Florida Microform Sets

Bucket and Dipper Club held meetings in the Fruitland Park, Florida area (formerly Sumter County which is now Lake County) and was composed of Englishmen who came to Florida with the English land companies.

Includes Club records: correspondence, rules, minutes, social evenings, list of members, concert programme, and results of spelling bees. Also includes Temperature journals of Louis Bosanquet 1882-1925.

Undertakers Memoranda, June 15, 1891-Dec. 27, 1946. (Not indexed, on day by day basis)
Funeral register, Jan. 1, 1919-Dec. 30, 1952. (Indexed, each volume alphabetically)
Greenwood and Palm cemetery records. (Indexed alphabetically)
Cremations records, Jan. 1, 1934-Dec. 1949. (Indexed)
Ambulance records, Jan. 1, 1934- May 1955. (Not indexed, on day by day basis)
Veterans and Orlando Air Base records. Veterans: Jan. 10, 1938-Mar.18, 1952. Orlando Air Base: Nov. 22, 1940-May 3, 1942. (Not indexed, on day by day basis)

Although these records are paper, not microform, they are included in this list because of related content.

Microfilm of manuscript collection in the University of Notre Dame Archives.

Accompanied by a 45 p. printed reel guide. [REF CD3269.A2 C32 Guide]

Canadian & U.S./Florida history. The official and private correspondence and papers of General Sir Frederick Haldimand, Commander of posts at Three Rivers, Pensacola and St. Augustine 1758-1777, Acting Commander in Chief in North America 1773-1774, and Governor of Quebec 1778-1784, from the British Library.

115 reels/18 page guide

A series of correspondence articles in the Cincinnati Commercial on Florida with varying titles published from 1869.

Represents part of the Live Oak letters. Includes index.

"C.W.Jacocks, Formosa, Orange Co., Fla., from 28th day July A.D. 1883, to..."

Microfilmed by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from an original manuscript housed in the Southern Historical Collection.

Books 1-11. Includes indexes.

Corporation grantor index to deeds.--Corporation grantee index to deeds.--Corporation mortgagor index to mortgages.--Corporation mortgagee index to mortgages.--Corporation miscellaneous index.--Corporation grantor index to miscellaneous.--Corporation grantee index to miscellaneous.

Deed record starts with 1955.

Reel also includes homestead receipts and homestead patents which date into the 1800's.

First deeds A-C destroyed by fire.

First part of Index to mortgagee records included on reel #5.

Also entitled Lien record.

Also entitled Mortgage record.

First part of mortgagor index to mortgages included on reel 5 of index to deeds

(MFLM F317.O6 D44)

"Miscellaneous plats recorded elsewhere than in Plat books" included on reel 3.

Arranged and compiled with authority of Wilbur McCoy.

"Showing acreage in orange groves and estimated yield in boxes."

Thesis - Princeton University. Bibliography: p. 111-115.

"Reproduced from original copies in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress." "Maps are arranged on each reel in the order they appear in Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress." Original maps published by Sanborn Map Co., New York.

Fire insurance maps in the Library of Congress : plans of North American cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company : a checklist / compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division ; introd. by Walter W. Ristow.
U.S. DOCS LC 5.2:F51

The University of Florida Map & Imagery Library in Gainesville has most of these maps for Florida towns in paper format, and provides a brief list of the available maps.  The Orange County Regional History Center has paper copies of the 1925 maps for Orlando and Winter Park, updated through the 1950's.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Maps of Florida comprise an online collection of more than 300 bibliographic units in more than 3,000 map sheets dating from 1860 through 1923. Digitized maps are in the public domain and illustrate the development of more than 130 Florida cities.

The dates vary by town, with the earliest from 1884. For example, Orlando maps are available for 1884, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1903, 1908, 1913, 1919, 1925, and 1925-1951.  The maps after 1923 are not available online because of copyright restrictions.

The following towns and cities are arranged alphabetically on the microfilm reels:

Alachua, Apalachicola, Apopka, Arcadia, Auburndale, Avon Park, Bartow, Belle Glade, Blountstown, Bonifry, Boynton, Bradentown, Bronson, Brooksville, Bunnell, Bushnell, Cassadaga, Cedar Key, Chipley, Clearwater, Clermont, Cocoa, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Crescent City, Crestview, Dade City, Dania, Daytona, Daytona Beach, De Funiak Springs, De Land, Delray, Dunedin, Dunnellon, Eau Gallie, Eustis, Fellsmere, Fernandina, Florida City, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Meade, Fort Myers, Fort Pierce, Frost Proof, Gainesville, Graceville, Green Cove Springs, Gulfport, Haines City, Hampton, Hastings, Havana, Hialeah, High Springs, Hollywood, Holmestead, Inverness, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Jasper, Jennings, Jensen, Key West, Kissimmee, Lake Butler, Lake City, Lake Helen, Lake Wales, Lake Worth, Lakeland, Largo, Leesburg, Lemon City, Little River, Live Oak, Madison, Marianna, Mayo, Mayport, Melbourne, Miami, Miami Beach, Milton, Monticello, Moore Haven, Mount Dora, Mulberry, New Port Richey, New Smyrna, Newberry, Ocala, Ocoee, Okeechobee, Orlando, Ormond, Pablo Beach, Pahokee, Palatka, Palm Beach, Palmetto, Panama City, Pass-A-Grille, Pensacola, Perry, Pierce, Plant City, Pompano, Port Saint Joe, Punta Gorda, Quincy, River Junction, Safety Harbor, Saint Augustine, Saint Cloud, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Gulf Beaches, Sanford, Sarasota, Seabreeze, Sebring, Starke, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, Tarpon Springs, Tavares, Titusville, Umatilla, Vero Beach, Waldo, Wauchula, West Palm Beach, White Springs, Williston, Winter Garden, Winter Haven, Winter Park, Zephyrhills

