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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2007- 1
	Creator:	Pope family.
	Title, Dates:	Pope family papers, ca. 1820-1918.
	Amount:	.3 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged.
	Restrictions:	RESTRICTED: Box 2 contains original Confederate currency and cannot be viewed except under direct supervision of Archives staff.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Among the earliest white settlers in Jackson County, Florida, were several Pope siblings, including William Stuart Pope (1789-1837) and his wife, Harriet; John M. Pope, who served in the Florida Territorial Legislative Council in the 1820s; and Elizabeth Pope Tanner (wife of John Tanner). William Stuart Pope is the namesake of Pope Cemetery in Sneads, and served as an Indian agent in the Apalachicola River area. Chief John Blount, leader of the Apalachicola band of Seminole, was ostracized by the larger Seminole Nation for accepting the terms of a treaty proposed by the United States in 1832 to grant land in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) to the Seminole and Creek. The United States government misled a surveying party of Seminole representatives into signing their approval of the lands without discussing terms, which the Creek and Seminole leaders objected to, and this lack of transparency sparked the Second Seminole War. Conflict between Chief Blount and the other Seminole leaders forced him to leave his small settlement (now called Blountstown) on the Apalachicola River and migrate to Texas.
	Summary:	This collection contains personal and business documents of the Pope family of Sneads, Florida, including a bill of sale for Mosur, an enslaved 17-year-old Black boy in South Carolina, dated 7 October 1820; a land grant to William S. Pope, dated 15 May 1829; a copy of a letter addressed to "Judge Pope" from "Colonel Blunt, Chief of Apalachicola Band of Indians," asking for Pope's assistance "as our agent" in retrieving money and goods stolen from him in an attack on his house, dated 3 May 1833; a Confederate 20-dollar bill, 1864; a title search documentation/abstract of title for "T.H. Pope and wife Ruby H." for a mortgage on 150 acres of Jackson County land, 1918; a pencil-drawn map of the Pope Lake area (undated, post-1926); and handwritten genealogy notes, 20th century.
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	Additional Physical Form:	The 1833 letter from John Blunt to William S. Pope has been digitized and is available on the Florida Memory web site: http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/336068
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	Electronic Records Access:	http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/336068
	Subject Access Fields:	Blount, John, Apalachicola Seminole chief, d. ca. 1834. Pope family. Pope, William Stuart, 1789-1837. Seminole Indians. Slavery Florida Land patents. Maps. aat Paper money. Blountstown (Fla.) Jackson County (Fla.) Sneads (Fla.)
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