genealogical writings by Greg Carter

Antonia Paula Bonelly

A narrative history of the 1802 attack on the Bonelly plantation by Miccosukee raiders, the two-year captivity of a teen-aged girl, and the complicated political mission to ransom the hostages.

Adolphus Newton Pacetty

Retracing the steps of a young Floridian of the 1850s, the spirit of pioneering, and living in a state of perpetual war provoked by federal Indian policy.
A memoir of the Civil War by a reluctant participant, who escaped a Federal vessel at Key West in 1861, and saw his captor drowned at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864.
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Maria Bonelly and her children were taken from this farm land
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Adolphus Pacetty managed Capo's Bath House on the bay front

The Monsons

800,000 Norwegians immigrated to North America between 1825 and 1925. One of them was Anton Bengt Osmundsen, who found his way to Saint Augustine, met a Menorcan girl, and bought a house at 56 Marine Street.

Richard Henry Jones

Richard Henry Jones was a Civil War-era ancestor, but he did his military service for Britain in the Crimea. He changed his name when he landed in the United States in 1869, and disappeared into northeast Florida.

Sisters

Thomas Kirkman Jr wrote a memoir of his boyhood life in and around 56 Marine Street, and stories he heard from his mother and aunts about life in Saint Augustine in the middle of the twentieth century.
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Monson House on Bay Street
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Richard Henry Jones
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Old Lady
A walk through generations that colonized East Florida, developed Saint Augustine's Menorcan culture, and found an American home 1768-1867.
The history of the structure at 56 Marine Street in Saint Augustine—from its Spanish origins in 1763, through the century of use by my family, and its 1980s reconstruction.
A clearinghouse of historic photographs, postcards, stereoscopes, and artwork covering the history of Saint Augustine.
A simplified chart, focussing on six generations of Saint Augustine ancestors; and portraits of the family.

A note on spelling and proper names
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