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Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the directors' meeting, new members


Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes The Hillsorough County Historical Commission, The Historical Association of Southern Florida, Seminole County Historical Society, Halifax Historical Society, General Clinch Memorial Association


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Florida: Historic, Dramatic, Contemporary, by J. E. Dovell, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida. 2 vols., 995 pp. (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York [1952]); Miranda: World Citizen. By Joseph F. Thorning (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1952). pp. 311. $5.00.


The Fatio Family: A Book Review, Walter C. Hartridge Apr 2021

The Fatio Family: A Book Review, Walter C. Hartridge

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of the Fatios and their descendants is a significant contribution to the regional history of our country, and it deserves to be viewed and evaluated against the background of historical writing relating to the southeast for the past century and a half.


Documents Describing The Second And Third Expeditions Of Lieutenant Diego Pena To Apalachee And Apalachicolo In 1717 And 1718, Mark F. Boyd Apr 2021

Documents Describing The Second And Third Expeditions Of Lieutenant Diego Pena To Apalachee And Apalachicolo In 1717 And 1718, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The success attained by Lieutenant Diego Pena in the discharge of the mission to Apalachee and Apalachicolo, to which he was assigned in the summer of 1716, made him the logical choice for similar duties in the following two years. The authorities in St. Augustine entertained the hope of repopulating Apalachee through inducements offered to surviving Apalacheans then living along the Apalachicolo (present-day Chattahoochee) river and elsewhere, as well as members of adjacent and related tribes, whose disillusionment with the English had produced the then recent Yamassee war. Knowledge that the success of this project was imperiled by the English, …


Foreign Travellers In Florida, 1900-1950, Lawrence S. Thompson Apr 2021

Foreign Travellers In Florida, 1900-1950, Lawrence S. Thompson

Florida Historical Quarterly

During the first half of the twentieth century more foreign writers visited the South than at any other period in history. Among the various Southern states the most popular among this group of visitors were Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia. In many instances Virginia was a sort of afterthought to the customary visit to Washington, but the other three states attracted foreigners primarily on account of their own colorful history and scenery. If New Orleans were to be placed in a separate category as a tourist attraction, Florida would outstrip Louisiana in this respect. Moreover, a large proportion of travellers …


St. Augustine During The Civil War, Omega G. East Apr 2021

St. Augustine During The Civil War, Omega G. East

Florida Historical Quarterly

Three days before Florida seceded from the Union about 125 state artillerymen marched resolutely on Fort Marion’s Federal garrison as ordered by Governor M. S. Perry. The action which resulted cannot be recorded as one of the major engagements of the war, if we are to believe Private J. Gardner (a member of the expedition), who reminisced: “We took possession of the fort, and captured the entire garrison, consisting of one lonely sergeant, well advanced in years, who surrendered very graciously.“


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 31, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting, report of the treasurer, new officials, and new members


The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The forty-first Program Meeting of the Historical Association of Southern Florida was presented on March 25 last while our Quarterly was in the press.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Florida of the Inca, by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Translated and edited by John Grier Varner and Jeanette Johnson Varner. (1951, University of Texas Press, Austin, XLV and 655 pages. $7.50.); A Survey of Indian River Archaeology, Florida. Irving Rouse (296 pp., 8 pls., 15 figs., 5 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 44, New Haven, 1951.; Chronology at South Indian Field, Florida. Vera Masius Ferguson (62 pp., 4 pls., 10 figs., 7 tables). Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 45, New Haven, 1951. ($4., the two); History of Jackson County, by J. Randall …


Settlers From Connecticut In Spanish Florida, 1808-1816, Robert E. Rutherford Apr 2021

Settlers From Connecticut In Spanish Florida, 1808-1816, Robert E. Rutherford

Florida Historical Quarterly

Ambrose Hull was one of the Protestant Americans who answered Spain’s call of 1788 for immigrants to settle and develop the Florida lands. Hull obtained a grant of 2,600 acres in the New Smyrna area early in 1801 and began building his settlement, as narrated in Part I in de last issue of this Quarterly. Unfortunately, his first attempt was cut short by an Indian raid in which he suffered damages amounting to several thousand dollars. Nevertheless, Ambrose and his wife, Abigail, with her sister, Stella Hall, soon began rebuilding.


