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The Patriot War, A Contemporaneous Letter, Belton A. Copp Dec 2020

The Patriot War, A Contemporaneous Letter, Belton A. Copp

Florida Historical Quarterly

This letter is one of a series on the same subject, the others of which have appeared ox will appear in the QUARTERLY. The original of this one is in the Bureau of Index and Archives, Department of State, Washington, D. C.


The Society's Relics - I. The Bell Of A Florida Spanish Mission, Emma Rochelle Williams Dec 2020

The Society's Relics - I. The Bell Of A Florida Spanish Mission, Emma Rochelle Williams

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the museum of the Florida Historical Society, at 7 West Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, there is an old bell of Spanish origin which is one of the very few existing relics of the missions established by the Roman Catholic church in colonial days throughout the territory now embraced by the State of Florida. The bell was cast of an alloy of tin, copper, and silver; it is eighteen inches in height, measures four feet around the base, and bears the inscription SANTA MARIA ORA PROBONIS, with the date ANO 1758, and a raised cross composed of twenty-four eight-pointed stars. It …


Notes On Reconstrucion In Tallahassee And Leon County, 1866-1876, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes On Reconstrucion In Tallahassee And Leon County, 1866-1876, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The soldiers who came back in 1865 found peace and security at least, and for a time there was business activity in Tallahassee. The nightmare of Reconstruction did not begin at once - not until the United States Army took the reins of government, and that other army of carpet-baggers and camp-followers came from everywhere like buzzards collecting.


Fort King, Frederick Cubberly Dec 2020

Fort King, Frederick Cubberly

Florida Historical Quarterly

Unmarked and almost forgotten the site of Fort King, one of the historic spots of Florida, is to be found three miles east of Ocala. Established about one hundred years ago, the place was for many years the center of affairs concerning the Florida Indians. For many months during the year 1835 news from Fort King was anxiously awaited in Washington by the Administration and to this point the President of the United States and his Secretary of War dispatched many messages, or talks as the Indians described them; and from Fort King came back the reports from the Indian …


The Dade Massacre, Albert Hubbard Roberts Dec 2020

The Dade Massacre, Albert Hubbard Roberts

Florida Historical Quarterly

One who would write again of the Dade massacre, ninety-one years after its occurrence, must forego the expectation of discovering any great wealth of original data, and content himself in the main with the assembling of facts already published, and the elimination of more or less doubtful detail that has crept into former narratives, in an effort to bring into stronger relief a more or less neglected story of the American soldier’s courage and fidelity unto death. Every school-child has been taught the story of the Alamo, a tragedy enacted a scarce two months after the massacre of the Dade …


Map Of Florida, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Map Of Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Henry Perrine, Pioneer Botanist And Horticulturist, Sarah R. W. Palmer Dec 2020

Henry Perrine, Pioneer Botanist And Horticulturist, Sarah R. W. Palmer

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the July issue last, there appeared a hitherto unpublished diary, of Mrs. Hester Perrine Walker, a survivor of the Indian massacre at Indian Key, on August 7, 1840, in which her father, the noted pioneer and botanist, lost his life. This volume of reminiscences, so intensely interesting in its depiction of the daily vicissitudes of pioneer life, graphically climaxed by the tragic occurrence of the massacre, has aroused among its readers a desire for further knowledge of the lifework of this pioneer horticulturist of Florida. Mrs. Sarah R. W. Palmer, of Miami, a grand-daughter of Dr. Perrine, tells of …


The Second Spanish-American War, A. H. Phinney Dec 2020

The Second Spanish-American War, A. H. Phinney

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the January number last there appeared an article by A. H. Phinney relating to the attempted seizure of St. Augustine in the year 1812 by United States troops and gunboats. The article was entitled THE FIRST SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. The following paper is a resume by the same author of an analogous incident in Florida history - the raid into Florida in the year 1818 by General Andrew Jackson.


Francis Eppes (1801-1881), Pioneer Of Florida, Nicholas Ware Eppes Dec 2020

Francis Eppes (1801-1881), Pioneer Of Florida, Nicholas Ware Eppes

Florida Historical Quarterly

These letters to John Wayles Eppes and to Francis Eppes, all in Thomas Jefferson’s own hand, are in the possession of their descendants.


