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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M89- 24
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Title, Dates: Abandoned documents collection, 1821-1950.
Amount: 1 cubic ft.
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Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Summary:     This is an artificial collection of various documents brought to the Florida State Archives for conservation treatment and never reclaimed by their owners. Among the documents is a set of instructions from Colonel Don Jose Maria Callava, the last governor of Spanish West Florida, to the commander of the Fort of San Marcos de Apalache for surrendering the fort to officers of the United States under command of General Andrew Jackson, dated 15 June 1821 in Pensacola. A Spanish transcription and an English translation of this document is available at the State Archives.

    Also included is a letter from New Orleans dated 20 September 1805, apparently from Don Juan Ventura Morales, Spanish Intendant of Louisiana, to Don Miguel Cayetano Soler, Spanish Secretary of the Treasury. In the aftermath of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the letter relates stalled negotiations with ministers to Spain James Madison and Charles Pinckney regarding the United States' navigation rights on the Mississippi River and right of deposit in New Orleans, which Ventura Morales had suspended in October 1802.
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Ownership/Custodial History: Material in collection was found in the Archives' conservation laboratory and consolidated into one collection in 1989.  In March 2010, printed items (newspapers, broadsides, map) were deaccessioned and transferred to the State Library of Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Pensacola (Fla.)
Florida History To 1821
Fort San Marcos de Apalache (Fla.)
Louisiana.
West Florida.
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