Minutes of the
In the absence of the
President and considering that the Vice President was to provide the program, Secretary
Yarnell called the meeting to order at
Members present: Jack Bolen,
John Sessums, Ira Ward, Walter Young, Marty Miller, Cy Gamber, Robert Koehler, Robert
Yarnell, and Kevin Yarnell.
Welcome
guests: a prospective member, Chuck
Hawley, June Bolen, Phyllis Ward, Grant Wallin of the Clearwater Chapter and his wife Pat.
The secretary introduced the
guests.
The minutes of the December
meeting were approved.
The secretary made several
announcements:
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a chapter directory
is now available however an address change was reported after they were printed
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The chapter
received an acknowledgement of our recent donation of $94.65 to the Friends of
the SAR Library. We are now members until
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Several members
sent notes to the secretary via email which he passed on to the members
The Treasurer reported a
balance of $2,512.11 and petty cash of $159.16. Marty Miller has again agreed
to audit the chapter books for 2008. The Treasurer asked for approval of the
membership for this which was granted. Also, it is the practice of the chapter
to retain financial records for only 3 years. Thus, permission was asked for
the 2005 records to be destroyed. This too was granted.
The registrar, Luke Lloyd, sent
an update on the status of those applying for membership.
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Two new names
were moved into the “applications” category.
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Richard Beatty’s
application was sent to the state registrar for processing.
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Chuck Copeland’s
application is at National.
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Chuck Hawley’s
application is at the state registrar waiting for some further documentation
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No new member
applications were approved since the last meeting however supplementals for
Dick Hurley and Luke Lloyd were approved. No other supplementals are pending at
National.
The secretary asked Grant Wallin to install the chapter’s newest members Walter Young
and Ira Ward. After taking the oath, Grant presented each with a rosette and
their membership certificates.
There was no old business.
Under new business Vice President
Yarnell discussed the issue of obtaining speakers. The size of our group has
made it difficult to obtain quality speakers and various methods by which we
might induce these speakers were discussed. Since several key members were not
in attendance Jack Bolen suggested the issue be brought up again at the
February meeting. The Vice President had one specific speaker in mind and asked
for some guidance in this instance. After discussion John Sessums
moved to give the Vice President authorization to spend up to $100 to obtain a
speaker from the Seminole War Foundation for March. The motion was seconded by
Jack Bolen and passed.
The meeting recessed for lunch.
The
secretary reconvened the meeting and introduced Grant Wallin
to install the 2009 chapter officers.
Vice
President Yarnell then presented a review of the Revolution in east
It
is first necessary to remember that there were 15 British colonies at the time
of the Revolution.
The
speaker then took the membership through the three “Florida Expeditions”. These
were incursions by
Revolution in
British /
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Patrick Tonyn-Governor of
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General/Colonel
Augustine Prevost, commander of 60th Regiment of Foot
Col.
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Thomas
Browne-commander of the East Florida Rangers, (later the Kings Rangers).
Summer 1776 1st
Col.
William Moutrie organizes American/colonial forces to
invade and capture
Winter 76-77 Browne raids into
Spring 1777 2nd
Co-commanded by
Spring 1778 Browne again raids into
Summer 1778 3rd
Yet
another American/colonial expedition crosses the
There
are no more Colonial incursions into
As a
result of the Treaty of Paris, both East and
Location of
The
Location of
The Battle of Thomas Creek took
place in what is now part of the Timucuan Ecological
and Historic Preserve. It is located approx. 13 miles east of
downtown
Bob
pointed out that for the most part this wasn’t patriots versus loyalist but
rather
The
talk concluded with the recounting of how Bob found Thomas Brown’s diary while
doing some moving for the Florida Historical Society. The diary stops after the
battle of Alligator Creek. It ends with an entry by his son. The son recorded
that Brown moved to
Ira Ward won the 50/50 drawing.
The treasury was thus enriched by $8.00.
John Sessums
gave the benediction, a prayer by George Washington for the nation. The secretary
led the recessional and adjourned the meeting at
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Yarnell
Chapter Secretary
Printed here are background
notes on the Revolutionary War in the south provided by the speaker.
Brief chronology of the American war for
Independence-Southern Phase
Dec. 1778 British
capture
Misc.
guerrilla activity by Francis Marion, Charles Sumter and Andrew Pickens
Gen.
Greene and his men fight Cornwallis to a standstill in