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"Colonial Settlement & Early Revolutionary in Vest Florida l7p to 1779"
by Garland Taylor
COLONIAL SETTLEMENT IN WEST FLORIDA	3">3
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Settlement in this region was very slow, and in a letter trom ????iiMicola on August 1, 1776 the governor issued a strong ap-;*al for settlers. The letter runs in this manner:
Our Governour (as well as Governour Tonyn, of East Florida) has published a proclamation, offering an asylum to such who, from the present distracted situation of affairs in America, may choose to come and settle in this Province, with an offer of one hundred acres of land fnr the master, and the same for the mistress of every family, and fifty acres for every child and servant, and free of quitrent for a certain number of years, and even more land than the above, provided it shall appear that they are able to cultivate it. He has offered to any person, prntis, to cut down timber from his Majesty?s woods, for the making ?Jmtin Winsor, Westward Movement (Boston, 1897), 32.
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After the Treaty of Paris Sir William Johnson was anxious to make the lower 7*rt of Illinois the seat of a British eolony. Thi9 was to check or to act as a barrier fur trade which was carried on with New Orleans. The commander at Fort '-?rtre* had been successful in this, but the Spanish were allowed to go up the Illi-and Wabash rivers with impunity. General Gage asked Don Ulloa, the governor *1 N?cw Orleans, to prevent this, and later sent armed boats to patrol the river to the outlaws. There was also proposed a line of English forts along the east of the Mississippi; the acquiring of lands from tho Indians and settling soldiers U.tm; and the creation of a land company, which would agree to settle an occupant ** rtiij hundred acres. Simultaneous with tins plan General Lyman was writing to ^Ihurne concerning schemes to .plant colonies all along the Mississippi from West r*Hdii to the Falls of Saint Anthony. Haldimand, who wrb at Pensacola, sent a plan L General Gage in New York who sent it on to England. This plan proposed a *'J>Ury colony at the Natchez and advocated the making of small grants of land to Louisiana French along the River, in order to induce 1hem to Bettle there and ? tfcrape servitude to the Spanish. New Orleans in tho 1770'b contained about four people. The inhabitants of the outskirts were chiefly Germans and Acadians *i*'-Ured along the river on both sides nearly to the Iberville. Including these the 'H?liUtion ig estimated at ten thousand. They had built a rather unsubstantial levee intended about fifty miles up and down the river shores. It was no uncommon **CM to see TonicaB and Choctaws in the town bringing fish, fruit, and game to barter ' r brandy and trinkets. The more active merchants were rarely in town except to f ?**tni?)i their supplies; they were usually up the river in March of peltry. Often * *.T Wintered on the St. Francis River, which empties into tho western side of the ?^'-Sippi about ninety miles below the Ohio. From here they sent their furs and **!- meats to New Orleans for market. During the Summer trading expeditions wero the upper region of the Mississippi, the Missouri, and among the Sioux we*>t ^ L.,kc Superior. The English suspected that thenc people instigated the Indians, but ly were fissured by a Colonel Robertson, who hud come from New Orleans that such 115 tot the case.
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