Ormond Family Papers, 1784-1909 (bulk: 1834-1892)

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Ormond Family Papers, 1784-1909 (bulk: 1834-1892)

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Correspondence, business account notebooks, official marriage, deed, estate records, and a manuscript memoir. Collection includes family correspondence ranging from James I in 1884 to James III in 1882, the bulk (3 boxes) of which chronicles the business and personal affairs of James III. Major subjects covered include the Second Seminole War in Florida, the Civil War, the Andersonville Prison in Georgia, and business operations characteristic of the nineteenth century. Other topics include yellow fever outbreaks in Florida, frontier life in north Florida, Spanish land grant claims, and family history. Researchers may find the ongoing, regular correspondence between James III and McNaught useful for topics relating to business practices of the period. Of particular note is the handwritten autobiography of James III, dictated in the year before his death.

2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

University of Florida

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SNAC Resource ID: 7287942

University of Florida

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Ormond family.

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James Ormond (d. 1819), sea captain and planter (ca. 1790-1820) in present day Volusia County, Florida; James Ormond (d. 1829), who fled Scotland in 1821 and managed the plantation until his death; and James Ormond (1819-1892), who fought in the Second Seminole War, during which he was forced to abandon the plantation and subsequently became a merchant in Port Leon, Florida. He later founded Newport, Florida. From the description of Ormond Family Papers, 1784-1909 (bulk: 1834-1892) (...

Ormond, James, 1815-1892

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