850, John C. Hoyt
Florida Historical Quarterly
From the beginning there was wide difference of opinion and sharp controversy in regard to wrecking, the principal occupation of the people of a town which for a time was the largest in Florida. The nature of the business (for it came to be an extensive and well-regulated business) and human nature rendered any agreement between owner and salvor difficult if not impossible; hence, after 1828, every case was automatically taken before the district court which was established at Key West in that year almost wholly for the adjudication of these admiralty cases, and owners and masters of the wrecking …
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Iii, Kathryn T. Abbey
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Iii, Kathryn T. Abbey
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most interesting as well as the most elusive aspects of El Destino life was the mill plant. A few years after George Noble Jones came into possession of his Florida holdings, he undertook to establish his own mills. The facilities for the project were near at hand, for the plantation was heavily wooded and water-power was available from Burnt Mill Creek and the St. Marks River, both of which flowed through his property. By 1850 the enterprise had been started ; it consisted of a dam, of somewhat imposing size for its day and locality, and a …
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 8, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
New Members, Florida Historical Society
New Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society
Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Letter Of Colonel James Gadsden On The Seminole Council, James Gadsden
Letter Of Colonel James Gadsden On The Seminole Council, James Gadsden
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Seminole Council, October 23-25, 1834, T. Frederick Davis
The Seminole Council, October 23-25, 1834, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
The territory embraced within the state of Florida was not acquired by the United States through direct purchase from Spain. The treaty ceding this territory was drawn around a claim clause of this country and its citizens against the Spanish government for alleged damages for various reasons. The United States government agreed to cancel its claims and assume the payment of those of its citizens to an amount not exceeding five million dollars, in consideration of which Spain ceded Florida. The transfer of government was accomplished in July, 1821; whereupon General Andrew Jackson became provisional governor.
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Ii, Kathryn T. Abbey
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Ii, Kathryn T. Abbey
Florida Historical Quarterly
The second instalment of documents relating to the plantations of El Destino and Chemonie contains records of Chemonie during its first year as part of the Jones property. The estate was located some six miles north of El Destino in Leon County, and was purchased by Mary Savage Nuttall a few months before her marriage to George Noble Jones. The object of the purchase was to give employment to some eighty negroes whom the future Mrs. Jones had inherited from the estate of an uncle, William Savage. It is probable that not all of the group were placed on Chemonie, …
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 7, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
New Members, Florida Historical Society
New Members, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society
Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910, Part Ii, Samuel Pasco
Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910, Part Ii, Samuel Pasco
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Seminole War. - The treaty negotiated with the Florida tribes of Indians at Moultrie Creek, September 18, 1823, provided for their removal to a location on the peninsula designated in the treaty, but by an additional article some of the principal chiefs and their connections were allowed to remain in Middle Florida upon certain bodies of land granted to them for their use and occupation. The main body of the Indians removed to the district assigned to them during the winter of 1824. They had left their old homes and hunting grounds with great reluctance. They were not satisfied …
St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine; The Franciscans In Florida, Charles H. Mohr O.S.B.
St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine; The Franciscans In Florida, Charles H. Mohr O.S.B.
Florida Historical Quarterly
St. Francis Barracks, once the home of the sons of St. Francis, is perhaps the only religious edifice ever taken and used continuously by the United States for military purposes. This came about through the treaty made with Spain and not by an act of hostility against the Catholic Church. The Franciscans will probably never again take possession of their ancient home. Surely, though, some day-and may it be soon-there will be some place in Florida to which they will be called to renew the work so successfully and efficiently performed by their saintly and courageous predecessors.
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I, Kathryn A. Abbey
Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I, Kathryn A. Abbey
Florida Historical Quarterly
This series of plantation documents will be continued through several numbers of the QUARTERLY. Taken singly, some of these may seem to be of slight interest and of no value to the recording of Florida’s history; but they have been selected to give a view of plantation life and conditions and practice from as many different directions as possible, and it is believed that together they picture at least an outline of what a typical Middle Florida plantation was before the War. Portions of the journals of the overseers, their letters to the owner, and extracts literatim from the other …
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Verso, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 7, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Donations, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.