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An Early Nineteenth Centry Traveler In Pensacola, Henry Ker Dec 2020

An Early Nineteenth Centry Traveler In Pensacola, Henry Ker

Florida Historical Quarterly

One Henry Ker, evidently an American, traveled through part of the western United States during the years 1803 to 1810. Like many other travelers, he wrote a book embodying some of his experiences entitled Travels through the Western Interior of the United States. From the Year 1803 up to the Year 1810: with a particular Description of a great Part of Mexico or New-Spain. . . . (Elizabethtown, N. Y., Printed for the Author. 1816). The author, who was born in Boston, moved with his father to London at an early age and was placed in Westminster School and educated …


Slavery In East Florida, Wilbur H. Siebert Dec 2020

Slavery In East Florida, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

This article is in continuation of Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726-1776, which appeared in the QUARTERLY, July, 1931.


Letters Of James Innerarity, The War Of 1812, James Innerarity Dec 2020

Letters Of James Innerarity, The War Of 1812, James Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

These letters are in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie & Co. preserved by the family of John Innerarity, a partner of that firm, the publication of which will be continuous in the QUARTERLY. These are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, who has transcribed them.


The Story Of The Lafayette Lands In Florida, Kathryn T. Abbey Dec 2020

The Story Of The Lafayette Lands In Florida, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the various kinds of men who assisted in the achievement of American independence, there is one whose devotion to liberalism and whose generosity to a struggling and, at times, almost hopeless cause cannot be gainsaid. Neither time nor the debunking zeal of some modern historian has dimmed the role of LaFayette in the founding of this republic, and it is to the credit of the nation that the debt was at length generously repaid.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHQ Officers and Board of Directors


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 10, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


A Historical Sketch Of My Home Town, Dania, Lillian Jordan Dec 2020

A Historical Sketch Of My Home Town, Dania, Lillian Jordan

Florida Historical Quarterly

This essay won first prize in the last Bacheller-Florida Historical Society Essay Contest for Florida high school students. The next Contest will be held at Rollins College on February 19, next. It is open to students of the junior and senior classes of accredited Florida high schools. For information inquire of Professor A. J. Hanna, Rollins College, Winter Park.


The Forbes Purchase: A Letter From James Innerarity To William Simpson, 1804, James Innerarity Dec 2020

The Forbes Purchase: A Letter From James Innerarity To William Simpson, 1804, James Innerarity

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is in continuation of the series of documents, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie & Co. and its successor John Forbes & Co., preserved by the family of John Innerarity, last surviving partner of the latter firm, the publication of which was begun in a late issue of the QUARTERLY. They are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, of Washington, D. C., who has transcribed them. This series will be continued in the following issues.


Sir John Hawkins In Florida, Edgar Legare Pennington Dec 2020

Sir John Hawkins In Florida, Edgar Legare Pennington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The visit of Sir John Hawkins to the struggling and disheartened French colonists near the mouth of what is now the St. Johns River is one of the most interesting episodes of that age of gallantry and adventure. It illustrates extreme courtesy and generosity under circumstances when ruthlessness would have been expected ; thus we see why every school-boy instinctively admires the freebooting pirate. Besides, the consequences of that short stay were felt in a revitalized curiosity regarding the new world.


International Rivalry In The Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency Of Alexander Mcgillivray 1783-1789, Lawrence Kinnaird Dec 2020

International Rivalry In The Creek Country Part I, The Ascendency Of Alexander Mcgillivray 1783-1789, Lawrence Kinnaird

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Creek nation with its lands situated in regions claimed both by Spain and the United States occupied a strategic position at the close of the War of the American Revolution. Since no treaty existed between the two countries the question of boundaries was left entirely for future determination. The Spaniards desired to extend the limits of the Floridas as far northward as possible; while the Americans wished to establish the boundary near the Gulf as specified in the treaty with Great Britain.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHQ Officers and Board of Directors


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 10, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Documents Relating To Colonel Edward Nicholls And Captain George Woodbine In Pensacola, 1814, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Documents Relating To Colonel Edward Nicholls And Captain George Woodbine In Pensacola, 1814, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

These documents are a part of the series, survivals of the records of Panton, Leslie and Co. and its successor, John Forbes and Co., preserved by the family of John Innerarity, last surviving partner of the latter firm, the publication of which was begun in a late issue of the QUARTERLY. They are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Greenslade, of Washington, D. C., who has transcribed them. The series will be continued in the following issues.


