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Donations And Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Donations And Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Donations to the library, new members, and contributors


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes notice of the annual meeting


The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The historical program of the quarterly meeting of the Jacksonville Historical Society on February 9, arranged by Mr. Richard P. Daniel, was featured by two papers written for the occasion.


"Tequesta 1949, Annual Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida", Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

"Tequesta 1949, Annual Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida", Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1949 issue of Tequesta, the annual of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, which appeared while the last number of this QUARTERLY was in press, is the ninth of the series; and, as usual, contains a number of interesting historical articles relating to that region. Most of the papers were read at the program meetings of the Association and at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society last year when we were guests of that organization. The publication of these papers, year by year, makes a permanent addition to the recorded history of South Florida; a history which, …


St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

St. Augustine, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In an article in the last issue of the QUARTERLY telling of several recently organized local and regional historical societies in Florida as evidence of the growth of interest in our State’s history, there were a few lines on St. Augustine.


A Florida Settler Of 1877: The Diary Of Erastus G. Hill, Erastus G. Hill Mar 2021

A Florida Settler Of 1877: The Diary Of Erastus G. Hill, Erastus G. Hill

Florida Historical Quarterly

The QUARTERLY is grateful to Mrs. L. H. Hill of Lawtey, Florida, for permission to publish this diary which has been preserved for so many years in her family, and to Mr. A. Z. Adkins, Jr. of Gainesville for bringing it to the attention of the QUARTERLY and securing that permission. Our readers, also, will thank them ; for here we have a firsthand account of why and how so many thousands of families moved to Florida in the early days.


Northern Plans For The Economic Invasion Of Florida, 1862-1865, Robert L. Clarke Mar 2021

Northern Plans For The Economic Invasion Of Florida, 1862-1865, Robert L. Clarke

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost with the beginning of the fratricidal conflict of 1861-1865 far-seeing politicians and interested economic groups from the North began an economic invasion of the South. First, a Confiscation Act made all property used in support of the rebellion subject to seizure by the federal government. Later in 1861, despite Abraham Lincoln’s questioning of its constitutionality, Congress passed a second Confiscation Act which made the property of all Confederate officials subject to immediate confiscation by Union officials.


An Archeologist At Fort Gadsden, John W. Griffin Mar 2021

An Archeologist At Fort Gadsden, John W. Griffin

Florida Historical Quarterly

While the search for documentary evidence and the writing of articles and monographs on the history of Florida finds continued and increasing interest, the locations in Florida at which historic events occurred often lie neglected and all but forgotten. Such was the case of Fort Gadsden, a monument to the War of 1812 and to Andrew Jackson’s military forays into Spanish Florida. Recently, however, the United States Forest Service became interested in preserving and marking this structure as a historic site, and asked for the cooperation of the Florida Park Service in undertaking the background study necessary in such a …


Filibustering With The “Dauntless”, Richard V. Rickenbach Mar 2021

Filibustering With The “Dauntless”, Richard V. Rickenbach

Florida Historical Quarterly

Through the indefatigable efforts of Jose A. Huau and Alphonso Fritot, Jacksonville was an active center of filibustering to Cuba in the years 1895-98. Huau was important for his local influence, and his store on the corner of Bay and Main streets served as the clearing house for negotiations of the filibusterers. It seems now that it would have been all but impossible for the revolutionaries to be successful had they not had the aid of Fritot, for he was the joint agent of all the railroads running into Jacksonville. 1 He had the power of being able to secure …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 28, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes notice of the annual meeting


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


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

The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from The Historical Association of Southern Florida


The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the Jacksonville Historical Society


Book Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of "Florida Anthropological Society Publications, Number One: Two Archeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida [by] Hale G. Smith. Published at the University of Florida, Gainesville, 1949. John W. Goggin, editor.”


