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==Online Records==


== History ==
== History ==
In 1565, Spain established the presidio of Saint Augustine, the first permanent European settlement. Saint Augustine was burned by the English in 1586, another major settlement was not established in Florida until 1698. The territory of Florida originally included Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Florida was ceded to the English in 1763 and divided into West and East Florida. Florida was returned to Spain in 1784. Some of West Florida was annexed to the territories of Louisiana and Mississippi in 1812. The remainder of Florida was ceded to the United States in 1819.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 573. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
In 1565, Spain established the presidio of Saint Augustine, the first permanent European settlement. Saint Augustine was burned by the English in 1586, another major settlement was not established in Florida until 1698. The territory of Florida originally included Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Florida was ceded to the English in 1763 and divided into West and East Florida. Florida was returned to Spain in 1784. Some of West Florida was annexed to the territories of Louisiana and Mississippi in 1812. The remainder of Florida was ceded to the United States in 1819.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 573. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
==Ecclesiastical Records and Sources==
===Catholic Records===
Early Catholic parish registers and records are located at different archives and societies. Some are listed below:
*Historical Society of Saint Augustine, Florida contains early Catholic parish registers, (the originals are located at the Diocese of Havana in Havana, Cuba).
*Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas are located at the Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.
*Historical Society Library, Saint Augustine, Florida. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/38350?availability=Family%20History%20Library Chronological document files, 1766-1930 (film 1019970 ff.)].
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/230025?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803''] by Thomas Timothy McAvoy, (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Archives, 1967).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/241360?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Church and State in the Spanish Floridas, 1783-1822''] by Michael Joseph Curley, (New York: AMS Press, 1974, fiche 6104719).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/745291?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870''] by Michael V. Gannon, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/472303?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Missions of Spanish Florida''] by David H. Thomas, (New York: Garland 1991).
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058265075&view=1up&seq=11 ''Dominicans in Early Florida''] by V.F. O'Daniel, (1930, reprint, Berkeley: University of California, 1992, film 1862235).
*[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00001430/00001/1j ''The Spanish Missions of Florida'' by W.P.A Florida Writers' Project, (n.p.: The Survey 1940, film 0908063).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/609534?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Los Martires de la Florida, 1566-1572''] by Ruben Vargas Ugarte, (Lima, 1940, reprint, Washington DC: The Library of Congress, 1975, film 1688882).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/525313?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''British Burials and Births on the Gulf Coast: Records of the Church of England in West Florida, 1768-1770''] by Winston De Ville, (Ville Platte, LA: The Author, 1986).


==Civil Records and Sources==
==Resources==
===Spanish Dominion===
*[https://archive.org/details/spanishborderlan00boltuoft/page/v ''The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest''] by Herbert E. Bolton, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/142385?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Catalog of the Florida State Archives''] (Tallahassee: Department of State, 1975).
*''Catalog of the P.K. Younge Library of Florida History'', 4 Vols., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977). For a link to the library website is [https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/floridahistory here].
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/213883?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola''] by William S. Coker and Douglas Ingles, (Pensacola: Perdido Bay Press, 1980).
*''British West Florida, 1763-1769'' by Cecil Johnson, (New haven: Yale University Press, 1943).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2506195 ''The British Development of West Florida, 1763-1769''] by Clinton N. Howard, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2015).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/116481?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''East Florida as a British Province, 1763-1784''] by Charles L. Mowatt, (Berkeley: university of California Press, 1943).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/135505?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''New Smyrna, an Eighteenth Century Greek Odyssey''] by E.P. Panagopoulos, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1967).
*''"The Loyalist Migration from East Florida to the Bahama Islands" by Thelma Peters, ''Florida Historical Society Quarterly'' 40:226-40.
*''Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Caribbean'' by Samuel Proctor, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1976).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/333526?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Italians in Colonial Florida: A Repertory of Italian Families Settled in Florida under the Spanish and British Regimes; with a Brief Historical Outline and an Appendix on the Contemporary Colonial Press'']  by Bruno Roselli, (Miami: n.p., 1940, film 1035661).
*''A Bibliography of West Florida'' by James Servies, 4 Vols., (Pensacola: John C. Pace Library, 1981-).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/134454?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785''] by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (Deland: Florida State Historical Society, 1929).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1498539?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''A History of Florida''] by Charlton Tebeau, (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971).
*[https://archive.org/details/governorshipofsp0000tepa ''The Governorship of Spanish Florida, 1700-1763''] by John Jay TePaske, (Durham: Duke university Press, 1964).
 