John Quincy Adams And Florida, Frederick Cubberly Dec 2020

John Quincy Adams And Florida, Frederick Cubberly

Florida Historical Quarterly

It has been said that the defiant patriotism of John Quincy Adams secured to the United States possession of Florida. It settled, after years of controversy, the long standing differences between Spain and this country. The student of history who takes the trouble to search for details of the many transactions and negotiations that resulted in the Florida provinces coming under the American flag will find that the skillful diplomacy of Adams resulted in settling for all time the sovereignty of Spain on the North American Continent.


Address Of John C. Mcgehee Before The Southern Rights Association Of Madison County, June 7, 1851, John C. Mcgehee Dec 2020

Address Of John C. Mcgehee Before The Southern Rights Association Of Madison County, June 7, 1851, John C. Mcgehee

Florida Historical Quarterly

The high historical importance of this address lies in that ten years later John C. McGehee was elected (by a vote of five to one over several worthy opponents) president of the convention of the people of Florida, convened January 3, 1861, which passed the ordinance of secession. At such a time of stress and strong feeling it would seem that a man must be elected to that position at least as much because of his known opinions and long-held beliefs as for his ability and all other reasons.


Portrait Of John C. Mcgehee, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Portrait Of John C. Mcgehee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Letters Relating To Macgregor's Attempted Conquest Of East Florida, 1817, J. Skinner Dec 2020

Letters Relating To Macgregor's Attempted Conquest Of East Florida, 1817, J. Skinner

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


A Letter Of G. I. F. Clarke's Relating To Port St. Joseph, East Florida, George I. F. Clarke Dec 2020

A Letter Of G. I. F. Clarke's Relating To Port St. Joseph, East Florida, George I. F. Clarke

Florida Historical Quarterly

From the original in Bureau of Index and Archives, Department of State. Washington, D. C. Other letters of Clarke’s, also relating to the disturbances in East Florida, 1811-1818, were published in the QUARTERLY in July and in October, 1925; and still others, of which the originals are in the collection of the Society, will appear in future issues.


Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History, A. J. Hanna Dec 2020

Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History, A. J. Hanna

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida’s high school students are developing a lively interest in the Irving Bacheller Essay Contest, one of whose objects is to stimulate original research in the history of this state. Realizing the importance of such a movement, the Florida Historical Society has approved this plan and has helped to make it a success.


Massacre At Indian Key, August 7, 1840 And The Death Of Doctor Henry Perrine, Hester Perrine Walker Dec 2020

Massacre At Indian Key, August 7, 1840 And The Death Of Doctor Henry Perrine, Hester Perrine Walker

Florida Historical Quarterly

While at Campeachy, (1827-1838), where he served as United States consul, Dr. Henry Perrine, a native of New York City and a physician and botanist, determined to devote the remainder of his life to introducing and endeavoring to acclimatize useful tropical plants in semi-tropical Florida. He studied the matter and made collections of plants and seeds. The United States Congress, by an act approved July 7, 1898, made a conditional grant to Dr. Perrine and his associates of a township of land in South Florida, to be selected by him; the Senate Committee on Agriculture having reported “. . . …


The Growth Of Florida's Election Laws, James Owen Knauss Dec 2020

The Growth Of Florida's Election Laws, James Owen Knauss

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the neglected phases of American history is the development of election laws in the different states. Several monographs have been written showing the evolution and progress of certain reforms, such as the introduction of the Australian ballot, in the country as a whole, but these are usually not explicit and often not reliable regarding the subject in individual states. Articles and monographs on elections in each state are needed. It is entirely true that to obtain an accurate view of this subject the final monograph must contain a survey of the record of development in all states, but …


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 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Report Of The Treasurer, January 31, 1926, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Report Of The Treasurer, January 31, 1926, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Treasurer's Report for the Florida Historical Society


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

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

Florida Historical Quarterly

Presented in St. Petersburg, FL, on February 17th, 1926


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 23rd annual FHS meeting, 1926


Old Tiger Tail Dead, Florida Historical Society Dec 2020

Old Tiger Tail Dead, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

From Tallahassee Floridian, October 25, printed from Key of the Gulf (Key West?).