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Blountstown is named for John Blount, a Creek Indian [7] chief who served as a guide for General Andrew Jackson during his invasion of Spanish Florida in 1818. This invasion was not directed at Spain, per se, but at Seminoles who would attack settlements north of Florida, then retreat to relative safety below the border of Spanish Florida.
John Blount (Laukaufa), a Tukabatchee leader who backed the United States in the 1813—1814 Creek War and the First Seminole War, had moved with his people to the Apalachicola River near Prospect Bluff after 1816 to escape attacks by Muscogee Red Sticks. [5]
Yellow Hair had been the principal chief over five towns, but by the time the United States acquired Florida, he had been replaced by John Blunt. John Blunt, Yellow Hair, Mulatto King (Boyd equates Mulatto King with Young's Black King of Tamatles), and Neamathla , leader of a Mikasuki town east of the Apalachicola River, met with Andrew Jackson ...
This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865. Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [ 1 ]
The seal of the City of Oaks and Azaleas. The history of Bartow, Florida spans over 150 years, although humans have inhabited the area for close to 12,000 years. Established in 1851 by Redding Blount, the city has gone from being a small frontier outpost vulnerable to Seminole Indian attack to being the county seat of Polk County, a county with more than half a million people.
The Florida Historical Quarterly. 51 (4): 355– 380. JSTOR 30145870. Hann, John H. (1988). Apalachee: The Land between the rivers. Gainesville, Florida: University Presses of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-0854-7. Hann, John H. (April 1990). "Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Vistas with Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries".
Poll workers Carolyn Berzinski (left) and her husband Phil, of Vero Beach, make repairs to signs for precinct 27 at the Royal Palm Clubhouse, 400 Woodland Drive in the Vista Royale community on ...
Williams, John Lee, The Territory of Florida: or, Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural History, of the country, the climate, and the Indian tribes, from the first discovery to the present time, with a map, views, &c. New York, New York, A.T. Goodrich 1837