===Civil Records===
====Spanish Dominion====
Spanish colonial government records of Florida can be found in several different locations.  
Spanish colonial government records of Florida can be found in several different locations.  
*Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain: ''Papeles de Cuba'' and ''Papeles de Santo Domingo''.
*Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain: ''Papeles de Cuba'' and ''Papeles de Santo Domingo''.
*Mitchell Library, Louisiana state University in Baton Rouge (Copies of Cuban papers).
*Mitchell Library, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (Copies of Cuban papers).
*Tilton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans (copies of Cuban papers).
*Tilton Library, Tulane University, New Orleans (copies of Cuban papers).
*Loyola University Library, New Orleans (copies of Santo Domingo papers).
*Loyola University Library, New Orleans (copies of Santo Domingo papers).
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/226970?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Index to the Archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782-1810''], by Stanely Clisby Arthur, (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1975).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/226970?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Index to the Archives of Spanish West Florida, 1782-1810''], by Stanely Clisby Arthur, (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1975).


===British Dominion===
====British Dominion====
Original records of East Florida during the British period are held at the PRO in Kew, Surrey, England. Copies of the records are at the P.K. Yonge Library at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. These records include:
Original records of East Florida during the British period are held at the PRO in Kew, Surrey, England. Copies of the records are at the P.K. Yonge Library at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. These records include:
*East Florida Claims Commission, 1763-1789 (film 1020205 ff./T 77).
*East Florida Claims Commission, 1763-1789 (film 1020205 ff./T 77).
*Loyalist birth, marriage, and death records, 1755-1908 (film 0857997 ff/WO 42).
*Loyalist birth, marriage, and death records, 1755-1908 (film 0857997 ff/WO 42).
*Land grants (CO 5), American Loyalist Claims, series II (AO 13).
*Land grants (CO 5), American Loyalist Claims, Series II (AO 13).
*Documents relating to refugees, 1780-1856 (T 50).
*Documents relating to refugees, 1780-1856 (T 50).
*List and Index Society. ''List of the Records of the Treasury, Paymaster, General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department, and the Board of Trade to 1837'', Vol. 46, (1921, reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1963). This indexes claiments in the East Florida Claims Commission (T 77)
*List and Index Society. ''List of the Records of the Treasury, Paymaster, General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department, and the Board of Trade to 1837'', Vol. 46, (1921, reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1963). This indexes claimants in the East Florida Claims Commission (T 77)
Records for West Florida during the British period are available at the following locations:
Records for West Florida during the British period are available at the following locations:
- Lelia Abercrombie Historical Library in Pensacola, Florida
- Lelia Abercrombie Historical Library in Pensacola, Florida
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- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Oliver Pollock Papers).
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Oliver Pollock Papers).
- Mississippi State Archives (copies of PRO records).
- Mississippi State Archives (copies of PRO records).
 
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287711?availability=Family%20History%20Library "A State of All Grants of Land Which Have Passed the Great Seal of the province of West Florida on Family Right and Purchase since the Arrival: Of His Excellency Governor Chester at Pensacola on the 10th Day of August, 1770 to the 4th Day of November, 1773."] ''Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1783, English Dominion 6'' (Jackson: Department of Archives and History, film 0899983): 83-9.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287711?availability=Family%20History%20Library "A State of All Grants of Land Which Have Passed the Great Seal of the province of West Florida on Family Right and Purchase since the Arrival: Of His Ecvellency Governor Chester at Pensacola on the 10th Day of August, 1770 to the 4th Day of November, 1773."] ''Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1783, English Dominion 6'' (Jackson: Department of Archives and History, film 0899983): 83-9.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/658512?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''English Land Grants in West Florida: A Register for the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Parts of Florida and Louisiana, 1766-1776''] by Winston De Ville, (Ville Platte, LA: The Author, 1986).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/658512?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''English Land Grants in West Florida: A Register for the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Parts of Florida and Louisiana, 1766-1776''] by Winston De Ville, (Ville Platte, LA: The Author, 1986).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/134454?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto''] by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (1929, reprint, Boston: Grogg Press, 1972).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/134454?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto''] by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (1929, reprint, Boston: Grogg Press, 1972).


