Letter, 1837 December 21, Fort New Smyrna, Florida, to his mother, Eliza Gerry Townsend, Boston, Massachusetts [manuscript].

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Letter, 1837 December 21, Fort New Smyrna, Florida, to his mother, Eliza Gerry Townsend, Boston, Massachusetts [manuscript].

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Townsend describes the surveying and laying out of the city of New Smyrna, Indian resistance to the government's western removal plan, the drive to trap the Indians in the St. Johns River swamps, the escape of Coacoochee from Fort Marion and his influence over Chief Sam Jones, and the Battle of Withlacoochee. He admires captured and ill Osceola and pities the other imprisoned Indians dying from unhealthy conditions at Fort Marion, St. Augustine.

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