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New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Tallahassee Fire Of 1843, F. Eppes Mar 2021

The Tallahassee Fire Of 1843, F. Eppes

Florida Historical Quarterly

An account of this conflagration, which destroyed the greater part of the town as first built, appeared in the Quarterly in the issue for July, 1924. These additional documents and notes are taken from contemporaneous issues of the Floridian and the Sentinel, Tallahassee newspapers.


Jean Ribaut, His Personality And Achievements (Prize Essay), Kenneth Curry Mar 2021

Jean Ribaut, His Personality And Achievements (Prize Essay), Kenneth Curry

Florida Historical Quarterly

This essay was awarded a first prize in the Irving Bacheller-Florida Historical Society contest for Florida high-school students, held at Rollins College under the direction of Alfred J. Hanna, February twenty-first last. Mr. Curry, its author, is a student in Orlando High School. The other prize-winners and the subjects of their essays were: Ruthjeanne Bellamy, also of Orlando High School, who wrote on Pirates of the Florida Coast; Nellie Kennedy, of Hernando High School, Brooksville, who wrote on the same subject; and Chester R. Yates, of Plant City High School, on Territorial and Early Statehood of Florida.


Music Of The Seminole Indians, Minnie Moore-Willson Mar 2021

Music Of The Seminole Indians, Minnie Moore-Willson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In her address to the last annual meeting of the Historical Society, published in the July number of the QUARTERLY, Mrs. Minnie Moore-Willson told of the music of the Seminoles, and mention was made there of the song and the other melodies which appear on the, following pages.


Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910. Part I, Samuel Pasco Mar 2021

Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910. Part I, Samuel Pasco

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was in January, 1827, that Jefferson County was formed out of Leon, with its western boundary nearly the same as at present and the eastern boundary remaining at the Suwannee until December, 1827, when Madison County was established. Thus Jefferson County became a separate territorial division and governmental organization, after being at times a part of the provinces of East Florida and West Florida, and of the counties of Escambia, Jackson, Gadsden, and Leon. It extends from the Georgia line to the Gulf, a distance of about forty miles, and at the base line is about twenty miles wide. …


Samuel Pasco (1834-1917), Samuel Pasco Mar 2021

Samuel Pasco (1834-1917), Samuel Pasco

Florida Historical Quarterly

The accompanying history of Jefferson County, Florida, was prepared by Senator Pasco at the time of the dedication of the court house at Monticello in 1910, and was in part used by him in an address on that occasion. As first written the history of this region was traced from the earliest times to 1910; but because much relating to the period prior to the establishment of the county in 1827 has appeared in other articles in the QUARTERLY the narrative will begin with that year. The entire manuscript has been given to and may be seen in the collections …


Letters From The Public Record Office, London, James Grant Mar 2021

Letters From The Public Record Office, London, James Grant

Florida Historical Quarterly

Governor Grant’s Letter to Lachlan MacLeane Esqr. in answer to an Official Letter wrote by order of the Earl of Shelburne, concerning Denys Rolle Esqr.


Denys Rolle. And Rollestown, A Pioneer For Utopia, Carita Doggett Corse Mar 2021

Denys Rolle. And Rollestown, A Pioneer For Utopia, Carita Doggett Corse

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of Denys Rolle and his attempt at colonization in Florida is based on forty-three contemporaneous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, London,- letters and reports of Governors Grant and Tonyn to the Lords of Trade and Plantations,. to the Earl of Shelburne and to Lord Hillsborough; memorials of Rolle, and his letters to the governor and the secretaries; Acts of the Privy Council; private letters; etc. Copies of these papers were secured from London by Mrs. Corse and given to the library of the Florida Historical Society where they may be seen; hence it is considered unnecessary …


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 7, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Book Review: The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1785, Kathryn T. Abbey Mar 2021

Book Review: The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1785, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of The Spanish-American Frontier: 1783-1795, By Arthur Preston Whitaker. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1927. III+245 pp. Maps and Index.)


Letters Of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U.S. Army, 1837-1838, Part Iii, Samuel Forry Mar 2021

Letters Of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U.S. Army, 1837-1838, Part Iii, Samuel Forry

Florida Historical Quarterly

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The Seminole Indians Of Florida, Minnie Moore-Willson Mar 2021

The Seminole Indians Of Florida, Minnie Moore-Willson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Looking backwards for nearly two centuries we see a band of red Americans, who are to become the Seminoles, separate themselves from the Creek Confederacy of Georgia and Alabama and cross the boundary into Florida. Subjects now of the Spanish crown, they become a nation to themselves, and under the sunny skies of the peninsular establish their golden-rule tribal government-characterized throughout by independence, kindliness, and honor.


An Early Poem On Florida Mar 2021

An Early Poem On Florida

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the Bodleian Library at Oxford, there is to be found in Ashmolean Manuscript 48, ff. 140b, 141, a poem on Florida. The penmanship suggests the early part of the seventeenth century; certain stanzas are of prior origin.


Macgregor’S Invasion Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

Macgregor’S Invasion Of Florida, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gregor MacGregor was the grandson of Gregor MacGregor, the Scotchman, who enlisted in the Black Watch, then Semphill’s Highlanders, and was called in Gaelic “Gregor, the Beautiful.” When the regiment was first ordered to England, in 1743, “Gregor, the Beautiful” and two others were sent on in advance to London, so that the king of England, who was on the point of starting for the continent, might see some soldiers of the regiment before leaving. One of the men died en route, but MacGregor and the other were paraded before the king at St. James’s and gave an exhibition of …


General Gregor Macgregor, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

General Gregor Macgregor, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This portrait of MacGregor was probably painted in 1821; it appears in Strangeways’ Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, published in London in 1822.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 7, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Membership Roll Of The Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Membership Roll Of The Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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In Memoriam, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

In Memoriam, 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 Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Annual Meeting Of The Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Letter Of James Monroe, Secretary Of State, To George Matthews, April 4, 1812, James Monroe Mar 2021

Letter Of James Monroe, Secretary Of State, To George Matthews, April 4, 1812, James Monroe

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the original, in Bureau of Index and Archives, Washington, D. C.


Fort George (St. Michael), Pensacola, Frederick Cubberly Mar 2021

Fort George (St. Michael), Pensacola, Frederick Cubberly

Florida Historical Quarterly

On viewing Pensacola for the first time one is at once impressed with the gradual rise of Palafox Street from the waters of the bay northward to the top of an eminence where tall shaft has been erected in memory of the soldiers of the Confederacy. To the southwest of this monument there are still traces of a fort where grim-visaged war was waged more than a century ago. Flags of three nations have waved from the fortification built on this commanding position, and the results of battles fought here have reached to distant lands and had weight in the …


Letters Of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U. S. Army, 1837-1838. Part Ii, Samuel Forry Mar 2021

Letters Of Samuel Forry, Surgeon U. S. Army, 1837-1838. Part Ii, Samuel Forry

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida Place-Names Of Indian Origin, Frank Drew Mar 2021

Florida Place-Names Of Indian Origin, Frank Drew

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first portion of this article, all that relates to the Indian Netahyaonka, has been taken by the Editor from a letter of Mr. Drew’s. This narrative of that survivor of the ancient Miccosukees gives additional interest to the author’s former notes on Florida Indian names (published here in the issues of April, 1926, and July, 1927) and to those which will appear in coming numbers of the Quarterly.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.