De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-approximately 1799

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Savannah, Ga. resident.

From the description of Papers, 1755-1790. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38518935

Surveyor General, geographer, military engineer, naturalist, author.

Description of the first attempts to order the plant communities of South Florida were published by DeBrahm in 1772 and 1773. Although DeBrahm wrote a guide to navigators in 1772, his final report to England is more complete. In the final report he recognized four major communities: swamp, savannah or meadow, pineland and hammock. Included in the first were mangrove swamp, maple swamp, cypress swamp and loblolly bay swamp.

He recognized three pinelands that have no obvious relationship with classifications used later: low pine/wire grass; middling pine/wire grass and bunch grass; and high pine/bunch grass. Perhaps the first was scrub and the last sand hill pine. His last category, hammock, was one of the early records of usage of this word of Arabic/English origin.

From the description of Papers, 1766-1782. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 49668561
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creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Gieger tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Fulton tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Sutherland tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Elliott tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [McBean tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Island of Hasobaw survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Bortz tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [St. Catherine's Island (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. A map of the Indian nations in the southern department, 1766. William L. Clements Library
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. Papers, 1755-1790. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Gilman tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Fraser tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Davis tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
referencedIn Copy of 1769 Florida land grant and map [manuscript], 1823. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Earle tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. A map of the sea coast of Georgia & the inland parts thereof extending to the westward of that part of Savannah called Broad River including the several inlets, rivers, islands, sounds, creeks, rivulets, towns, roads, forts & most remarcable places therein : Performed at the request of his exclly. James Wright esqr. captn. genl. & governor in chief of the said province the 20th day of August 1763 & in the third year of the reign of his majesty King George III / by Henry Yonge, JGW De Brahm surs. genl. William L. Clements Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Robinson tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Baker tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Galphin tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. Papers, 1766-1782. University of Florida
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Shiraus tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. [Charts of the coast of Florida] By W. de Brahm. Library of Congress
referencedIn Ellis, Henry, 1721-1806. Warrant, 1759 Dec. 4, to Henry Yonge and William De Brahm. Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Box tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Emanuel tract, Burke County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Bord tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Holzendorff tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf William L. Clements Library. William Henry Lyttelton papers, 1730-1806. William L. Clements Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Ogleby tract, Burke County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. A map of South Carolina from the Savannah Sound, with the several plantations, their proper boundary lines, their names, and the name of the proprietors included and the grants of lands belonging to Landgrave William Hodgson coloured green and edged with red with additional plans of those plots which have been resurvey'd by order of Messrs: Boss & Brailsford the purchasers from Hodgson who inherited from his ancestors as they had their original grant from the Palatinate Lord Carteret &c. William L. Clements Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Harley tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
referencedIn American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806 American Philosophical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Nesmith tract, Burke County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Parker tract, Chatham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Donnam tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Sapelo Island (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [McKenzie tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Bell tract, Burke County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [McLean tract, Effingham County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Dicks tract, Liberty County (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
referencedIn Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 1731-1801. Papers, 1766-1782. University of Florida
creatorOf Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893. Plan of the town Ebenezer and its fort / John Gerar Wm. DeBrahm, surveyor ; C.C. Jones, Jr. del. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
creatorOf Yonge, Henry. [Sapelo Island (Ga.) survey]. Georgia Historical Society
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. A map of Savannah River beginning at Stone-Bluff, or Nexttobethell, which continueth to the sea; also, the four sounds Savañah, [Warsaw], Hossabaw, and St. Katharines, with their islands; likewise Neuport, or Serpent River, from its mouth to Benjehova Bluff. Surveyed by William Noble of Brahm, late captain ingenier under His Imperial Majesty Charles the VII. Library of Congress
creatorOf Garden, Alexander, 1730-1791. Alexander Garden correspondence, 1776. College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. Hydro-geographical map representing part of Sandwich Gulf, and of the New Bahama Channel, the northernmost extent of the Martir Reefs ; Dartmouth and Heppel inlets, as also part of the main westward of Cape Florida, on which main is laid out the right honourable the Earl of Dartmouth, his territory ... : From the actual surveys and observations of / William Gerrard de Brahm esqr. William L. Clements Library
referencedIn William Henry Lyttelton papers 1730-1806 1755-1761 Lyttelton, William Henry, papers William L. Clements Library
creatorOf Corse, Carita Doggett, b. 1892. DeBrahm's report on east Florida, 1773 / Carita Doggett Corse. Jacksonville University, Carl S. Swisher Library
creatorOf De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-ca. 1799. A plan of part of the coast of East Florida including the St. John's River from an actual survey by Wm. Gerard De Brahm esqr. of the southern district of North America : 1769, done / by John Lewis, and Samuel Lewis. William L. Clements Library
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