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Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A St. Joseph Diary Of 1839, Peter Haskew Mar 2021

A St. Joseph Diary Of 1839, Peter Haskew

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reverend Peter Haskew, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while serving on the “St. Joseph Station and Apalachicola Mission” in 1839 wrote the diary from which extracts follow. It has been edited with notes by Mr. F. W. Hoskins, in whose possession it is. The Reverend Mr. Haskew was born in Alabama in 1803. He was licensed to preach on September 4, 1834. Joining the Alabama Conference on trial in the following December, he was admitted in full connection on January 4, 1837. His first appointment was the Cedar Creek Circuit, Mobile District, for 1835; followed by Monticello, Irwinton District, for …


The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins Mar 2021

The St. Joseph Convention: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins

Florida Historical Quarterly

After the convention had adjourned and most of the members had departed, one of the delegates remained over for a few days, and before leaving wrote the following letter to the editor of the St. Joseph Times. It was reprinted in the St. Augustine News of March 2. The writer’s identity will probably never be known, for he used a nom de plume, signing himself “Ruminator”. He wrote as follows.


The Reception. Of The St. Joseph Constitution, Emily Porter Mar 2021

The Reception. Of The St. Joseph Constitution, Emily Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida framed her first constitution the principle of submitting constitutions to the people had been generally established. By January 11, 1839 the St. Joseph convention was ready to submit the fruit of its labors to the people for their approval or rejection. The date set for voting on the question was the first Monday in May 1839, coincident with electing a delegate to Congress.


St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, James O. Knauss Mar 2021

St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, James O. Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

No subject within the wide range of Florida’s history has stirred a greater interest than St. Joseph. Because of its quick rise to importance, its still more rapid decline, and the double tragedy of its extinction, an aspect of romance has settled upon the dead town, heightened through tradition and a haze of unreality engendered by the lack of definite records of its life. Dr. Knauss, searching out and bringing together these scanty records, gives us a light, for the first time, to penetrate that mist. - Ed .


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Historical Records Survey And State Archives Survey Of Florida, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Historical Records Survey And State Archives Survey Of Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814, Edmund Doyle Mar 2021

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814, Edmund Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

This report on the work of the surveys in Florida was submitted to the Manuscripts Committee of the Florida Historical Society and read at the annual meeting on January 25, 1938. Both surveys, in Florida, are directed by Mrs. Sue A. Mahorner.


Transportation In Territorial Florida, Alice Whitman Mar 2021

Transportation In Territorial Florida, Alice Whitman

Florida Historical Quarterly

FOREWORD. Two years ago Florida State College for Women was the recipient of an annual prize of fifty dollars offered by Mr. D. H. Redfearn of Miami for the winning essay on a selected topic in Florida History. The topic for this essay is selected by Mr. Redfearn with the consultation and advice of the Department of History of the College. Qualifications for the competition are broadly drawn because it is not the desire of the donor nor the department to limit it only to those who are specializing in history. Students are required to have had merely sufficient history …


A Map Of, The Road From Pensacola To St. Augustine, 1778 (With Nine Plates), Mark F. Boyd Mar 2021

A Map Of, The Road From Pensacola To St. Augustine, 1778 (With Nine Plates), Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The attention of students of Florida history is called to the Stuart-Purcell map of the road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, which was brought to the writer’s notice by Dr. John R. Swanton. Considered both from the standpoint of the representation of topography, as well as the descriptive legend, it is the outstanding available account of the interior of western and much of northern Florida in the British colonial period.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 17, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Recent Accessions To The Library Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Recent Accessions To The Library Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Program, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Program, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Report Of The Treasurer, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Report Of The President, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Report Of The President, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1808-1814, Edmund Doyle Mar 2021

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1808-1814, Edmund Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

These letters are the first of a series of thirteen written by Edmund Doyle, their representative, to members of the firm of John Forbes & Co. (successors to Panton, Leslie & Co.) from their trading house on the Apalachicola river between 1808 and 1817, in some of which mention is made of the intrigues of Capt. George Woodbine in that region. As an introduction to this series there appeared in the October, 1937, issue of the Quarterly a paper by Mark F. Boyd entitled Events at Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River, 1808-1818.


The St. Joseph Convention Iii: The Making Of Florida’S First Constitution, F. W. Hoskins Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

List Of Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 Mar 2021

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 …