Documents Concerning A Voyage To The Miami Region In 1793, Richard K. Murdoch Apr 2021

Documents Concerning A Voyage To The Miami Region In 1793, Richard K. Murdoch

Florida Historical Quarterly

That the southern portion of the Florida peninsular possessed no significant commercial value in colonial days was generally conceded, but its strategic importance as guardian of the Bahama Channel was fully recognized. Governors of Florida, both English and Spanish, stressed the possible dangers if this region were permitted to fall prey to enemy occupation. In spite of the acknowledged importance of the area as a military outpost, no program was undertaken by the Spanish authorities to erect permanent military bases south of the fort of San Marcos in St. Augustine and the battery on the shore of Matanzas Island. Only …


The Pensacola Indian Trade, Peter A. Brannon Apr 2021

The Pensacola Indian Trade, Peter A. Brannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any account of the trade with the southern Indians out of Pensacola must of necessity be a historical recording of the contacts of Spanish (and British to an extent) West Florida with the Alabama Basin region to the north. The “Pensacola Trade Route” incidents make much of the romantic story of the early settlement of the Gulf country.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 31, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xxxi, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxxi, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 31


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the annual meeting


Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Jacksonville Historical Society and the St. Augustine Historical Society


Book Reviews, Weymouth T. Jordan Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Weymouth T. Jordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890; by Allen Johnston Going. (University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1951. Pp. ix, 256. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $4.00.), Liberty and Property, by R. V. Coleman. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. Pp. 606.)


Book Review: Reunion And Reaction: The Compromise Of 1877 And The End Of Reconstruction, Charles T. Thrift Jr. Apr 2021

Book Review: Reunion And Reaction: The Compromise Of 1877 And The End Of Reconstruction, Charles T. Thrift Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, by C. Vann Woodward. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. pp. x, 263, $4.),


Letter From The Land Of Flowers, Fruit And Plenty, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Letter From The Land Of Flowers, Fruit And Plenty, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is from The Southern Mercury, Dallas, Texas, January 9, 1890. Professor Robert C. Cotner of the University of Texas called it to the attention of the Quarterly.


The Cowkeeper Dynasty Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter Apr 2021

The Cowkeeper Dynasty Of The Seminole Nation, Kenneth W. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

It is generally agreed that the sons - or possibly nephews, at any rate the immediate successors - of the Alachua chief, who it was suggested in a previous article was Cowkeeper rather than Secoffee, - that these sons were Payne and Bowlegs. Sprague is probably correct when he writes of the former, “Payne was of a different character from his father and not to be led astray and blinded by absurd revelations and traditions. Though a bold and intrepid warrior, he cared more for the happiness of his people than the indulgence of vicious passions, or the influences of …


Settlers From Connecticut In Spanish Florida: Letters Of Ambrose Hull And Stella Hart 1804-1806, Robert E. Rutherford Apr 2021

Settlers From Connecticut In Spanish Florida: Letters Of Ambrose Hull And Stella Hart 1804-1806, Robert E. Rutherford

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida was the northern bastion of Spain’s New World empire from an early period; and, except for brief British possession (1763-1783), the land was hers for almost three hundred years. The era following 1783, when Great Britain returned Florida to Spain, until 1821, when Florida became United States territory, is known as the second Spanish period of Florida history.


De Soto’S Ucita And The Terra Ceia Site, Ripley P. Bullen Apr 2021

De Soto’S Ucita And The Terra Ceia Site, Ripley P. Bullen

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any Indian site to qualify as De Soto’s Ucita must possess geographical attributes which agree with those assignable to that site by close reading of the De Soto narratives. This paper examines only the claim of the well-known, large Indian site at Terra Ceia, on the east side of McGill Bay. For this purpose Shaws Point on Tampa Bay is assumed to be the landing place of De Soto’s expedition, although that identification has been questioned by some.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 30, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


De Soto’S First Headquarters In Florida, John R. Swanton Apr 2021

De Soto’S First Headquarters In Florida, John R. Swanton

Florida Historical Quarterly

Knowing that Hernando de Soto, his expedition, and the places he visited will probably be matters of discussion for years and years, I have not recently ventured any further contributions regarding them. However, challenge of one of my conclusions, the probable site of the Indian town of Ucita where De Soto established his first North American headquarters, has recently been made in a scientifically motivated paper (“The Terra Ceia Site, Manatee County, Florida.” No. 3 of the Publications of the Florida Anthropological Society, by Ripley P. Bullen), and this calls for some comments.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the director's meeting and contributors