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This page lists the choice of readings for the Archives Assignment for students taking Prof. Jack Davis's AMH 3421 Florida History course (Fall 2007). Besides your course texts, there are two other general resources that you may want to use: The New History of Florida, a collection of essays by leading scholars who review the historical literature of each period, and The Florida Handbook, which contains both a historical overview of Florida and an annotated timeline of important events. The library has multiple copies of these books. Books and articles pertaining to the specific subjects noted below (the Apalachee Indians, Jonathan Dickinson's shipwreck, the Floridas as British colonies, the American Revolution in Florida, and the Civil War in Florida) can be found in the library catalog. I will be happy to assist you with your archives assignment and with other research or reading.
James Cusick, Curator
P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History
Department of Special and Area Studies Collections
George A. Smathers Library (East), Second Floor
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32611
jgcusick@ufl.edu
352 273-2778
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(1) an account of the ball game among the Apalachee Indians (1676) [English translation from the original Spanish]; John H. Hann, Apalachee, the land between the rivers, University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, 1988, pp. 331-353
(2) a facsimile of a portion of God's Protecting Providence describing the shipwreck of the Reformation on the Florida coast in 1696, as described by Jonathan Dickinson, a survivor; excerpt from the fifth edition, London, 1772, pp. 1-33; see also modern reprint, Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, ed. by Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews, with a foreword by Leonard W. Lebaree, Florida Classics Library, Port Salerno, Fla., 1985, pp. 1-25
(3) facsimiles of London newspapers containing information on British East and West Florida: The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1765, pp. 75-77, The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1767, pp. 21-22, The Columbian Magazine, August 1788, pp. 440-443, and The Columbian Magazine, December 1788, pp. 683-688.
(4) a typed copy of the handwritten memoir of Mary Port Macklin, an English Loyalist, covering her experiences during the American Revolution; based on "The Memoir of Mary (Port) Macklin," edited and annotated by Daniel L. Schafer, pp. 106-117 in El Escribano, the St. Augustine Journal of History, 2004
(5) an original copy of the New York Tribune, "The Civil War in America," Monday, June 24, 1861, p.8, by William Howard Russell, Special Correspondent to The London Times, concerning the Union and Confederate batteries at Pensacola; together with a map of Pensacola from The New York Herald, December 12, 1861, and facsimiles of two letters (April 22 and 28, 1861) written by a Confederate soldier stationed at Pensacola.
You will choose one of these topics for your assignment, read the source material, and then write up your paper according to Prof. Davis's instructions. Copies of these readings are available in the Special Collections Reading Room, Second Floor, George A. Smathers Library (EAST), during the room's normal hours of operations (Mon. to Thurs., 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). All of these items, with the exception of the original newspapers, may be photocopied.
| FLORIDA HISTORY TIMELINE | AMERICAN HISTORY TIMELINE | ||||
| 1492 | Columbus sails into the Caribbean | 1492 | Columbus sails into the Caribbean | ||
| 1497 | John Cabot explores the coast of North America | ||||
| 1513 | Juan Ponce de León explores the Florida coast | ||||
| 1524 | Giovanni da Verrazano explores the coast of North America | ||||
| 1528 | Pánfilo de Narváez leads an expedition through Florida | ||||
| 1539 | Hernando de Soto expedition lands at Tampa Bay | ||||
| 1559 | Tristán de Luna tries unsuccessfully to start a colony at Pensacola Bay | ||||
| 1562 | Jean Ribault and French settlers land in northeast Florida | ||||
| 1564 | French settlers build Ft. Caroline on the St. Johns River | ||||
| 1565 | Pedro Menéndez de Avilés expels French and establishes St. Augustine | ||||
| 1566 | Menéndez names Santa Elena (South Carolina) as Florida's capital | ||||
| 1577 | Spaniards begin to conquer Florida, allying or fighting with the Indians | ||||
| 1585 | English colonists try to settle at Roanoke River (Virginia) | ||||
| 1586 | Sir Francis Drake attacks and burns St. Augustine and Santa Elena | 1586 | Sir Francis Drake visits Roanoke & returns settlers to England | ||
| 1587 | Spanish settlers abandon Santa Elena and leave the Carolina coast | 1587 | Sir Walter Raleigh sends colonists to reestablish Roanoke | ||
| 1588 | Franciscans start a mission for Indians at Cumberland Island (Georgia) | ||||
| 1590 | New colonists find Roanoke empty & go back to England | ||||
| 1597 | The Guale Indians of coastal Georgia rebel against Spanish rule | ||||
| 1607 | Franciscans establish more missions among the Timucua Indians | 1607 | Capt. John Smith establishes Jamestown | ||
| 1620 | The Pilgrims establish Plymouth colony | ||||
| 1623 | Franciscans reestablish missions among the Guale Indians | ||||
| 1626 | The Dutch establish New Amsterdam | ||||
| 1630 | Boston is founded | ||||
| 1633 | For the first time, the Franciscans try to build missions in Apalachee | ||||
| 1634 | Colony of Maryland is established | ||||
| 1635 | There are at least 41 missions among the Indians of north Florida | ||||
| 1647 | War erupts in Apalachee between Christian and non Christian Indians | ||||
| 1650 | Missions in Spanish Florida reach their greatest extent | 1650 | Slavery becomes legal in Virginia | ||
