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Articles 1861 - 1890 of 2505
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Pioneer Florida: An Interpretation Of Spanish Laws And Land Titles, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: An Interpretation Of Spanish Laws And Land Titles, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Florida was acquired by the United States from Spain through the treaty of cession concluded and signed in 1819 and ratified in 1821, one of the foremost questions arising was that of the confirmation of land titles. For a decade there was a strange uncertainty with regard to property, titles and judicial decrees, which, according to a contemporary writer in the Florida Herald, were “scattered about as floating objects in the wide ocean of Law.” He goes on to say, “This confusion cannot be supposed to arise from any intention or design in the high contracting parties [the governments …
Tallahassee And St. Marks In 1841, A Letter Of John S. Tappan, John S. Tappan
Tallahassee And St. Marks In 1841, A Letter Of John S. Tappan, John S. Tappan
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
The Florida Banditti, 1783, Joseph B. Lockey
The Florida Banditti, 1783, Joseph B. Lockey
Florida Historical Quarterly
East Florida was ill at ease on receiving, in the spring of 1783, news of the retrocession of the province to Spain. The necessity of abandoning homes in a land to which government and people alike were attached, together with the uncertainties, vexations, and difficulties of finding new homes elsewhere presented to all a dark picture of the future. In the midst of these apprehensions some of the settlers at least were troubled by the depredations of a group of lawless men whom Governor Patrick Tonyn described as banditti.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 24, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
The Quarterly, Florida Historical Society
The Quarterly, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
As you have doubtless noticed, our Quarterly is growing again. Since the beginning of the war we have averaged only about two-thirds of our former number of pages. We hope the size can be increased steadily. The saving under our budget has resulted in a good balance, so we expect to begin publishing documents again, and there will be a few in each future number-for the right kind of documents hold a large and important part in the writing of history.
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Book Review, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of Florida During the Territorial Days, by Sidney Walter Martin. Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 1944 (308 p. $3.00).
The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Jacksonville Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
As was to be expected there has been less activity among the local historical societies of the State during the war. But interest is being revived, though it likely will not equal that of prewar years until the war is ended.
Notes On Seminole Negroes In The Bahamas, Kenneth W. Porter
Notes On Seminole Negroes In The Bahamas, Kenneth W. Porter
Florida Historical Quarterly
On telling Alan Lomax, folksong collector, of my interest in and research on Seminole Negroes he exclaimed “Do you know there are some in the Bahamas today?”
Early Settlers In British West Florida, Clinton N. Howard
Early Settlers In British West Florida, Clinton N. Howard
Florida Historical Quarterly
The land grant records of the British colony of West Florida comprise a fairly complete census of the population of the colony in the early years.
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’S Premature Proclamation, 1821, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’S Premature Proclamation, 1821, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
The treaty of “Amity, Settlement and Limits” by which Spain ceded the Floridas (East and West) to the United States, was concluded and signed on February 22, 1819, but ratifications were not exchanged until February 22, 1821 - both transactions coincidentally being on the anniversary of George Washington’s birth. On March 10, 1821, General Andrew Jackson was appointed to take over the Floridas from Spain, and assume their government pending their formal creation as a territory of the Union. The commission bestowed upon him the title: Governor of the Floridas, exercising all the powers and authorities heretofore exercised by the …
Florida's Population In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida's Population In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first census of the State of Florida was taken in the summer of 1845. The census takers were slow in making their returns, and data for only 17 of the 26 counties were submitted to the adjourned session of the General Assembly, which met in November. The census was actually taken, however, in every county except St. Lucia and Dade, a total of 66,381 inhabitants being reported.
The Last Spanish Census Of Pensacola, Duvon C. Corbitt
The Last Spanish Census Of Pensacola, Duvon C. Corbitt
Florida Historical Quarterly
Prior to 1812 the Spanish monarch did not see fit to grant Pensacola the right to organize as a municipality; consequently, the West Florida capital was governed up to that year by military commandants whose authority was untrammeled by elective officers. With the inauguration of the Constitution of 1812, however, it became necessary to allow the organization of municipal government there, since the charter in question provided such government for all towns and communities having one thousand or more free inhabitants, or whose special conditions necessitated local government. Therefore, Pensacola’s municipal government, consisting of an alcalde, or mayor, and a …
Florida In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida In 1845, Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
When the government of the State of Florida was organized in June 1845, the state contained a population of some 66,500. Although Florida has a total area of 58,560 square miles, 2 47 percent of the population was concentrated in the 7,333 square miles (only 12.5 percent of the state total) lying between the Apalachicola and Suwannee rivers, then known as Middle Florida. The remaining 53 percent was distributed fairly evenly between West and East Florida, 25 percent being in the former and 28 percent in the latter. But since West Florida -between the Perdido and Apalachicola rivershas an area …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 24, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents
Contents Of Volume Xxiv, Florida Historical Society
Contents Of Volume Xxiv, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 24
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Tequesta: Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society
Tequesta: Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The fourth issue of Tequesta, “The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida” appeared while the last number of our Quarterly was in press. This one was edited by Professor Leonard R. Muller, of the University of Miami, with an advisory board of Harold E. Briggs, David O. True, and H. Frank Williams.