==Additional Reading==
===Ecclesiastical Records===
*[https://archive.org/details/spanishborderlan00boltuoft/page/v ''The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest''] by Herbert E. Bolton, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).
====Catholic Records====
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/142385?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Catalog of the Florida State Archives''] (Tallahassee: Department of State, 1975).
Early Catholic parish registers and records are located at different archives and societies. Some are listed below:
*''Catalog of the P.K. Younge Library of Florida History'', 4 Vols., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977). For a link to the library website is [https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/floridahistory here].
*Historical Society of Saint Augustine, Florida contains early Catholic parish registers, (the originals are located at the Diocese of Havana in Havana, Cuba).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/213883?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola''] by William S. Coker and Douglas Ingles, (Pensacola: Perdido Bay Press, 1980).
*Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas are located at the Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.
*''British West Florida, 1763-1769'' by Cecil Johnson, (New haven: Yale University Press, 1943).
*Historical Society Library, Saint Augustine, Florida. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/38350?availability=Family%20History%20Library Chronological document files, 1766-1930 (film 1019970 ff.)].  
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2506195 ''The British Development of West Florida, 1763-1769''] by Clinton N. Howard, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2015).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/230025?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803''] by Thomas Timothy McAvoy, (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Archives, 1967).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/116481?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''East Florida as a British Province, 1763-1784''] by Charles L. Mowatt, (Berkeley: university of California Press, 1943).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/241360?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Church and State in the Spanish Floridas, 1783-1822''] by Michael Joseph Curley, (New York: AMS Press, 1974, fiche 6104719).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/135505?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''New Smyrna, an Eighteenth Century Greek Odyssey''] by E.P. Panagopoulos, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1967).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/745291?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870''] by Michael V. Gannon, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965).
*''"The Loyalist Migration from East Florida to the Bahama Islands" by Thelma Peters, ''Florida Historical Society Quarterly'' 40:226-40.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/472303?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Missions of Spanish Florida''] by David H. Thomas, (New York: Garland 1991).
*''Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Caribbean'' by Samuel Proctor, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1976).
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058265075&view=1up&seq=11 ''Dominicans in Early Florida''] by V.F. O'Daniel, (1930, reprint, Berkeley: University of California, 1992, film 1862235).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/333526?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Italians in Colonial Florida: A Repertory of Italian Families Settled in Florida under the Spanish and British Regimes; with a Brief Historical Outline and an Appendix on the Contemporary Colonial Press'']  by Bruno Roselli, (Miami: n.p., 1940, film 1035661).
*[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00001430/00001/1j ''The Spanish Missions of Florida'' by W.P.A Florida Writers' Project, (n.p.: The Survey 1940, film 0908063).
*''A Bibliography of West Florida'' by James Servies, 4 Vols., (Pensacola: John C. Pace Library, 1981-).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/609534?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Los Martires de la Florida, 1566-1572''] by Ruben Vargas Ugarte, (Lima, 1940, reprint, Washington DC: The Library of Congress, 1975, film 1688882).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/134454?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785''] by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (Deland: Florida State Historical Society, 1929).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/525313?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''British Burials and Births on the Gulf Coast: Records of the Church of England in West Florida, 1768-1770''] by Winston De Ville, (Ville Platte, LA: The Author, 1986).
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1498539?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''A History of Florida''] by Charlton Tebeau, (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971).
*[https://archive.org/details/governorshipofsp0000tepa ''The Governorship of Spanish Florida, 1700-1763''] by John Jay TePaske, (Durham: Duke university Press, 1964).


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