Person:Richard Hackley (3)

Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book E: Crozier
£400 " Jeremiah Morton and Richard S. Hackley, admrs., de bonus non, with the will annexed of Robert Jackson, decd.," etc., with Robert Brooke, sec. Apr. 2, 1793.

U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current about Richard Shippey Hackley
Name: Richard Shippey Hackley
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1770
Birth Place: Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA
Death Date: 1843
Death Place: Virginia, USA
Cemetery: Cedar Grove Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Norfolk, Norfolk City, Virginia, USA
Has Bio?: Y

An biography by Kimberly McDaniel of Richard S. Hackley is on his Find-a-Grave memorial page here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103706353. Permission has been granted to post the bio on this site.
"Richard Shippey Hackley was a successful and well-traveled merchant, who resided at various times in Fredericksburg, Norfolk, Richmond, New York, Florida and Spain. He was the son of James Hackley of Fauquier county, Virginia and his wife Anne Stubblefield.

"By 1789 he was an established merchant in New York. He suffered the death of his first wife, Anne Jackson Hackley and returned to Virginia. He married 2nd, Harriet Randolph, the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph. Harriet was one of Dolley Madison's best friends.

"In 1806, Jefferson appointed Hackley US Consul at St. Lucia, Spain, and in 1807 he was appointed US Consul at Cadiz, Spain, the latter being a more prestigious position at that time.

"Richard had claims to 12 million acres of uncultivated land near present day Tampa, Florida. He was deeded this Florida land by the Duke of Alagon on 29 May 1819, who previously had been granted this tract by the King of Spain by order dated 17 Dec 1817. (This claim has been well documented and was asserted by a number of the heirs of Richard for a number of years following his death.) In a case brought before the US Supreme Court by Lot Clark, David Clarkson, Joseph D. Beers, Andrew Talcott, Brantz Mayer and Harriet Hackley against Joseph Addison Braden, in December 1853, this claim was finally settled in 1908. It was determined that prior to ratification of the treaty transferring Florida from Spain to the US, the King of Spain annulled the grant to Alagon in response to concerns of the US negotiators. Based primarily on this fact, the court upheld the findings of a lower court, determining that Richard's heirs derived no title from the US in said land."

Ms McDaniel gives her sources as:
1. Family memories - not the most reliable, but initiated the search - the case was initiated in 1853 and the last ajudication was in 1905.
2. U.S. Supreme Court: 57 US 635, DOE, et al V Braden.
3. U.S. Supreme Court: 196 U.S. 100 (1905), SCOTT v. CAREW, SALLIE FIELD SCOTT, Eliza Madison Scott, Harriet B. Jones, et al., Appts., v. LIZZIE W. CAREW, W. W. Hampton, E. R. Gunby, et al, No. 52.
4. Brown, Cantor. Tampa Before the Civil War, University of Tampa, 1999 (ISBN-13:978-1879852648l

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find A Grave
   Memorial# 90993243.

   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90993243

2.   Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. Historic Court Records
   Scrogham vs Early 1829 ID 257-19.

   Record says "Richard S. Hackley married Nancy Jackson, dau of William Jackson".
   Also "Family Hariot Hackley, wife of Richard S. Hackley"