| 1654 | Smallpox and plague kill hundreds of Indians in Florida | ||||
| 1656 | Unable to meet Spanish demands for their labor, Timcuan Indians revolt | ||||
| 1658 | The Crown arrests Gov. Diego de Rebolledo because of the revolt | ||||
| 1670 | Treaty of Madrid defines Spain's colonial claims in the New World | 1670 | Charleston, South Carolina, is founded | ||
| 1672 | Settlers at St. Augustine begin building the Castillo de San Marcos | ||||
| 1676 | King Philip's War (Indian War) ends in New England | ||||
| 1682 | La Salle claims the Mississippi River for France | ||||
| 1683 | Gov. Juan Marquéz Cabrera uses former slaves as local militia soldiers | ||||
| 1687 | Eight men, two women, and a child flee from slavery in Carolina | 1687 | Slaves begin to flee to Florida to escape their English masters | ||
| 1692 | Salem witchcraft trials | ||||
| 1693 | King Charles II declares that the escaped slaves are free | ||||
| 1698 | Spaniards establish Pensacola to block French from Gulf coast | ||||
| 1699 | French found settlement at Mobile Bay just west of Pensacola | ||||
| 1700 | Fears grow in Carolina that slaves, now numerous, will revolt | ||||
| 1702 | James Moore of South Carolina leads attack that burns St. Augustine | 1702 | Settlers in Carolina, with Indian allies, invade Florida | ||
| 1704 | James Moore and Indian allies attack and destroy the Spanish missions | 1704 | Second attack on settlements in Spanish Florida | ||
| 1711 | 401 people in camps near St. Augustine are all that is left of the missions | 1711 | Colonists in Carolina put down a slave revolt | ||
| 1712 | Colonists in New York put down a slave revolt | ||||
| 1714 | Colonists in Carolina put down a second slave revolt | ||||
| 1715 | Escaped slaves join Yamasee Indian War in Carolina colony | ||||
| 1724 | Ten more runaway slaves reach St. Augustine | ||||
| 1733 | James Oglethorpe founds Ft. Frederica, Georgia | ||||
| 1738 | Spaniards establish Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose | 1738 | Twenty three slaves flee Carolina and go to Mose | ||
| 1739 | Angolan slaves at Stono, S.C. revolt and head for Florida | ||||
| 1740 | James Oglethorpe leads invasion of Spanish Florida | 1740 | English settlers destroy Mose & lay siege to St. Augustine | ||
| 1741 | Colonists in New York put down another slave revolt | ||||
| 1754 | Beginning of French & Indian War | 1754 | Beginning of French & Indian War | ||
| 1763 | End of War. Spains gives up Florida to England | 1763 | End of War. French must give Louisiana to Spain | ||
| 1764 | England divides Florida into two colonies, East and West | 1764 | Entire coast, from Canada to Florida, is English | ||
| 1765 | John Bartram, Royal Botanist in America, explores East Florida | ||||
| 1767 | Dr. Andrew Turnbull of Scotland founds the New Smyrna colony | ||||
| 1770 | British troops fire on protesters in Boston, killing five | ||||
| 1773 | William Bartram, John's son, returns to Florida to explore | 1773 | American patriots stage the Boston Tea Party | ||
| 1774 | The First Continental Congress meets | ||||
| 1775 | The American Revolution starts at Lexington & Concord | ||||
| 1776 | Congress declares the colonies independent | ||||
| 1777 | Indentured servants at New Smyrna rebel and go to St. Augustine | ||||
| 1778 | France and Spain agree to aid rebelling Americans | ||||
| 1779 | Settlers loyal to England flee into East Florida from Carolina & Georgia | ||||
| 1780 | Spanish forces from Louisiana capture Mobile from the English | ||||
| 1781 | Bernardo de Gálvez captures Pensacola from the English by siege | 1781 | American and French forces capture Yorktown from the English | ||
| 1783 | England gives East and West Florida back to Spain | 1783 | Thirteen English colonies become independent as United States | ||
| 1790 | Spain terminates its policy of freeing U.S. slaves who reach Florida | ||||
| 1791 | First printing of William Bartram's "Travels" appears | ||||
| 1794 | Agents from revolutionary France assist plans for a revolt in Florida | 1794 | Farmers in Penn. rebel against liquor tax (Whiskey Rebellion) | ||
| 1795 | Spanish forces suppress a revolt by American settlers living in Florida | 1795 | Treaty of San Lorenzo resolves some U.S. disputes with Spain | ||
| 1797 | France and U.S. confront one another in a naval war | ||||
| 1803 | Spain cedes the colony of Louisiana back to France | 1803 | France, over Spanish protests, sells Louisiana to U.S. | ||
| 1808 | Slave traders begin to use Spanish Florida as a base of operations | 1808 | England and U.S. ban the African slave trade in their territories | ||
| 1810 | American settlers in Baton Rouge, West Florida, rebel against Spain | 1810 | President Madison orders U.S. troops to occupy Baton Rouge | ||
| 1812 | [March 18] U.S. troops occupy East Florida, vowing to help local rebels | 1812 | [June 18] U.S. declares war on England | ||
| 1813 | After a year-long occupation, U.S. troops evacuate East Florida | 1813 | Creek War breaks out in Georgia and Mississippi Territory | ||
| 1814 | Andrew Jackson drives British Navy away from Pensacola, W. Florida | 1814 | British forces burn Washington, D.C. but retreat from Baltimore | ||
| 1815 | Andrew Jackson repels the British invasion of New Orleans | ||||
| 1816 | Escaped slaves congregate at a fort on the Apalachicola River | 1816 | U.S. Army attacks and destroys the "Negro Fort" in Florida | ||
| 1817 | Gregor McGregor seizes Amelia Island, declares it independent of Spain | 1817 | The First Seminole War begins in Florida | ||
| 1818 | American forces occupy Amelia Island for the United States | ||||
| 1819 | Spain agrees to give East and West Florida to the U.S. | ||||
| 1821 | Floridas officially transferred to the United States | ||||
| 1823 | President James Monroe first enuciates the "Monroe Doctrine" | ||||