The Bulow Plantation, 1821-1835, Ruth Danenhower Wilson
The Bulow Plantation, 1821-1835, Ruth Danenhower Wilson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the dense jungle growth of a hammock ten miles north of Ormond, are bare arches of coquina and great rectangular chimneys of another age towering above the live oaks and palmettos-all surrounded by the desolation of more than a century. This is what is left of Bulow Ville, one of the largest of the sixteen plantations, each working more than one hundred slaves, which were destroyed by the Indians early in 1835 in the section south and west of St. Augustine.
Pioneer Florida: The Pad-Guad At Pensacola, 1830, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: The Pad-Guad At Pensacola, 1830, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Any well-rounded history of a country or of a section must include an account of the habits, customs and pastimes of its people in each generation. For Florida, not much has been told of these during our pioneer period from 1821, when it became a possession of the United States, to its admission to statehood in 1845. The human side of life in that period was recorded mostly in the minds of the old inhabitants, and when that generation passed the records were gone too. Every bit of authentic information relating to this period such as diaries and contemporaneous letters, …
Contemporaneous Reactions To Statehood: State Government, Benjamin D. Wright
Contemporaneous Reactions To Statehood: State Government, Benjamin D. Wright
Florida Historical Quarterly
Including Florida a State, from the Florida Herald, St. Augustine; Public Meeting in Quincy from the Florida Sentinel, Tallahassee; Florida (verse), Ione; The State of Florida, from the Florida Sentinel, Tallahassee
Inaugural Address Of Governor Moseley, June 25, 1845, William Dunn Moseley
Inaugural Address Of Governor Moseley, June 25, 1845, William Dunn Moseley
Florida Historical Quarterly
I should do injustice to the best feelings of my heart were I not, on this occasion, to express a becoming sense of gratitude for the enviable and honorable distinction, so recently conferred upon me, in elevating me to the supreme Executive authority of the State-a distinction the more highly prized from the flattering circumstances under which it was conferred. An expression of public sentiment through the suffrages of freemen, for an office within their gift, for which it was my earnest personal desire not to be a candidate.
A New Letter Of James Monroe On The Cession Of Florida, Rembert W. Patrick
A New Letter Of James Monroe On The Cession Of Florida, Rembert W. Patrick
Florida Historical Quarterly
In all the records of the negotiations at Madrid in 1805 between the Spanish government and the envoys of the United States there is not the least intimation that Spain was willing to cede the Floridas to this country. Yet, in a hitherto unpublished letter of June 22, 1812, Secretary of State James Monroe states that she was willing to; and Monroe himself with Charles Pinckney, United States Minister to Spain, were the two men who would know the facts.
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 23, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
History And Archeology In Florida, John W. Griffin
History And Archeology In Florida, John W. Griffin
Florida Historical Quarterly
There was a time when archaeology was conceived of as the collection of relics and history was thought of as the study of names and dates. The two disciplines seemed far apart. Yet history and archaeology are very closely related. Both are concerned with “history” in the broader sense. Both study and seek to interpret unique events placed in time and space. The major difference lies in the techniques used. History gains most of its information through written documents, archaeology for the most part deals with times and groups which have no written records of their own, and is forced …
The Confederate Cabinet, Rembert W. Patrick
The Confederate Cabinet, Rembert W. Patrick
Florida Historical Quarterly
A review of Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. By Rembert W. Patrick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1944. 401 pp. $3.75.
Pioneer Florida: The First Railroads, T. Frederick Davis
Pioneer Florida: The First Railroads, T. Frederick Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
Practical operation of railroads in the United States began in 1827, when the Quincy (Mass.) Rail Road, three miles in length, started operation in April or May. This was followed immediately by the opening of a nine mile line at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Soon afterwards preparations were made for the construction of several other lines of railroad, the longest and most important of which was the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. Much publicity was given the B & O, resulting in an increasing shift of transportation interest from canals to railroads generally. By the end of 1834, before Florida's first railroad …
Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson
Luciano De Herrera, Spanish Spy In British St. Augustine, Katherine S. Lawson
Florida Historical Quarterly
When Governor Melchor Feliu closed the extensive and complicated operation of evacuating Spanish residents from St. Augustine on February 5, 1764, he reported that in order to provide for looking after certain properties of the king, and to dispose of many horses running in the woods, he had left seven soldiers and an interpreter there. One of these was a militiaman, Luciano de Herrera, whose family had long been resident in the colony.
The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd
The Flags Of The State Of Florida, Dorothy Dodd
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first flag of the State of Florida was flown for the first and, so far as is known, for the last time on June 25, 1845. The raising of the state and national banners, closing the ceremonies marking the inauguration of William D. Moseley as first governor of the State of Florida, on the east portico of the recently completed capitol, was accompanied by a twenty-eight-gun salute. The band then played "Yankee Doodle."