ALBERT JAMES HENDRY, Private, Florida Mounted Volunteers, discharge document. PIONEER family, pre-Civil War May 10, 1860. Record of Hillsborough County Florida 3rd Seminole Indian War. Partially printed historical doc signed by Justice of the Peace Joseph Howell and naming Captain Leroy G. Lesley as his commanding officer, stationed at Fort Meade. A. J. Hendry was one of approx. 700 volunteers from Hernando, Hillsborough, and Manatee counties mustered to help quell the recurrence of hostilities created by Indian Relocation. Verso having the seal for Hillsborough County, FL., with a handwritten statement from Clerk of the Circuit Court, J.M. Hayman, a Reverend who established the First Baptist Church of Tampa. As cattle farmers the pioneer Hendry clan helped establish Fort Myers, Hendry County, areas near Tampa on the Alafia River, and areas near Fort Meade east of the Peace River. Antique Florida ephemera memorabilia. Overall approx. 7-1/2" x 12". This item can be shipped in-house.

Overall wear including toning and spots or staining, folds taped on the verso, some losses on edges and throughout document, folds on corners. See images for more details on condition.