The following communities are included on the maps of neighboring communities from the alphabetic list above:

Alton, Amelia Beach, Atlantic Beach, Bal Harbour, Bath Club Estates, Bay Harbor, Bay Harbor Islands, Bella Vista Beach, Belleair, Biscayne Park, Boca Ciega, Branford, Brownsville, Chattahoochee, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Coronado, Coronado Beach, Daytona Beach, Don Cesar Place, Dowling Park, East Mulberry, East Pensacola Heights, Edgewater, El Portal, Florence Villa, Fort McCoy, Golden Beach, Goulding, Hawk's Park, Hialeah, Holly Hill, Hopkins, Indian Creek Village, Irvine, Jamieson, Kendrick, Lakewood, Lido Beach, Madeira Beach, Maitland (indexed as Naitland), Manatee, Martel, Martin, Melbourne Beach, Miami Beach, Miami Shores, Miami Springs, Mills at Millview, Mitchell's Beach, Nocatee, Neptune, Neptune Beach, North Bay Island, North Bay Village, North Miami, North Pass-A-Grille, Oak, Old Town, Ortega, Palm Beach, Ponte Verde, Port Tampa, Port Tampa City, Pughsville, Punta Vista, Reddick, Riviera Beach, Rockledge, St. Augustine Beach, Saint Petersburg Beach, Samoset, Seabreeze, Silver Bluff, South Miami, Springfield, Sulphur Springs, Sunny Isles, Sunset Beach, Sunshine Beach, Surfside, Tancrede Station, Tildenville, Treasure Island, Vero, Warrington, Watertown, West Augustine, West Palm Beach, West Tampa, Whitfield Estates, Wilbur-by-the-Beach, Wilbur-by-the-Sea, Woolsey, Ybor City, Zuber

MFLM G 3931
.G475 S3 1983

See also General Land Office Records for online versions of most of these survey records.

See also General Land Office Records for online versions of most of these survey records.

Name indexes are available for 1830, 1840, & 1850 in the UCF Library Reference Collection:  REF F310.J3

Population schedules for earlier and later years are available in the Genealogy Department of the Orlando Public Library, which has all available years for the entire U.S.

Issued by the State Records Microfilm Project as a joint enterprise of the Library of Congress and the University of North Carolina.
An index is located on a separate reel in this set.  The index includes coverage of other states, but only the Florida materials are held by UCF.

Includes legislative records such as the journals of the Legislature (1822-1869, 1912), ordinances & statutory law (1821-1877), Duval's Compilation of Public Acts (1839), Thompson's Digest (1847), constitutional records (1810-1868), administrative records (1827-1850), executive records (1845-1874), Supreme Court Record Book (1825-1845), legislative/executive records (1764-1783), records of the rudimentary State (1810-1817), and the following miscellany:

• Bernard Romans. A concise natural history of East and West Florida..., 1775
• East Florida Gazette (St. Augustine) - various issues from 1783
• Pensacola Gazette - various issues from 1824 and 1828
• Havitantes de la Florida Oriental. El Coronel Jose Coppinger. San Augustin, 1821
• 6 Ordinances, Major General Andrew Jackson. Pensacola, 1821
• The case of the inhabitants of East-Florida... St. Augustine, 1784
• John Melish. A description of East and West Florida, 1813
• Circular, Army of Pensacola, Mar. 31, 1862
• Oration delivered by Col. James Gadsden...Tallahassee, 1827
• A eulogy...on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. H. M. Brackenridge, Pensacola, 1826
• Reply of the board of directors of the Union Bank of Florida, Tallahassee, 1840
• Prayers and other devotions for the use of the soldiers of the army of the Confederate States.
• Experience of a Confederate States prisoner...Richmond, 1862
• Regulations of the ordinance department of the Confederate States, Richmond, 1861
• 1863 Aug. 23-1864 Feb. 6, R. B. Hilton. Notes on habeas corpus and prisoners of war
• Constitution of the State of Florida. St. Joseph, 1839
• Buckingham Smith Papers: 1739 Mar. 22-1741 Feb. 1 Vol. 23 Letters to the Captain General of Cuba; Vol. 9 Recapture of Florida...; Vol. 11 Florida papers
• A dialogue between a colonel of the militia and a militiaman, in relation to the rights of militiamen and the execution of the six militiamen. no date
• A short system of military tactics..., 1844
• Military and patrol laws... Tallahassee, 1847

Some of the above information might also be found in Territorial Papers of the United States: Florida Territory, 1821-1845, compiled by Clarence Edwin Carter - available in bound paper volumes in the General Collection:

E 173.C3 v.22-26
E 173.C32 1973 v.22-26

See also the American State Papers and U.S. Congressional Serial Set

MFLM F311.U5

Florida militia muster rolls, Seminole Indian Wars, are also available in UCF's Florida Documents Collection, MA B3:S63/, which also has various other lists from Spanish garrisons (1565) through Desert Storm (1991).

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