1822: Congress denied a land grant to the East Florida Coffee Land Association. The group was asking for a 23,000-acre tract that included Key Largo “for the purpose of erecting
"The captain goes down with the ship" is a naval tradition implying the captain holds the ultimate responsibility for everyone, and that if it goes sinks, he will do his best to save everyone before himself.
1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 6 and walked the piazza till sunrise when I read the papers. At 9:40 a.m. barometer 29.78, thermometer 65, wind northeast