Indians of the Southeast

            Photocopies of correspondence and documents relating to the Creek and other Southeastern Indians, 1785‑1941.  Includes letter of Benjamin Hawkins to Thomas Jefferson, 1800, on affairs in the Creek Nation; Hawkins's "A Comparative Vocabulary" of Indian languages, ca. 1800; general papers of Creek Indian agents, 1785‑1800; and other reports on Creek linguistic and texts, vocabulary and Creek towns in Alabama and West Florida.

            13 items (.34 c.f.).  Originals owned by the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

            Accession M1978-05.

 

 

Ingraham, Isabella (1890-1934)

            Papers, including a typescript "A Sketch of the Life of Isabella Ingraham"; a history of Girl Scouts in Pensacola in which Miss Ingraham worked and two photographs of Miss Ingraham and one of the Brosnaham home at Gull Point.

            5 items.  

            Accession M1968-11/52.

 

 

Innerarity, John

            Warranty Deed from the Seminole Investment Company to John Innerarity, June 10, 1909, transferring property in Saskwa, Oklahoma; signed by John F. Brown, Chief of the Seminoles.

            1 item.  Gift of H. Innerarity.

            Accession M1968-11/46.

 

 

Innerarity Family Papers

            Personal papers, 1794-1904, of William Panton Innerarity, son of James Innerarity, whose brother John was the attorney for the Panton, Leslie and Company.  Includes correspondence, land deeds, genealogical notes, and estate records.  Subjects cover the Innerarity and Hulse families of Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama, the Panton, Leslie and Company, Indian relations, the Indian Wars, the Mexican War, the Civil War, land speculation, Apalachicola Land Company, the Union Club of Pensacola, and family and business interests including their plantation at Pantonia (Cuba?).

            Of special note are James Wilkinson's statement to Governor Folch on the presence of the American Army in New Orleans, 1805; Colonel Henry J. Wilson's letters from Fort Stansburg, Middle Florida on the Indian War (1841), on army life at Fort Snelling (1846), and letters from New Orleans and Vera Cruz, 1846-1848, on the Mexican War; with information on Charles Barron and his sawmill at Red Bluffs, Santa Rosa County, 1857; a plat map for the Innerarity house and adjacent homes and streets in Pensacola, 1859; a receipt for blockade-running, 1862; Civil War letters, 1861-1862, dealing with the movements of Alabama Volunteers from Pensacola to Montgomery and north to join the Army of Virginia; and papers of the United States Supreme Court Case, U.S. vs. Apalachicola Land Company, 1904.

            Major correspondents include Walker Anderson, Charles Barron, John S. Barton, Thomas Durnford, Vincent Folch, John Forbes, Henry Holcombe, Melanie Hulse, Maria de Villiers Innerarity, Santiago Innerarity, Victoria Innerarity, Benjamin Marshall, William Marshall, William Minor, William Panton, James D. Westcott, James Wilkinson, and Henry Wilson.

            118 items (2.0 c.f.).  Purchase.

            Accession M1991-12.

 

 

Innerarity-Hulse Papers

            Correspondence and business papers, 1793-1915, primarily relating to John Innerarity (1783‑1854), of Pensacola, attorney for the firm of Panton, Leslie and Company, and his son‑in‑law, Dr. Isaac Hulse (1797‑1856), Chief Surgeon, West Indies Squadron, U.S. Navy.  Includes letters of John Leslie, John Forbes, Alexander McGillivray, James Innerarity, Thomas Jefferson, J. K. Paulding, and Thomas Forbes.  The emphasis of the collection is on the Florida frontier until ca. 1850, with notes relating to the Panton, Leslie and Company, Indian affairs, slavery, yellow fever, and the Pensacola Navy Yard.   A smaller group of documents, ca. 1870‑1910, relate to the efforts of Dr. Hulse's daughter, Mrs. Emily Hulse Taylor, to secure title to lands of the Apalachicola Land Company.

            Includes letters of James Innerarity (d. 1847), at Mobile, to his brother, John, in Pensacola, 1812‑1842; manuscript journal, 1805, of a council with representatives of the Chickasaw Indians; diary of a visit to the lower Creeks, 1814‑1815; correspondence relating to slaves owned by the company, 1811‑1854; papers relating to the Live Oak Reservation, lumbering activities near Perdido Bay, the Mexican War, land speculation in Arkansas, and Gulf Coast railroads; and family correspondence, 1818‑1859.  Correspondents include Baron Carondelet, Colin Mitchell, Joseph M. White, Samuel L. Southard, Alexander J. Dallas, Walker Anderson, A. P. Upshur, Abel Huntington, Admiral J. H. Clack, Col. Henry J. Wilson, and John T. Newton.   With deposition of Thomas Forbes, 1800, in the case of The Schooner Shark vs. Wilson, Bahamas Court of Vice Admiralty; and genealogical notes relating to the Villers, Cruzat, Hulse and Taylor families.

            886 items (1.5  c.f.). 

            Accession M1966-01, M1966-03.