Today in Keys History
1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4 and walked on the beach returned home and bathed. At 7:30 a.m. barometer 29.62, thermometer 86, wind east southeast 2, clouds 4. The schooner Dart came in from Havana at 7 a.m. Gave Peter Crusoe the bill of sale for Daniel to record and also made an inventory of the boy and piano as Matildaâs separate property and signed it myself as there is no one specified in the statute by whom the inventory shall be signed. The man who was sick with yellow fever died at the hospital this morning. Hatty, Charley and Annie went on board the ship J...
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