Spanish Florida Document Transcriptions
Over the decades I have been conducting documentary research regarding Spanish Florida, I have accumulated a substantial collection of microfilm and other imagery of primary source manuscripts, many of which I have fully or partially transcribed in the original Spanish, and some of which I have also translated into English. Though I have published two full books of translations along with a number of other shorter translations (see list of published translations below), in my own research I tend to work directly from transcriptions in the original Spanish, usually also accompanied by imagery of the original handwritten document when available. Since so many of the most important primary source documents relating to Spanish Florida are available only in either manuscript form (accessible best to those with training in paleography) or in English translations (which are comparatively few and far between, and which are always filtered through the translator's mind), I have decided to begin uploading my transcriptions and transcription extracts (and some translations, when available) to this web page in order to make them accessible to a broader audience.
The list of document pages below will grow over time as I am able. I have grouped them into thematic categories, with links to the actual documents, as well as information about what is actually available (Spanish transcriptions and/or English translations, partial extracts or full documents).
On separate pages I have also assembled links to Digitized Expedition Accounts for all the early colonial expeditions to Florida and the rest of the Southeastern U.S., as well as a collection of Digitized Post-1763 Historical Books relating to colonial Florida.
Separately (and with an increasing number of transcriptions), I have also added direct links to a number of digitized original documents relating to Spanish Florida, focusing initially on Digitized Historical Maps and Geographic Descriptions of Spanish Florida, but also including a range of Digitized Post-Colonial Maps of Spanish Florida.
Missions / Military / Legal / Miscellaneous / Multiple
Missions
Mission Lists, Visitations, and Censuses
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Mission Church Inventories (includes presidial churches administered by Franciscans in Florida)
Military Rosters
St. Augustine
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Pensacola: San Miguel de Panzacola
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Pensacola: Second Spanish Period
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San Marcos de Apalache
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Legal Proceedings
Testimony
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Inventories
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Financial Accounts
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Miscellaneous Documents
Reports
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Geographic Descriptions and Map Legends (links to these and many additional maps at Digitized Historical Maps and Geographic Descriptions of Spanish Florida)
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Expedition Diaries
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Gubernatorial Orders
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Peace Treaties
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Multiple Documents
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Published Translations
Worth, John E.
1993 Relation of the Island of Florida, by Luys Hernandez de Biedma. In The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, ed. by L.A. Clayton, V.J. Knight, Jr., and E.C. Moore, pp. 221-46. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1993 Account of the Northern Conquest and Discovery of Hernando de Soto, by Rodrigo Rangel. In The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, ed. by L.A. Clayton, V.J. Knight, Jr., and E.C. Moore, pp. 247-306. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1995 Fontaneda Revisited: Five Descriptions of Sixteenth-Century Florida. Florida Historical Quarterly 73(3): 339-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30150454
1995 The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 75. University of Georgia Press, Athens (ISBN: 978-0820317458). http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/270.
1998 Appendix to The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Volume II: Resistance and Destruction (ISBN: 978-0813015750). University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2007 The Struggle for the Georgia Coast. Reprint of 1995 edition with expanded preface. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa (ISBN: 978-0817354114).
2014 Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives of Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (ISBN: 978-0813049885).
2015 Recollections of the Juan Pardo Expeditions: The Domingo De León Account. In The Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, 1566-1568, ed. by Robin A. Beck, Christopher B. Rodning, and David G. Moore, pp. 58-80. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.