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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M84- 3
Creator: Gibbs, Kingsley Beatty, 1810-1860
Title, Dates: Kingsley Beatty Gibbs journal, 1840-1843.
Amount: 1.00 v.
1.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Terms Governing Use: Due to the fragile condition of the volume, the microfilm copy is first use.
Biographical/Historical:     Kingsley Beatty Gibbs was the son of George and Isabelle (Kingsley) Gibbs, and nephew of Zephaniah Kingsley, a prominent planter and territorial-era politician with an extensive plantation at Fort George Island, which he purchased from his uncle Zephaniah in March 1839.

    Gibbs entered public life in 1840 as a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1843 he was appointed by Governor R. K. Call as justice of the peace in Duval County. In October, 1846, he was inspector of Duval County elections at St. Johns Bar.

    Sometime after 1847, he moved from his plantation on Fort George Island to St. Augustine, where he built a house on the corner of Bay and Hypolita streets. In St. Augustine, Gibbs was deputy clerk of the Circuit Court under his father, George Gibbs, who was clerk, and later he became clerk of the Circuit Court. He was also the first recording secretary and librarian of the Florida Historical Society from 1856 to 1860. He died in 1859.
Summary:     The collection contains a journal of Kingsley Beatty Gibbs, written in 1858 from his notes. Gibbs wrote monthly journal entries describing life on Fort George Island and the political atmosphere of the time. His reminiscences cover the period from January 1840 to June 1843.
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Subject Access Fields: Reminiscences. aat
Duval County (Fla.)
Fort George Island (Fla.)
Saint Augustine (Fla.)
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