The Florida Armed Occupation Act of 1842 (5 Stat. 502) was passed as an incentive to grow the population of Florida. The Act granted 160 acres (0.6 km2)...

Hammond, father and son, did not want their assistance. The occupation began when Bundy led an armed party to the refuge headquarters following a peaceful public...

Census. The first settlers came to the area after Congress passed the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 at the end of the Seminole Wars during the Administration...

along the west end of Lake Holden in July 1843 by the terms of the Armed Occupation Act. Aaron Jernigan became Orange County's first state representative...

Territory where he was the first to receive a permit for land under the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 in Mosquito County (today that area is St. Lucie County)...

uneasy truce. Tensions over new settlement in the state under the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 south of Tampa led to renewed hostilities, and the Third...

settlers were encouraged into the area due to the passing of the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 by the United States federal government. Twenty-two men filed...

reserved occupation (also known as essential services) is an occupation considered important enough to a country that those serving in such occupations are...

ranchos. In 1842, the Armed Occupation Act was passed, which deeded land to settlers who were willing to cultivate land in Florida. The act brought settlers...

the United States government began issuing land grants under the Armed Occupation Act to Americans who were willing to settle the area. Several of these...

Florida...A Short History to 1955 An Act to organise a county to be called the County of Fayette (53). 1832. An Act, more accurately to define the boundaries...

conclusion of the Second Seminole War, the U.S. Congress passed the Armed Occupation Act of 1842, forcing surviving natives at Ahapopka to abandon their village...

Service, and the Canadian Rangers. Under the National Defence Act, the Canadian Armed Forces are an entity separate and distinct from the Department...

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to...

covered by the Act either, primarily because although it is an armed service, it also has a maritime law enforcement mission. The title of the Act comes from...

a tree in his yard. The area's population grew after the Federal Armed Occupation Act of 1842 offered 160 acres (0.65 km2) to anyone who would bear arms...

was opened to settlement in 1842 with the passing of the federal Armed Occupation Act. Early settlements included the Manatee Colony led by Colonel Samuel...

fort's occupation by the military, and so he was most likely doing business with the fort. After the war, in accordance with the Armed Occupation Act, James...

[page needed] The Armed Occupation Act of 1842 facilitated European-American settlement of the Florida peninsula in the 1840s, although the act prohibited settlement...

it was created while Japan was under occupation, the origins of the Act have nothing to do with the occupation forces. It appears to have been the brainchild...

1842, the United States Congress had enacted the Armed Occupation Act, a precursor of the Homestead Act, to increase white settlement in Florida as a way...

fraternity in the United States). August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part, of the...

European settlers in the area were encouraged to settle there by the Armed Occupation Act of 1842. During the 1840s and 1850s, the United States government...

Bankruptcy Act of 1841, ch. 9, 5 Stat. 440 September 4, 1841: Preemption Act of 1841, ch. 16, 5 Stat. 453 August 4, 1842: Armed Occupation Act, 5 Stat. 502...

Richard K. Call is appointed Territorial Governor of Florida. 1842: Armed Occupation Act provides for land grants in unsettled parts of Florida. 1843 January...

Lands Acts (1861) Canada: Dominion Lands Act (1872) United States: Florida Armed Occupation Act (1842), Homestead Act (1862) Classical liberalism Entitlement...

Seminole War veteran and pioneer who, under the provisions of the Armed Occupation Act, established the first permanent settlement in what is now Sarasota...

Hamilton Disston. He has also written about Pembroke Pines and the Armed Occupation Act of 1842. He translated an 1856 letter from Smith Mowry to Jefferson...

contract, although it would displace numerous squatters. Florida's Armed Occupation Act of 1842 had granted land to squatters in order to force the local...

301 by Benjamin Moody and others who came to claim land under the "Armed Occupation Act of Florida" which was passed in 1842 and granted 160 acres of land...