Download PDF by Kenneth H. Beeson Jr.: Fromajadas and Indigo: The Minorcan Colony in Florida

By Kenneth H. Beeson Jr.

With nice anticipation, greater than twelve hundred settlers--the majority from the Mediterranean island of Minorca--arrived at the jap shore of Florida, south of St. Augustine, in 1768 to start a brand new lifestyles on the colony of latest Smyrna. regardless of the preliminary successes of the colony, political strife and insufficient financing urged the colonists into dire straights. Fleeing the depressing dwelling stipulations and ruthless maltreatment of colony overseers, the colonists finally sought safe haven in St. Augustine, the place the governor granted them asylum in 1777.

For greater than 200 years the descendants of the surviving colonists have shaped a inventive and gifted section of St. Augustine's inhabitants. From the 600 plus that made the stroll from New Smyrna, there at the moment are over fifteen thousand descendants dwelling within the St. Augustine zone this present day. This publication finds the heritage of those interesting humans for the 1st time.

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