The Old Country
1842
Seminole War Over
By the beginning of 1842 the war had generally settled down to Indian families and small bands hiding in one spot or another, in pursuit by troops, with occasional surprise attacks on the soldiers. Lieutenant Willam T. Sherman said it was absurd to call the raids upon the Indians a war. Although no treaty was ever signed, the Second Seminole War was declared over on August 14, 1842 and what remained of the Seminoles were either moved to a reservation out west or had retreated deep into the Everglades of southern Florida.[1] With the Indians officially “removed”, their land in Alachua was made available to settlers through the Armed Occupation Act of 1842.
The News, 1842-08-27
In the last sentence, the “pork” was the “rations to the settler” which Levy, being Jewish, are not supposed to eat.
On September 20, 1842 a post office was commissioned in Micanopy with Horace Merry as postmaster.
[1] There was a much smaller Third Seminole War in southern Florida that begin in December of 1855 and went into 1858 when the chief Billy Bowlegs accepted an offer of peace and agreed to migrate west. In early 1859 the government declared and end to the Third Seminole War saying that only about 100 Seminoles remained in Florida although this later proved to be much too low with those that remain moving deeper in to the Everglades and avoided contact with settlers.