He Came Of A Valiant Race

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...leaving Fort Peyton on the 7th inst., and proceeding south....

Fort Peyton (Florida) LOC 1839 Map

...a large Seminole villae, near Mosquito Inlet, was reached, and, after surrounding it, at dawn of day on the 10th the dragoons, under McNeil and May, charged the enemy... .  Our loss was the gallant McNeil, who received a mortal wound while leading his men.  This officer--one of the youngest in service--was deeply regretted, both on account of personal and professional worth; he came of a valiant race--son of General John McNeil, late of the army, and grandson of General Benjamin Pierce,* of New Hampshire, a hero of the Revolution.

*Father of McNeil's mother, Elizabeth Andrews Pierce McNeil, and President Franklin Pierce

 

Marching In The Seminole Wars

 Marching from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; near Shawneetown, Illinois; Kentucky, Tennessee; Georgia and Florida:

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Fort Dade In Pasco County

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00027829/00150/11j

Fort Dade in Pasco County, Florida; Fort Dade Capitulation

Volusia, On The St. John's

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns:

At Dade's Battle

Rural Florida Scene

Indian Life in Florida  Narrative of the early days and remembrances of Oceola Nikkanochee

Cape Canaveral

Source (1776)

"To return to our topographical account;--along this southern lagoon which extends itself for about forty miles to Cape Cannaveral...we find several settlements of good note among which that of Captain Rogers is the most meridional habitation on the British continent. At Cape Cannaveral is some good plantable land and here is the southern head of this lagoon... ."

The Case Of The Inhabitants Of E. Florida

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Page 6

Lieutenant-Colonel Brown was mentioned on Page 4.

Notices of Florida and the Campaigns

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns....:

This treaty was signed Col. James Gadsden on the part of the United States, and by fifteen chiefs and head men from the vagabond Seminole nation. In a letter from Col. James Gadsden...he says I feel assured that they (Ecouchatti Micco and Mulatto King) will ultimately negotiate under the last stipulations of their compact relinquishing their lands and coming in as parties to the treaty of Payne's landing. There can be no difficulty on this subject, for they are a component part of the Seminole Nation, were parties to the treaty of Camp Moultrie... .

Legacy Of The American Revolution

The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British ...:

Also see: Thomas Brown in a Hornet's Nest and The King's Rangers Colonel Brown.

Quin Hieronymus In The Military

Sixty years in a school-room....,  By Julia Ann Tevis...:

Of all duties, the hardest is to forget a great sorrow. The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. It was as the friend and companion of this brother [Quin] (who died in Florida on military duty) on one of his short visits home, in 1817, that I first saw General Sam Houston.

Military Park In Pensacola, Florida

Military record of Quin B. Hieronymus (Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line].):

#1217.  Hieronymus, Quin B., 2nd Lt., 4th Inf., appt. Feb. 19/18

Lt. Hieronymus served at Pensacola, Barrancas, Montpelier; June and July 1820, absent having tendered his resignation; died August 17, 1820

Advanced Across St. Mary's River

"...when a regular siege was planned in Georgia...".  "...the then Rebels having advanced across St. Mary's river, were beat back, and frustrated in their designs, chiefly by the spirited exertions of the Militia embodied by Governour Tonyn, for the defence of East-Florida, and paid by Government, under the conduct and command of that active and enterprising officer Lieutenant Colonel Brown."

St. Mary's, Georgia

"At another period, when it became necessary for his Majesty's service, and the defence of the Province, to encamp the Regular Troops, which was done by Lieutenant-Colonel Glazier, the Inhabitants, as a Militia, without pay, rations, or arms, from Government, chearfully mounted the guards, patroled, and did all the town duty; as indeed they did on other occasions, when deemed necessary." [Source]

General Rufus Putnam's Work In The South

Florida Panhandle

From the Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam, a brief history of his work after the French-Indian War:

The Influence Of Spanish Agents

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"After the war, treaties had been made with them by the State of Georgia, but the Creeks claimed that the stipulated terms had not been kept.  One very strong reason for their hostility was the presence among them of Spanish agents. 

