First Territorial Survey of Clay County
Improvements are noted on each survey, along with the section numbers where you can find them. Click on underlined areas to see the survey.
How many houses were there? The survey shows 17 houses, although there were probably more, especially near Garey’s Ferry, Whitesville and in areas where fields and patchworks of roads (trails, really) are shown. In particular, Gabiel Priest’s house is not shown; we know it exists because it is used as the 1826 election precinct. Other houses likely to exist are in Middleburg area: Tyner, T. Hagin, M. Hagin, and Branning. 6 fields are shown unattached to houses, so those may have had structures. The post office at Whitesville (1828) is known to exist, probably in Samuel Garey’s house since he was postmaster. About 25 other surnames not shown here, are found in the Gold Mine of Names. In total, about 50 houses could have existed.
The cemeteries at Brannings (T5-R24, before 1810), Ft. Heileman (T5-R25, c1830), Hibernia (5-26, in1821), and Old Hickory Grove (6-26, before 1826) are not shown, but had already been established.
Buddington bought Jonathan R. Wilson’s store and lot on “Virginia Bluff” in 1832. [Parade of Memories, pg 35.]
Place names not referred to, but known to exist on other maps by this time incude: Fleming Island (1823), Feuger’s Fort (which nothing is known about except it appears on an 1829 map at the location of the later Ft. Heilman arsenal), Hagin’s Ferry (camp 1-2 miles south on South Prong), Branum’s Ferry, Mrs. Monroes (on Alchua Trail, burned 1836).
Roads shown on other maps of this time period include: St. Augustine-to-Pupo-to-Micanopy (1810), Bellamy Road (1824), Jacksonville-Alachua-Military Road (1826), Jacksonville-Tallahasee (1829).
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27 |
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| Township
4 |
Survey (1833)
30 – Alachua – St. Mary’s Road 31 – road fragment |
(present day
JENNINGS FOREST) no improvements |
DOCTORS LAKE SW
5 to 31 – NS road 34 – SE Rd; house 36 – SE Rd; house 37 – Kingsley 38 – Kingsley 39 – Kingsley 40 – Pengree 41 – Ferguson 42 – Oliveras |
(present day ORANGE PARK)
DOCTORS LAKE, FLEMING ISLAND N roads all along west side of Kinglsey tracts 40 – unnamed 41 – LAUREL GROVE Kingsley, road leading N out of area; McIntosh house; slave quarters? 42 – Kingsley showing McIntosh sugar works 43-45 – Pleym & Creighton grants overlapping 46 – Harvey 47 – can not locate 48 – Ferguson 49 – Kingsley 50 & 51- Hull |
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| Township
5 |
Survey (1834)
30 & 31 – Alachua Rd |
(present day
MIDDLEBURG) 2 – Tyner (80ac) 11 – Smith house 11 – 2 unreadable grants 14 – WHITESVILLE 22 – Dibie house & field [This is probably a copy error on the map — most likely is Charles Bisbee] 23 – T. Hagin 26 – M. Hagin 33 – road to thru Whitesville to Garey’s Ferry 37 – Branning |
FORKS OF BLACK CREEK
2 – house 3 – house & field 4 – house 4 & 5 – fence 6 – road N from Bl. Cr. Ferry 11 – Wood loading area to Bl. Cr. 15 – Fork of 2 roads, 1 E to river, 1 SW joining with another 19 – 2 EW trails 36 – road 37 – Brennan 38 – not found 39 – Levy 40 – Aredondo 41 – Ferguson 42 – Priest 43 – not found, but Priest & Branning 44 – Cavedo 45 – Brindley |
MOUTH OF BLACK CREEK,
FLEMING ISLAND S, MAGNOLIA SPRINGS 37 – Cashen 38 – Fleming – 2 houses, Fleming sugar mill 39 – Travers 40 – Harvey 41 – Harvey 42 – Ferguson 43 – Ferguson 44 – Fatio 45 – Arredondo 46 – Levy |
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| Township
6 |
(present day
CAMP BLANDING) KINGSLEY POND 30 – Fork of Alachua Road to N and Jacksonville Road to East |
(present day
CAMP BLANDING) 4 – NS road to 19 |
(present day
PENNEY FARMS) no survey found |
(present day
GREEN COVE SPRINGS) 37 – Travers 38 – Clarke (now Clinch) WHITE SPRING; house 39 – Clarke (now Clinch) 35 – Federal Road [Bellamy] to 25 same improvements |
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| Township
7 |
(present day
CAMP BLANDING) no improvements |
(present day
CAMP BLANDING) no improvements |
Survey (1833)
13 – Bellamy Road to 33 |
Survey (1830s)
5 – Bellamy Road to 18 5 – Norton in SW corner 21 – Houghton; house 22 – Leo (perhaps); house 23 – Skyes; house 37 & 38 – Clarke Survey 2 – (1833) |
Survey (1848)
44 – Clarke |
| Township
8 |
(present day
KEYSTONE HTS) At least 8 roads shown At least 5 roads shown |
Survey (1833)
6 –field 7 – house 8 – house; field 15 – house; field 22 – field 32 –field, Road to Putnam patchwork of roads incl. Picolata Rd and Bellamy Rd |
Survey (1833)
no improvements |
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| Township
9 |
Survey (1833)
5 – field 37 – Levy (tiny fragment inside 33) |