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Herbert Eaustace Goodbread was the fifth child of Phillip Souder Goodbread, Jr. and Mabel Clair Goodbread. He was born on September 29, 1898 in Nassau County, Florida, and died in Tucson, Arizona, on June 28, 1986.
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Houston Parrish Goodbread was the eighth child of Phillip Souder Goodbread, Sr. and Elizabeth Ann Parrish. He was born on April 19, 1876 at Chester, Nassau County, Florida. He died on April 22, 1953 at Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida. On November 28, 1909, he married Frances Strickland in Nassau County, Florida.
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Jacob Tapley Goodbread, third child of Phillip Souder Goodbread and Elizabeth Ann Parrish, was born on October 10, 1862. He died December 17, 1948, at Callahan, Nassau Co., Florida. He was married in Nassau County on January 29, 1885, to Charlotte Lee Colson.
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Phillip Souder Goodbread, Sr., the 2nd child & 2nd son of Jane Dean Brown and Jacob Tapley Goodbread; was born at White Oak, Camden Co. Ga. June 11, 1835 and died Feb. 21 1911 at Chester, Nassau Co. Fla.
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A description and image copy of the 1884 hand drawn lithograph Bird's Eye View of Fernandina, Fla.
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Resolution passed in 1833 for the establishment of a Port of Entry at Fernandina Harbor and for establishing and providing for a Naval depot at the Port.
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Proclamation Re Election by Governor Duval [July 23, 1826] William P. Duval, Governor of the Territory of Florida, announces that an election for thirteen members of the Legislative Council will be held on the first Monday of October. Election districts are established. 9th District – within the following assigned limits, “the boundary lines of Nassau County.” Four precincts – 1st precinct at Roses Bluff, judges, James T. Oneil and William Mathews jun. 2d precinct – at the house of D. Higginbottom judges, D. Higginbottom, Ridgon Brown and Lewellen Williams. 3d precinct – at Amelia Island – Fernandina, judges, Chas Seaton, Thomas Reynolds and Domingo Acosta 4th precinct – at Wm. Frinks house, judges, William Frink, Britton Knight and James G. Smith Reference: Florida Territorial Papers, Vol. XXIII, p.p. 619, 622. Acting Governor McCarty to the President of the Legislative Council [January 28th 1828] William M. McCarty, the Acting Governor Florida, sent a letter to the President of the Legislative Council nominating the following people in Nassau County for office: James McCormickGustavus CoxDaniel McDanielThomas BackhouseChas Canto Magistrate for the Upper DistrictMagistrate for the Middle DistrictMagistrate for the Amelia DistrictAuctioneerLumber Measurer Reference: Florida Territorial Papers, Vol. XXIII, p. 1016 1833 Appointments to Office by the Governor [February 17, 1833] Nominations were considered and confirmed “yesterday”. Nassau County Judge of the county court – James T. O’NeilJustices of the Peace – Robert Miller, John Middleton jr, John Braddock, Charles Seaton, William Braddock, William Buford, Zachariah MoatNotaries Public – John Evertson, John Middleton jrAppraisers
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A memorial signed by the inhabitants of Florida in 1831. This memorial can be considered a census of the free male population at that time since it appears that all men in each area signed this memorial.
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Names stricken from Registration Book, by the Board of County Commissioners of Nassau County, October 6th, 1882.
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Fernandina was the last city platted by the Spanish in the New World, thirty years after the plat of Los Angeles. The plat of what is now known as Old Town follows the traditional elements of city planning in the New World by the Spanish. A town plaza faced the harbor with streets laid out in a grid pattern with lots measuring 46 feet wide and 96 feet deep. The Spanish Governor’s order to rezone Fernandina was signed on May 10, 1811, and read as follows: “Whereas, for the purpose of regulating the town of Fernandina on the Island of Amalia in this province, which town your Governor has observed to grow day by day, and in Order to lend it greater usefulness, comfort and beauty, I, Governor (White) ordered the Surveyor General, George I. F. Clarke, to prepare a plat of that establishment and of possible improvements which could be made in it.” The land grants given here were originally published in the American Guide Series, “Seeing Fernandina: A Guide to the City and its Industries,” in 1940. The material was compiled from documents in Spanish land grants. Square 1 Half Lot 1: Granted to Miguel Mabrite, at some time previous to 1814, presumably to build a dwelling house. Half Lot 2: Granted to Jose Jimenez, who built an eating place on it about 1813. Half Lot 3: Granted to James Cashen, Subaltern (military) Judge of the Island of Amalia and the Frontier for the Spanish Government, about 1809....
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