On The Mississippi River In New Orleans, Louisiana

The authorities of Louisiana were determined to keep the navigation of the Mississippi wholly in their hands and to allow the United States no commercial privileges at New Orleans."

Bartram At Matanzas

Fort Matanzas, Florida

From A Description of East-Florida: With a Journal, Kept by John Bartram of ...,  By William Stork, John Bartram (published in 1769):

At the Matanzas, 15 miles south of Wood cutters creek, is a small fort and harbour fit for coasting vessels. 

See the National Park Service site for more information.

Nature In Northeast Florida

Owl Near Fort Matanzas (St. Augustine, Florida, Area)

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On The Borders Of Ahpopka Lake

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"...to attack Osuchee (Cooper), a chief of some note, who was reported to have a large Indian force under his command in a swamp on the borders of Ahpopka lake." [Head-quarters, Army of the South, Fort Armstrong, Letter dated Feb. 7th 1837] [General Jesup]

South Shore Of Lake Apopka, Orange County, Florida

[My assumption is that Ahpopka Lake is Lake Apopka]

Exploring Florida

Northern Florida

Pioneers of the Old Southwest:...

Boone's party explored Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola, and Daniel became sufficiently enamored of the tropical south to purchase there land and a house. His wife, however, was unwilling to go to Florida, and she was not long in convincing the hunter that he would soon tire of a gameless country. A gameless country! Perhaps this was the very thought which turned the wanderer's desires again towards the land of Kentucky.  The silencing of the enemy's whisper in the Cherokee camps had opened the border forests once more to the nomadic rifleman.

Boone was not alone in the desire to seek out what lay beyond. His brother-in-law, John Stewart, and a nephew by marriage, Benjamin Cutbirth, or Cutbird, with two other young men, John Baker and James Ward, in 1766 crossed the Appalachian Mountains, probably by stumbling upon the Indian trail winding from base to summit and from peak to base again over this part of the great hill barrier. They eventually reached the Mississippi River and, having taken a good quantity of peltry on the way, they launched upon the stream and came in time to New Orleans, where they made a satisfactory trade of their furs.

Fascinating Accounts Of Florida

Pioneers of the Old Southwest:...

Meanwhile fascinating accounts of the new land of Florida, ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1763, had leaked into the Back Country; and in the winter of 1765 Boone set off southward on horseback with seven companions. Colonel James Grant, with whose army Boone had fought in 1761, had been appointed Governor of the new colony and was offering generous inducements to settlers. The party traveled along the borders of South Carolina and Georgia. No doubt they made the greater part of their way over the old Traders' Trace, the "whitened" warpath, and they suffered severe hardships. Game became scarcer as they proceeded. Once they were nigh to perishing of starvation and were saved from that fate only through chance meeting with a band of Indians who, seeing their plight, made camp and shared their food with them--according to the Indian code in time of peace.

His Republican, Political And Military Character

Source - Andrew Jackson

"...the [Spanish] commander of Pensacola, Gov. Manrequez, who had aided the English and Indians, in carrying on the war with the United States, was addressed by General Jackson on the subject; Monrequez attempted to evade the subject by the usual course of diplomacy and intrigue.  The republican, the political, and the military character of General Jackson, is fully exhibited in his last letter to Manrequez, as follows [excerpt]:

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Further excerpts:

"My government will protect every inch of her territory, her citizens, and her property, from insult and depredation, regardless of the political revolutions of Europe...she has sacred rights that cannot be trampled upon with impunity."

"Your excellency has been candid enough to admit your having supplied the Indians with arms.  In addition to this, I have learned that a British flag has been seen flying on one of your forts.  All this done whilst you are pretending to be neutral."

And finally:

Ambrister & Arbuthnot

Exhibit At Cedar Key, Florida, Museum

Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson: Together with the Letter of Mr. Secretary Adams, in Vindication of the Execution of Arbuthnot & Ambrister, and the Other Public Acts of Gen. Jackson, in Florida included details about Arbuthnot and Ambrister.

A synopsis of the incident from an Abridged History of the United States: