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New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, 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.


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.


Letter Of Colonel James Gadsden On The Seminole Council, James Gadsden Mar 2021

Letter Of Colonel James Gadsden On The Seminole Council, James Gadsden

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Seminole Council, October 23-25, 1834, T. Frederick Davis Mar 2021

The Seminole Council, October 23-25, 1834, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

The territory embraced within the state of Florida was not acquired by the United States through direct purchase from Spain. The treaty ceding this territory was drawn around a claim clause of this country and its citizens against the Spanish government for alleged damages for various reasons. The United States government agreed to cancel its claims and assume the payment of those of its citizens to an amount not exceeding five million dollars, in consideration of which Spain ceded Florida. The transfer of government was accomplished in July, 1821; whereupon General Andrew Jackson became provisional governor.


Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Ii, Kathryn T. Abbey Mar 2021

Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part Ii, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

The second instalment of documents relating to the plantations of El Destino and Chemonie contains records of Chemonie during its first year as part of the Jones property. The estate was located some six miles north of El Destino in Leon County, and was purchased by Mary Savage Nuttall a few months before her marriage to George Noble Jones. The object of the purchase was to give employment to some eighty negroes whom the future Mrs. Jones had inherited from the estate of an uncle, William Savage. It is probable that not all of the group were placed on Chemonie, …


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 7, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Donations, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Donations, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910, Part Ii, Samuel Pasco Mar 2021

Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910, Part Ii, Samuel Pasco

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Seminole War. - The treaty negotiated with the Florida tribes of Indians at Moultrie Creek, September 18, 1823, provided for their removal to a location on the peninsula designated in the treaty, but by an additional article some of the principal chiefs and their connections were allowed to remain in Middle Florida upon certain bodies of land granted to them for their use and occupation. The main body of the Indians removed to the district assigned to them during the winter of 1824. They had left their old homes and hunting grounds with great reluctance. They were not satisfied …


St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine; The Franciscans In Florida, Charles H. Mohr O.S.B. Mar 2021

St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine; The Franciscans In Florida, Charles H. Mohr O.S.B.

Florida Historical Quarterly

St. Francis Barracks, once the home of the sons of St. Francis, is perhaps the only religious edifice ever taken and used continuously by the United States for military purposes. This came about through the treaty made with Spain and not by an act of hostility against the Catholic Church. The Franciscans will probably never again take possession of their ancient home. Surely, though, some day-and may it be soon-there will be some place in Florida to which they will be called to renew the work so successfully and efficiently performed by their saintly and courageous predecessors.


Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I, Kathryn A. Abbey Mar 2021

Documents Relating To El Destino And Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I, Kathryn A. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

This series of plantation documents will be continued through several numbers of the QUARTERLY. Taken singly, some of these may seem to be of slight interest and of no value to the recording of Florida’s history; but they have been selected to give a view of plantation life and conditions and practice from as many different directions as possible, and it is believed that together they picture at least an outline of what a typical Middle Florida plantation was before the War. Portions of the journals of the overseers, their letters to the owner, and extracts literatim from the other …


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 7, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Donations, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Donations, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Notes And Comment, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Tallahassee Fire Of 1843, F. Eppes Mar 2021

The Tallahassee Fire Of 1843, F. Eppes

Florida Historical Quarterly

An account of this conflagration, which destroyed the greater part of the town as first built, appeared in the Quarterly in the issue for July, 1924. These additional documents and notes are taken from contemporaneous issues of the Floridian and the Sentinel, Tallahassee newspapers.


Jean Ribaut, His Personality And Achievements (Prize Essay), Kenneth Curry Mar 2021

Jean Ribaut, His Personality And Achievements (Prize Essay), Kenneth Curry

Florida Historical Quarterly

This essay was awarded a first prize in the Irving Bacheller-Florida Historical Society contest for Florida high-school students, held at Rollins College under the direction of Alfred J. Hanna, February twenty-first last. Mr. Curry, its author, is a student in Orlando High School. The other prize-winners and the subjects of their essays were: Ruthjeanne Bellamy, also of Orlando High School, who wrote on Pirates of the Florida Coast; Nellie Kennedy, of Hernando High School, Brooksville, who wrote on the same subject; and Chester R. Yates, of Plant City High School, on Territorial and Early Statehood of Florida.


Music Of The Seminole Indians, Minnie Moore-Willson Mar 2021

Music Of The Seminole Indians, Minnie Moore-Willson

Florida Historical Quarterly

In her address to the last annual meeting of the Historical Society, published in the July number of the QUARTERLY, Mrs. Minnie Moore-Willson told of the music of the Seminoles, and mention was made there of the song and the other melodies which appear on the, following pages.


Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910. Part I, Samuel Pasco Mar 2021

Jefferson County, Florida, 1827-1910. Part I, Samuel Pasco

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was in January, 1827, that Jefferson County was formed out of Leon, with its western boundary nearly the same as at present and the eastern boundary remaining at the Suwannee until December, 1827, when Madison County was established. Thus Jefferson County became a separate territorial division and governmental organization, after being at times a part of the provinces of East Florida and West Florida, and of the counties of Escambia, Jackson, Gadsden, and Leon. It extends from the Georgia line to the Gulf, a distance of about forty miles, and at the base line is about twenty miles wide. …


Samuel Pasco (1834-1917), Samuel Pasco Mar 2021

Samuel Pasco (1834-1917), Samuel Pasco

Florida Historical Quarterly

The accompanying history of Jefferson County, Florida, was prepared by Senator Pasco at the time of the dedication of the court house at Monticello in 1910, and was in part used by him in an address on that occasion. As first written the history of this region was traced from the earliest times to 1910; but because much relating to the period prior to the establishment of the county in 1827 has appeared in other articles in the QUARTERLY the narrative will begin with that year. The entire manuscript has been given to and may be seen in the collections …


Letters From The Public Record Office, London, James Grant Mar 2021

Letters From The Public Record Office, London, James Grant

Florida Historical Quarterly

Governor Grant’s Letter to Lachlan MacLeane Esqr. in answer to an Official Letter wrote by order of the Earl of Shelburne, concerning Denys Rolle Esqr.


Denys Rolle. And Rollestown, A Pioneer For Utopia, Carita Doggett Corse Mar 2021

Denys Rolle. And Rollestown, A Pioneer For Utopia, Carita Doggett Corse

Florida Historical Quarterly

This account of Denys Rolle and his attempt at colonization in Florida is based on forty-three contemporaneous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, London,- letters and reports of Governors Grant and Tonyn to the Lords of Trade and Plantations,. to the Earl of Shelburne and to Lord Hillsborough; memorials of Rolle, and his letters to the governor and the secretaries; Acts of the Privy Council; private letters; etc. Copies of these papers were secured from London by Mrs. Corse and given to the library of the Florida Historical Society where they may be seen; hence it is considered unnecessary …


Verso, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Verso, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Lists the Officers and Board of Directors for the Florida Historical Society, as well as membership fees.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 7, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


New Members, Florida Historical Society Mar 2021

New Members, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1785, Kathryn T. Abbey Mar 2021

Book Review: The Spanish-American Frontier, 1783-1785, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of The Spanish-American Frontier: 1783-1795, By Arthur Preston Whitaker. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1927. III+245 pp. Maps and Index.)