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Conch Town: A WPA Photographic Exhibit
In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the State Archives of Florida is proud to present this re-creation of a 1939 photo exhibit by the Florida Art Project of the WPA on the Conchs (Bahamian immigrants) of Riviera Beach, Florida.

Papers Concerning the Will of Zephaniah Kingsley

This collection contains two documents concerning the contesting of Zephaniah Kingsley's will.

Kingsley was a wealthy planter and slave owner in Northeast Florida. His heirs were his wife, an African American named Anna M.J. Kingsley, and their children.

One document is the petition to the will made by Kingsley’s sister Martha McNeill while the other document is the executors' response (Benjamin A. Putnam and Kingsley B. Gibbs) to the petition of Anna M. J. Kingsley, widow of Zephaniah Kingsley. While incomplete and inconclusive, these documents reveal the precarious and dynamic status of free blacks in antebellum Florida.