Free shipping media mail, 47 pages, index 5 pages, Peopling the "pine barrens or sandy desarts' became a critical need of Britain after its acquisition of the two Florida provinces at the end of the French and Indian War. View More...
The information about the delegates is arranged as follows: 1. Raw biographical data, arranged in the same fashion for every delegate. This will allow exhibit organizers and text writers the opportunity to make comparisons about the fifty-six delegates. 2. A biographical essay, which utilizes the information from (1) in an essay about each delegate. The essays are of different lengths and of different types, depending upon the information available (and its trustworthiness) about the delegate in question. 3. A research comment and the notes for (1) and (2), above. The comment will afford exhib... View More...
National Genealogical Society's Research in the states series had its genesis in the NGS Quarterly with the publication of "Master Plan for North Carolina Research" in 1987. The Quarterly continued to publish state guides and NGS later issued many of them as special publications. The 2008 releases include both revised editions of earlier guides and some new states. Additional states will be added to the series on an ongoing basis. In keeping with today's electronic age, they will all be electronic publications. View More...
Spain was unhappy and protested the 1803 purchase treaty of Louisiana. Carlos Martinez de Irujo, the Marques de Casa Irujo, protested that the purchase was a violation of the terms under which Spain had retroceded Louisiana to France. This all led to the preparation and collection of a number of documents pertaining to the history and limits of Florida and Louisiana to clearly prove that West Florida could not possibly have been included in the Louisiana Purchase. Since John Forbes had lived in Spanish West Florida, Casa Irujo requested a description of Florida from him. Signed by the autho... View More...
The first volume of the Local History Series of the Kellersberger Fund of South Brevard Historical Society; a personal narrative of the lives of Julia Lake Kellersberger and her husband. 60 pages. View More...
Information on this state is available from many other sources.Histories and geographies abound; there are place-name books, guidebooks and biographical references; many excellent atlases provide map detail; government registers contain in-depth coverage of the political organization. It is the existence of so many varied sources of information that makes a systematic, encyclopedic reference necessary - a single source for the most useful information about Florida. A secondary purpose of this volume is to play a part in the national reference on all of the states, a systematic approach to refe... View More...
This hefty publication contains Florida land claims submitted to the United States Government in 1825 for:
1. Gratuitous Concessions: Grants made upon condition that the grantee would clear and cultivate a portion of land within three years
2. Sales: Lands in Florida sold at auction by the Spanish Royal Treasury on November 22, 1806
3. Cases of Compromise: Claims made on the contention that individuals had occupied lands for more than ten years and were permitted to obtain titles.
Each entree contains the Full-Text of each claim - usually written by the claimant, his agent, or an i... View More...
We want to state at the outset that this book is concerned primarily with the Spanish censuses of Pensacola. It is concerned only secondarily with the history of Pensacola during the years 1791 to 1821 and then only with what we chose to call the "social" history. Those interested in the overall political and diplomatic history of Pensacola are referred to the introduction to the bibliography. In addition to the brief account of Pensacola's social history, which follows later in this general introduction, selected aspects of other historical appendices where they would be most appropriate. 198... View More...
