TERRITORIAL PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES

FLORIDA TERRITORY - VOL. XXIV

(Transcribed by Betty L. Norem on 07 Dec 2000)

 

pp. 658-661

 

APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE BY THE GOVERNOR

[LC-Fla. (Terr.) Legis. Council, Journal:Pr.]

                    [February 12,1832]

 

The following nominations were made by the executive, and confirmed

by the House.

 

MOSQUITOE COUNTY

David R. Dunham - Presiding Justice.

 

ALACHUA COUNTY

Henry Parkinson, Thomas Ledwith, Horace Smith, Joshua Stafford,

Francis R Sanchez and Augustus Steele - Justices Of the Peace.

Augustus Steele and Charles Waldon.- Notaries Public; Charles

Waldon and J. B. Benjamin - Auctioneers.

 

FAYETTE COUNTY 

Obed. E. Murray, Presiding Justice; Peter Simmons, John Bird, John

Hopson, Joel Hammitter, Joseph Jerrison, John McDaniel - Justices

of the Peace; Lyman Kellog - Notary Public; Joseph R. Betton -

Auctioneer; Gerry  Pattason - Sheriff; Joseph R Betton - Coroner;

Ivory Perry - Clerk C. Court; James Mills - County Surveyor; Ben.

P. Perry, Lyman Kellog, Joseph R. Betton - Inspectors of Lumber;

Wm. S. Pope, Bucknor James, and Joseph Patterson - Trustees of

School Lands.

 

ST. JOHNS COUNTY 

E. B. Gould - Presiding Justice; James Riz, John Gray Jr., Jos. Delespine,

Dan’l. Hurlbert, Antonio Alvarez, Antonio J. Tracy - Justice of the Peace;

Jos. Delespine, Jno. C. Cleland - Notaries Public; and Frs. Marin -

Inspector of Lumber.

 

JACKSON COUNTY

Addison Mandell - Presiding Justice; Thos. M. Bush, Hector McNeill, Jas.

Brown, Ben Holden, E. J. Bower, R. L..Watson, Geo. B Hawkins,

John Britt, Jr., O.Williams, Henry Trippe, Lewis Holland, Benjamin

Hogg and W. J. Maulden - Justices of Peace; E. J. Bower - Notary

Public; H. N. Nowland and Amos Ury - auctioneers; Joseph Wachob,

H. O'Neil, and H. B. Crews - Trustees School Lands.

 

GADSDEN COUNTY 

W. B. McCall, D G. Rainey, A. G. Sweet, and Danl. M. Hinson -

Justices of Peace; D. G. Rainey - Notary Public; M. McCaswell -

auctioneer; Archibald Smith, John Edwards, and William Norwood,

Trustees School Lands.

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY 

Abel G. Loper, Presiding Justice; C. H. B. Collins, Robert Brown,

Jacob Halbrook, John W. Roberts, James Prevate - Justice of the

Peace; John W. Roberts - auctioneer and Notary Public.

 

DUVAL COUNTY

Horatio S.Dexter - Notary Public; Robert Bigelow, H. D. Baldwin,

H. S. Dexter - auctioneers; James Houston, James Hall, Charles E.

Flinn, Squire Streeter, C. Taylor, J. Broward - Justices of the Peace;

John L. Doggett - Presiding Justice.

 

HAMILTON COUNTY

James S. Bell - Presiding Justice; William B. Hooker, Solomon

Hall, John S. Stewart, David Moat, Robert B.Clayton  - Justices

of the Peace

 

ESCAMBIA COUNTY

E. L. Drake - Presiding Justice; R. M. Forbes - Justice of the

Peace; Sylvester Bill, Peter Alba, Samuel Fry - Trustees School

Lands.

 

FRANKLIN COUNTY

D. L. White - Presiding Justice; Richard Hovenden - Judge Oyer

of & Terminer; J. D. Bullock, Walter Davis - Justices of the Peace; 

J. H. Dean - auctioneer; N. Baker - Sheriff; Nelson Hawley - clerk

county court; Phineas La Prade - Lumber Inspector; G. F. Floyd -

Justice of the Peace and Notary Public; W. D. Price - Notary Public

and Auctioneer.

 

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Levi P. Miller, N. H. Mitchell, Thornas Everitt, L. Lelland, Elijah

Robbins - Justices of the Peace.

 

WALTON COUNTY

Samuel H. Mitchell - Presiding Justice; Daniel Anderson, John L.

McKennan, F. J. Snowden, Sween Gillis - Justices of the Peace.

 

JEFFERSON COUNTY

J. A. Cuthbert - Presiding Justice; John J. A. Howell, Benjamin

Parnell, Edward McDaniel, and Joseph B Watts - Justices of the

Peace.

 

NASSAU COUNTY

Francis D. Pons - Justice of the Peace.

 

LEON COUNTY

Benjamin Byrd, L. W. Burnett - auctioneers at Magnolia; W. G.

Ponder, B. H. Duval, J. M Vickers, H. Bradford, Nathan Vickers,

Thos. J. Greene, Z. Fort, Lemuel B. Scaggs, Timothy McCarty,

Charles Austin, and Jesse H. Willis  - Justices of the Peace;

Turbutt R. Betton - Commissioner of Tallahassee; Elisha B. Perkins,

D. Thomas and Thomas Brown - Directors of the Capitol; Ben

Chaires - Presiding Justice; John Wescott, Jr. - Commissioner

of St. Marks.

 

MONROE COUNTY

Jacob Houseman, Hez. Wood, Ezra Ladlow, Charles Howe, Ede

Van Evour - Auctioneers. G. W. Somearindych and Ede Van

Evour - Justices of the Peace; G. W. Sornearindych, Hez. Wood,

and Ede Van Evour, Notaries Public.

 

The following nominations were, also, confirmed;

I. G. Searcy - Adjutant General; Henry Washington - Quarter

Master General of the Militia of Florida (vice Col. Nuttall, resigned);

Commissioners to protect the fisheries at Tampa Bay - A. Steele;

at Charlotte Harbor - Geo. Willis;  at Key West, William A.

Whitehead and Thomas Eastin.

 

Betty Norem

bnorem@aol.com