Florida--History--English colony, 1763-1784
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
British East, West and Territorial Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi Miscellaneous documents, letters, etc.
Collection — Box 138
Identifier: MSS 0-33
Scope and Contents
Documents in manuscript and three printed forms filled out in manuscript originating in British East and West Florida, Territorial Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi, dating from 1773 to 1868.
Included in this collection are materials related to territorial Florida, William Garesche, Hermitage, Tennessee, silk and silkworms, biographical materials about Andrew Jackson, British West Florida, John Stephenson, Robert Farmar Esq. and his estate, Edmund Rush Wegg, Rev. William Gordon of Mobile, King George III, Peter Chester (Governor of British West Florida), British East Florida, debt, court orders, William Drayton (Chief Justice for British East...
Dates:
Created: 1773-1868
Photocopies of British Documents, East Florida
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0-31
Scope and Contents
Photocopies from the Library of Congress of a manuscript collection of British East Florida documents, 1764.
Dates:
Other: 1764-1768; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/1958
Photostat of minutes taken for General McGillivray respecting the Creeks
Collection — Box 138
Identifier: MSS 0-34
Scope and Contents
An ethnographical sketch of the Creek Indians in West Florida. There are historical reports that General McGillivray, the famous chief of the Creeks, attended an Indian congress at Pensacola where a treaty was signed with the Creeks, and it could be that this document was written at that or some other Indian congress held at Pensacola between 1789-1793.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1790
