updated 9.22.07
This Chapter has been formed in Jacksonville, Florida on September 22, 2007 in support of
and agreement with the Mission Statement of NWC, Inc.
2007 OFFICERS:
President: Doug Riley
Vice-President: Lisa King
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Sergeant-at-Arms:
Meetings Held at
Culhane's on the Third
Saturday of the month at 6PM
Jacksonville is important to local Celts due to its history:
Between 1763 and 1783, the area was a British colony known as British East Florida. No one did more to increase Florida's population than Scotsman JAMES GRANT, the Governor of British East Florida. During his administration, the Indians signed the Treaty of Fort Picolata which set boundaries between the two peoples. Philadelphia botanists John and William Bartram visited East Florida and reported the Timucuan villages were peaceful and prosperous under Grant's rule.
Grant's ability to recruit was reflected on the growth of the two colonies. East Florida granted 2,856,000 acres to West Florida's meager 380,000 acres
British East Florida was returned to Spain as part of the Treaty of Paris which ended the revolutionary disagreement between England and 13 of its North American colonies.
In 1819, what became Jacksonville became part of the United States when Spain
ceded the area to the United States in return for $5 million as part of the
Adams-Onis treaty.
Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821 and was granted statehood in 1845.
The earliest use of the name "Jacksonville" was in an 1822 petition to the U.S. Secretary of State asking that the town be officially recognized as a port of entry. While ScotsIrish-American Andrew Jackson never visited Northeast Florida, he was the first military-governor of Florida following Spain's ceding of Florida in 1819. Jacksonville's first charter, creating a town government, was approved by the Florida Legislative Council on Feb. 9, 1832. Jacksonville's first mayor was Ulster Scot descendant William Mills.
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