![]() ![]() Cosicché non solo il mio stesso ultimo capitolo, I contemporanei, tra non molto dovrà essere rititolato, e non solo un quattordicesimo andrà aggiunto, ma autori oggi viventi e attivi avranno scritto altre opere che modificheranno l’idea che ci eravamo fatta di loro, e appunto molti altri, oggi esordienti e perciò qui esclusi perché ancora in prudente “attesa di giudizio”, avranno ottenuto una loro definizione canonica o altri considerati oggi “minori” avranno acquisito la statura di “maggiori”. Ogni storia letteraria che si scrive ex novo è come un edificio abitativo che assolve più o meno bene le sue funzioni per un certo lasso di tempo, ma che lentamente risulta necessitare di un restyling, di un ammodernamento, soprattutto di un ampliamento per l’accertata, sopraggiunta ristrettezza degli spazi e l’aumento numerico dei componenti della famiglia. Leo University and studies local Native American history, believes the orphan boy may have not existed, and could have been cooked up by settlers to spur the government into getting rid of the few remaining Seminoles in the area who were not killed in the Second Seminole War or shipped west.Il genere “storia della letteratura” è infatti di per sé fra i più provvisori, transeunti, e per definizione in permanente costruzione, o per meglio dire ricostruzione. There is nothing to connect the orphan boy and the grave at Oaklawn.Įric Hannel, who teaches at St. Newspapers, property records and the federal census don’t show anyone named Hubbard in Hillsborough or the surrounding counties at the time. They were found hanging in their jail cell under mysterious circumstances after attempting to escape by starting a fire.īut the Hubbard orphan is a dead end if you’re looking for the pirate Mr. ![]() ![]() Sumner wrote that the boy never came back, but his horse did, with the boy’s suspenders braided into its mane.Ī search party went into the woods, writes Sumner, and “there was moccasin tracks and then we was satisfied it was Indians.” Three Seminole men were blamed and eventually turned over to the Hillsborough Sheriff. Sumner sent the boy, who was apparently living there, to run some kind of cattle driving errand. Army, describes the disappearance of the boy from Sumner’s ranch near what is now Dade City. Casey, “special Indian agent" for the U.S. Hubbard’s orphaned son?Ī letter from local rancher Jesse Sumner to Capt. Hubbard, those records make a reach in noting that an orphan named Daniel Hubbard was kidnapped by Seminoles in a rugged area to the north of Tampa later that same year. Hubbard was only the second person buried there. Records of the cemetery maintained by the Tampa Historical Society say Mr. A few entries later, the commissioners resolved to stop paying for free coffins for people who died broke. There are no other details, just an accounting of the $7 dollars paid out by the county to Alexander Gage, who ran the first ferry on the Hillsborough River, for Hubbard’s coffin. That makes it sound like Hubbard wasn’t alone. ![]() Hubbard was “one of the Cuban pirates found dead in the woods June 1850," read the minutes from a September 1850 Hillsborough County Commission meeting. Still, Denham said, “I know everyone wants to be able to identify pirates in Tampa, but the evidence is very sparse.” Mr. By 1850, there was commerce going on, both licit and illicit, between Tampa and Cuba.” “Remember, this was a maritime society, the only way to get to Tampa really was by water. Denham, a history professor at Florida Southern College who has written extensively about Antebellum Florida. “These kinds of people drifted in and out of Tampa in those years,” said James M. A Fort Brooke soldier fatally shot El Indio on May 21, 1850, four days past his scheduled hanging, and claimed the reward. But the word “pirate” is nowhere in the historical record. ![]()
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