Innerarity-Hulse family papers, 1793-1915
Correspondence and business papers, primarily relating to John Innerarity (1783-1854), of Pensacola, Fla., 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, 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 Innerarity, 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. Clark, Col. Henry J. Wilson, and John T. Newton
Manuscript, English, 1793