Florida Land Office Records 1781-1931

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Williams, J. P

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Caro, Joseph

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Nisbet, John, Lord.

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Apalachicola Land Company

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Florida. Office of the Surveyor General

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Lewis, Romeo.

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Florida Land Office

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Butler, Robert, Colonel.

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St. Michael's Catholic Church (Pensacola, Fla.)

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The first church dedicated to St. Michael was erected on Santa Rosa Island by Tristan de Luna y Aveliana when a colony was established in 1559. Since that time, church and colony have lived under five flags. Under the Confederacy, the church located at Jefferson and Zarragossa streets was burned by Union soldiers, after allegedly having used it for quartering horses during the Civil War. A new wooden church was erected on East Government at Jefferson Street. Yet another ...