Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck

Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck is a Florida historical marker in Hobe Sound, Martin County, dedicated 1961.

Jonathan Dickinson State Park, at park entrance of, Hobe Sound

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Three miles to the east on Sept. 23, 1696, the British barkentine Reformation foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who described the trials of the group in his book, "God's Protecting Providence", the first account of Indians on the southeast coast. Attacked by Indians and driven northward, the party arrived at St. Augustine in November, 1696.

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Historical maps covering this location

1859 · Colton's Florida (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Johnson's Florida (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1932 · United States - East Coast, Florida : Bethel Shoal to Jupiter Inlet / published ... by… (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
1948 · Hobe Sound, Florida (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1949 · Hobe Sound, Florida (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Johnson's Florida (1870), 1870, covering the location of Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Johnson's Florida (1870), 1870, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Florida Historical Marker Program, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

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