Now Is The Time, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Now Is The Time, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Local histories are the foundation stones of State history. Florida, which is far behind its neighbors in the knowledge of its history, is beginning to catch up. A number of local and regional associations are organized, and some are collecting and preserving the historical material of their areas. Miami, Jacksonville, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach, the Manatee region, and others have collections. An important recent addition is the Tampa area with its Hillsborough County Historical Commission. There is a revival of historical effort in St. Augustine, the gem of Florida’s historic past, with the collection and work of the St. …


Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence, Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson Mar 2021

Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence, Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Negro Slavery In Florida, Part Ii, Edwin L. Williams, Jr. Mar 2021

Negro Slavery In Florida, Part Ii, Edwin L. Williams, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the plantation regime expanded in territorial Florida and the Negro population became more numerous it became necessary that the slave system should be supported by statutory law. The purpose of the law was primarily to control the slave through a strict regulation of the system, and only incidentally to give him protection from ill usage. In 1828 the Legislative Council laid the legal basis for future legislation concerning Negro slaves by the passage of an act which stated that “slaves shall be deemed, held, and taken as personal property for every purpose whatever." This act placed the Negro slave …


The National Farmers’ Alliance Convention Of 1890, And Its “Ocala Demands”, Samuel Proctor Mar 2021

The National Farmers’ Alliance Convention Of 1890, And Its “Ocala Demands”, Samuel Proctor

Florida Historical Quarterly

Probably there were none as surprised or as pleased as were Florida’s four delegates to the National Farmers’ Alliance Convention when it was decided that the 1890 meeting of the National Alliance Supreme Council would be held in Jacksonville. Politically a part of the “solid South”, and with a population of only a few thousand, it seemed scarcely possible that frontier Florida would be chosen, nor could it well play host to any national organization, even one as politically adolescent as was the National Farmers’ Alliance in 1889. However, Florida’s invitation was accepted by the convention which met in St. …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 28, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes new members, donations to the library, and contributors


Book Review, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of A Century of Medicine in Jacksonville and Duval County by Webster Merritt, M.D. (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1949. xii, 201 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $3.50).


Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence: Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson Mar 2021

Francis P. Fleming In The War For Southern Independence: Letters From The Front, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The first series of letters by Confederate soldier Frank Fleming appeared in the last issue of the QUARTERLY. The envelope of this letter is addressed to Frank’s aunt, Miss Matilda Seton.


Political Factions In Territorial Florida, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. Mar 2021

Political Factions In Territorial Florida, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the early days of the territorial period, politics in Florida were largely of a personal nature as certain men of wealth and education became the natural leaders of the political life on the frontier. When Florida became a United States territory there was nominally only one political party, and political lines nationally were in a state of flux. Consequently, while the settlers of Florida usually came with definite political ideas, they were not tied to a party nor did they bring readymade ideas of party with them.


Hernando De Miranda, Governor Of Florida 1575-1577, Ray E. Held Mar 2021

Hernando De Miranda, Governor Of Florida 1575-1577, Ray E. Held

Florida Historical Quarterly

Second in the list of governors of Spanish Florida stands the name of one Hernando de Miranda. An almost unknown figure, he was for two years King Philip II’s adelantado, captain-general, and governor for the royal provinces of Florida. Following the rule of the first governor, the famous and able commander, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Miranda’s brief administration (1575 to 1577) occurred at a time when Florida, having been made secure against the French, was settling down into the two centuries of the relatively obscure first Spanish colonial period. That Miranda was succeeded in turn by another capable governor, Pedro …


Negro Slavery In Florida, Edwin L. Williams, Jr. Mar 2021

Negro Slavery In Florida, Edwin L. Williams, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Negro slavery existed in Florida long before it became American territory and the Negro began to play his part in the drama of Florida history at a very early date. If we are to credit the narrative of Cabeca De-Vaca, as translated by Buckingham Smith, at least two Negroes accompanied the Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1528, though no mention is made as to whether they were slave or free. One of these Negroes was among the few survivors of this ill-fated expedition who finally reached Mexico. A few Negro slaves accompanied the great expedition of Hernando DeSoto when it …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 28, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Reports, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Reports, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes the membership report, treasurers report, and other minutes


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes the schedule for the annual meeting, gifts to the library, and members


No Home For The Society In Tallahassee, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

No Home For The Society In Tallahassee, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The governments of many states provide homes for and give other aid to their State historical societies. At the annual meeting of the Society in 1947 the question of asking for space in some State owned building in Tallahassee was discussed and a resolution was adopted requesting the Society’s Legislative Committee to draft such a bill and endeavor to secure its passage, but no agreement was to be made that the Society would accept the space that might be offered.