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Bird and Ulmer Papers
Biographical Note:
The Bird and Ulmer families lived in Jefferson County, Florida and
were plantation owners and officers in the Seminole and Civil Wars. The
Birds, including Daniel B. Bird and Major Pickens B. Bird, were natives
of Florida. Paul Ulmer, a native of North Carolina, his brother Julius,
and sister, Sara, came to Florida in 1824 and marries and settled in Jefferson
County at and near Monticello where their descendants still reside.
Scope and Content:
The Bird and Ulmer papers consist of correspondence, land deeds, tax
papers, political and other speeches, resolutions, and papers pertaining
to church, lodges, last will, accounts of executors of estates, reports
of estate, division of land, and division of slaves with values assigned.
These papers pertain chiefly to the plantations of Bunker Hill, Nacossa,
and Freelawn, which flourished before the Civil War. The majority of the
papers are dated from the 1850s through the late 1800s, although a handful
are from the 1920s.
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Created by Aimee Reist and John Nemmers. Send comments to FSU Libraries Special Collections
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