American Studies Commons^™

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 22, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents

Contributors To This Number, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

New Books, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes Arnold, “Autobiographical Notes of a Lincoln Conspirator” Albert C. Manucy; Peckham, ‘‘Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the William L. Clements Library”; Cabell and Hanna, “The St. Johns.”

The Antillean Problem In Florida Archeology, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost since the beginning of archeological studies in Florida the problem of aboriginal relations between Florida and the Antilles has concerned investigators. Many similarities, both archeological and ethnological, between the two areas have been noted. It shall be the purpose of this paper to discuss several aspects of the problem.

Spanish Grants In British West Florida, N. Howard

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the lesser but puzzling questions in British policy following the Seven Years’ War has always been why Lord Bute’s ministry gave up the strategic citadel of Havana in return for what the opponents of the treaty in England called the barren swamp of Florida. There are a number of reasonably logical explanations for the action, but thus far no certainty has emerged from the study of the maze of diplomatic correspondence which preceded the Treaty of Paris; and there still remains unproven the very important explanation that the action was more the result of internal politics in Britain …

Privateering In Florida Waters And Northwards: During The Revolution, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

With the outbreak of the Revolution East Florida, remaining loyal to the British crown, was cut off from intercourse and trade with the rebellious colonies to the north and was victimized by privateers. The province could no longer import its food supplies from its neighbors, and cargoes of munitions, ordnance stores, and domestic goods from England were subject to capture at sea. By the same method St. Augustine sought to avenge and reimburse herself for her losses.

Pioneer Florida: Indian Key And Wrecking In 1833, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

Indian Key, one of the upper keys off its southeast coast, crept into the history of Florida during the Seminole war when on August 7, 1840, it was attacked by Indians who killed the noted horticulturist and botanist Dr. Henry Perrine, resident of the island since December 1838. This event has been well covered by historical writers, but little is known of the situation at Indian Key prior to that time. An interesting account of conditions at Indian Key was published by the Charleston Mercury in 1833. The writer seems to have been a keen observer and it is believed …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 22, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Local Histories, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local history, in the aggregate, is as important as that of a country, and is of far greater interest to the majority. In comparison its bulk is huge, but little of it was recorded until the daily newspaper incidentally took up the job of preserving a record of the happenings of the community. The pioneer settlements of Florida had no newspapers of course, for with the first issue of a paper any village became a town overnight. The settlement of Florida can be considered as beginning with its cession to the United States (and this is not to start a …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes reviews of Whitfield, "Political and Legal History of Florida"; Manucy, The Building of Castillo de San Marcos

A Hitherto Unknown Map Of The Pensacola Coastal Region, 1762, R. H. Barlow

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the Sala de Cartografia of the State Museum of Jalisco (Mexico) in Guadalajara, exists a vellum map bearing the number 25. It is the entire hide of a small animal, drawn on in red, green and black. At the bottom is written the following:

“Carta reducida de la costa de Panzacola desde el cavo [sic] del norte, hasta el de S. Blas, corregida nuevamente, por D. Estevan de Ayarragaray, piloto de esta ensenada, y la dirige al exelmo Sor Marques de Cruillas, ***rrey de esta Nueva Espana, por orden del Sr. Diego Ortiz Parilla, governador del presidio de Panzacola. …

The Florida Census Of 1825, Dorothy Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Legislative Council that met in Tallahassee in November and December 1824 provided, by an act approved December 28, for the taking of a census in each county of the Territory. The census was to be taken by the receivers of tax returns in 1825 at the same time that they received returns of taxable persons or property. Each county census was to show the names of heads of families, names of white males over 21 years of age, names of white males under 21 years, names of white females over 21 years, names of white females under 21 years, …

The Enigma Of William Drayton, Charles L. Mowat

Florida Historical Quarterly

The career of William Drayton, chief justice of British East Florida, presents a problem in motives and loyalties which cannot, perhaps, be completely resolved but which deserves study, not only for its intrinsic interest, but because it must have been shared by many other Americans during the testing years of the Revolution. Drayton was an erudite and stubborn jurist in a great age of the common law, the age not only of Blackstone and Lord Mansfield but of many distinguished figures of the colonial bench and bar whose leadership in the cause of the American Revolution has been well recognized. …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 22, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Accessions To The Library, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Report Of The President And Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Journals Of Early Territorial Florida Legislative Proceedings, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Professor W. S. Jenkins, of the Department of Political Science of the University of North Carolina, has carried out an important project for the Library of Congress. A special effort has been made by the Library to secure files of the printed legislative journals of all of the states. Some of these journals were never printed, and in a few cases apparently no copy of the printed journals has survived.

The Union Catalog Of Floridiana, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This project at Rollins College has often been told of in the Quarterly; especially, in our issue of October 1937 (XVI. 119), is an account of its founding and of the well-laid plans for its growth and usefulness. So far as has been possible, these plans are being carried out, and today the Catalog is a well-established and constantly growing medium for the dissemination of information on every kind of printed or manuscript material relating in any way to Florida.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of: “List of the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba in the Archives of the North Carolina Historical Commission” Albert Manucy; “John Bartram: Diary of a Journey Through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, 1765-66.” Annotated by Francis Harper Katherine S. Lawson

Yellow Fever On The Blockade Of Indian River, John F. Van Nest

Florida Historical Quarterly

John Field Van Nest (1838-1864) was the son of John Van Nest and Elizabeth Leiper Janeway Van Nest. The above letters are published with the Bind permission of Sarah Hayes Van Nest and Niel W. Upham, relatives of the writer. They are in the possession of Mr. Upham.

Richard Keith Call, Florida Territorial Leader, Sidney Walter Martin

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the most colorful figures involved in the destiny of the Territory of Florida was Virginia-born Richard Keith Call. He was an Indian fighter, served two terms as governor, and left behind him an impressive political career. Most of his early years were spent in Kentucky; and the recollection of a happy childhood in that state often caused him to return for visits after his permanent home had been established in Florida. He spent several years in a military academy in Tennessee, but with the outbreak of the War of 1812, the restless and impetuous youth left the academy …

The Gibraltar Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

A hundred years ago the United States was suffering frequent growing pains. The Louisiana and Florida cessions had uncorked the Mississippi, and the hardy pioneers of its valley were floating tons of produce down-river to New Orleans. From that growing port Yankee merchantman, flying Dutchman, and British brig edged out into the Gulf Stream and headed for the narrow mouth of the Gulf where they swept through the Straits past Tortugas with the Havannah to starboard, and the two scarce thirty leagues apart.

Botanical Explorers Of The Southeastern United States, H. Harold Hume

Florida Historical Quarterly

The southeastern United States, and in particular the part now embraced within the state of Florida, is an unusual area from the standpoint of its plant life. Here nature with a lavish hand scattered far and wide an unrivaled flora. It has no counterpart either in the United States or in the whole world. The number of species is great and individual specimens of the higher plants so numerous that in the pristine condition they completely covered the surface of the soil on all but the poorest lands. In support of this statement it may be added that there are …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 21, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Triangular Contest For Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida’s colonial history is mainly that of an intermittent struggle for possession by the three great European nations-Spain, France, and Great Britain. Though efforts were made at colonization, none were really successful except the fair beginning of the English in East Florida; the beginning in the West was in those parts only nominally and temporarily Florida. The purpose of Spain’s two hundred years of sovereignty was to keep the others out, and that was the reason for St. Augustine and Pensacola-two oases in a wilderness.