The Archival Distribution Of Florida Manuscripts, James Alexander Robertson Dec 2020

The Archival Distribution Of Florida Manuscripts, James Alexander Robertson

Florida Historical Quarterly

This paper, read before the Conference of Historical Societies at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, 1929, is the result of a search for archival material relating to Florida which extended over a number of years. That painstaking research has given Dr. Robertson a knowledge of the subject possessed by no one else and is assurance that this product of it is of great and unique value to all who may dig into the sources of early Florida history.


United States Troops In Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, Part V, T. Frederick Davis Dec 2020

United States Troops In Spanish East Florida, 1812-13, Part V, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the preceding issues of the QUARTERLY, starting with July, 1930, we followed the career of a detachment of United States regulars during their occupancy of Spanish East Florida beginning March 18, 1812, as told by their commander, Col. Thomas A. Smith, in his official and semi-official correspondence, much of which has never appeared in print before. The last issue brought the story to the time when Col. Smith turned the command over to Maj. Lawrence Manning, of the 8th U.S. Infantry, and bade adieu to the little detachment that he had led into the Spanish province more than a …


Slavery And White Servitude In East Florida, 1726-1776, Wilbur H. Siebert Dec 2020

Slavery And White Servitude In East Florida, 1726-1776, Wilbur H. Siebert

Florida Historical Quarterly

For a limited period and to a limited extent negro slavery existed in the Florida peninsula under the early Spanish regime. From at least as early as 1726 the Spaniards welcomed fugitive slaves from Georgia and South Carolina. So also did the lower Creek Indians, who treated them well, admitted them to their free life, and intermarried with them. For the next dozen years the fugitives were sold in St. Augustine, although their liberation was ordered by a royal decree of October 29, 1733. When claimants or their agents came from the neighboring colonies to recover their slaves, they got …


Verso, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHQ Officers and Board of Directors


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 10, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Membership Roll Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Membership Roll Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Report Of The Treasurer, January 31, 1927, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Report Of The Treasurer, January 31, 1927, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Treasurer's Report for the Florida Historical Society


Report Of The Arthur T. Williams, President, To The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Report Of The Arthur T. Williams, President, To The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Presented in Orlando, FL, on February 17th, 1927


Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the 24rd annual FHS meeting, 1927


The Personality Of Pedro Menendez, Ruthjeanne Bellamy Dec 2020

The Personality Of Pedro Menendez, Ruthjeanne Bellamy

Florida Historical Quarterly

In connection with the annual meeting of the Society there were held the finals in an essay contest on certain subjects of Florida’s history open to all Florida high school students, for prizes offered by Mr. Irving Bacheller and the Society. Miss Bellamy, of the Orlando High School, won the first prize for girls with the essay above. The first prize for boys went to James Erwin of the St. Augustine High School, who wrote also on Menendez. Second prizes were won by Miss Florence Tyner, of the Sanford High School, who spoke on Ponce de Leon and Early Florida …


The Reverend James Seymour, S.P.G., Missionary In Florida, Edgar Legare Pennington Dec 2020

The Reverend James Seymour, S.P.G., Missionary In Florida, Edgar Legare Pennington

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the Floridas became English territory, in 1763, there was the characteristic effort to reproduce in the new province whatever the mother country deemed essential. In less than a year Anglican missionaries were on the ground; and we find a record of nine clergymen “licensed to the plantations by the Bishops of London from the year 1745 inclusive”.


St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, Part I, James Owen Knauss Dec 2020

St. Joseph, An Episode Of The Economic And Political History Of Florida, Part I, James Owen 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.


Verso, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FHQ Officers and Board of Directors


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 5, Number . Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes And Comments, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


New Books, E. Merton Coulter Dec 2020

New Books, E. Merton Coulter

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of The Advancing South. Stories of Progress and Reaction. By Edwin Mims.