THE COMPANY AND THEIR EMBARCATION.
ON Saturday, the 21st of August, 1830, a small but beautiful brig left the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, bound for Tampa Bay, Florida. On board were nine passengers; Dr. Gordon, his three children, Robert, Mary, and Frank; his sister's son, Harold McIntosh, and four servants.
Dr. Gordon was a wealthy physician, who resided, during the winter, upon the seaboard of Georgia, and during the summer, upon a farm in the mountains of that beautifully varied and thriv ing State. His wife was a Carolinian, from the neighbourhood of Charleston. Anna Gordon, his sister, married a Col. McIntosh, who, after residing for twelve years upon a plantation near the city of Montgomery, in Alabama, died, leaving